The Albatross Foundation has developed programs with United States Universities which have brought benefits to young people in North and South America.

"Galapagos Marine Ecology for Teachers" is a three-week summer course, designed for secondary school science teachers by the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.

Combining active learning with research and work with local students, and culminating with a cruise of the islands' visitor sites, the twelve participants gain 3 units of Graduate Credit and an unforgettable experience which enhances their teaching practice.

Click here for the course web site, and to make your reservation for 2007.

Photographs from these exciting programs can be found here.

The Oregon Writing Project at Willamette University aims to strengthen teachers' work with second language learners. Six teachers traveled to the Galapagos Islands in July 2004, studied together, and taught English as volunteers at the Escuela Naval on Isla San Cristobal.

They also studied and practised Spanish in an effort to be able to use Spanish in thier own classrooms and to develop a first-hand sense of how it feels to be learning a second language while immersed in a foreign culture.

Click here for their own account of this experience.

Educational institutions from any part of the world are welcome to discuss their ideas for joint projects with the Albatross Foundation - email us!