Benefits of Global Travel

Global Education allows students to appreciate the differences and similarities of cultures: it helps to increase their knowledge of our precious world, increases interaction with peers, highlights important world issues, and encourages them to become active learners and advocates. Global travel will bring into reality lessons learned in the classroom and helps to develop student empathy for other cultures, as well as a greater understanding of political and economic forces that impact society. Students will develop a greater sensitivity to the challenges faced by English-as-a-Second Language students within their own school as they try to communicate with Japanese counterparts. In addition to improved communication skills, they will also develop critical thinking skills.

Global issues such as education, the environment, energy, food, gender issues, globalization, water sustainability, health, natural disasters, peace and war, rice cultivation, rural development and volunteerism can be taught as cross-curricular topics in many subjects.