Celebrates Career and Technical Education Month
Career and Technical Education Month® is a public awareness campaign organized by ACTE and sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders, held each February to celebrate Career and Technical Education® (CTE) and to raise awareness of the importance of...
The importance of fostering critical thinking in students
Critical thinking is a fundamental skill for life and success in any field. However, it is a skill that is often overlooked in traditional education. It is important for educators to foster critical thinking in their students, as it...
Inclusive Solution: Transforming education and reducing the school gap worldwide on Pi(π) Day.
Today, March 14, is Pi (π) Day, a date celebrated annually around the world to honor this fundamental mathematical constant. Pi, represented by the Greek letter π, is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter....
7 Puerto Rican women
International Women's Day is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions, achievements and struggles of women around the world. In Puerto Rico, women have left an indelible mark on history, especially in the field of education. From the...
10 amazing ways to celebrate love and friendship day at your school that you never imagined!
Love and Friendship Day is a special occasion to celebrate positive relationships and camaraderie at school. Here are 10 things teachers and principals can do to make sure the day is memorable and meaningful...
Transforming education in Puerto Rico: How to involve parents and caregivers in mathematics learning.
Education in Puerto Rico is a critical issue of key importance for the country's development. In order for students to succeed in their learning, it is essential to involve parents and caregivers in the educational process. Developing new potential structures that...
Re-evaluation of how we evaluate technology-related career development opportunities.
Abstract As virtual education and virtual jobs become the "new" reality, most professional development opportunities require technology skills. But how should we evaluate them? Typically, we measure the number of activities or contact hours offered, the...
EXCELLENT INITIATIVE FOR THIS POPULATION - PREPARING STUDENTS WITH FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY FOR THE WORLD OF WORK
They were provided with tools in the areas of entrepreneurship, chemical processes, environmental quality, electronics and robotics. One hundred young people from the Special Education Program and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act successfully completed a project of the Administration for Vocational Rehabilitation (ARV), which was designed to provide...
Offering work entrepreneurship experience to young people with functional diversity
The Summer of Occupational Exploration provided tools in the areas of entrepreneurship, chemical processes, environmental quality, electronics and robotics A hundred young people from the Special Education Program and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act successfully completed the Summer of Occupational Exploration...
Education leaders to share their perspectives on innovation in education
Seven former secretaries of education, plus the current acting secretary, will be the protagonists of a discussion organised by Fundación Agenda Ciudadana and Echar Pa'Lante A few years ago, the World Economic Forum began making projections of how many employees could be replaced by artificial intelligence programming around the world....
INTERFair 2021 and GEEO
Remote Event! Global Education Exchange Opportunities, Inc. (GEEO) will be participating and sharing its available openings (internships and externships) on Thursday, October 14, 2021. InterFair is counting on its faculty, directors and deans to coordinate with their students and invite them to...
Education for Justice: The 2nd Annual Anchin Center Conference
After guiding students through a global pandemic that exposed so many long-standing inequalities that exist in the education system and serve as a barrier to achievement for all students, teachers and administrators are returning to the world of education...
Creating Conditions for Powerful Technology Use
September 8, 2021 | By Carol Lopez and Odelia Younge Instructional technology is a critical component of teaching and learning in today's world. Technology, when aligned to research-based practices, supports teachers in delivering instruction that is adapted to meet the needs of all students. However,...
Global Education Exchange Opportunities for our youth with disabilities, in alliance with the Associated Secretary of Special Education and the Puerto Rico Vocational Rehabilitation Administration.
By: María Ortiz Mojica, MEd., PEV and ARV Project Director Reiterating its commitment to contribute to the strengthening of special education programs for youth (ages 14 to 21 inclusive) with disabilities in transition, Global Education Exchange Opportunities, Inc. (GEEO) has...
Global Learning Innovation Institute: A Dynamic Response to Pandemic Outcomes
By: Ana Milena Lucumi, Ed.D. Innovation Learning Design and Results Manager In a time of extended quarantine for the country's public and public schools, school communities were faced with a surprising reality with the knowledge of teamwork, crisis management, technological tools and the...
Our educators are satisfied with the new professional self-learning modality: Micro credentials.
By: Judith Santos Guisona, Ed.D. Director of Micro Credentialing at GEEO PR As part of high quality professional development, educators in Puerto Rico's public education system had the opportunity to complete micro credentialing to strengthen their competencies in the use of the micro credentials....
Educators at the Forefront with Micro Credentials
The education scenario for the 2020-2021 academic year was an unusual one, marked by new challenges and big lessons. By way of an emergency, face-to-face education was replaced by inescapable remote education. Educators, abruptly, had to adopt new methodologies of teaching and learning....
Coaches Use Micro-credentials to Support 21st Century Tech Skills
The vision of Alberto Meléndez Torres High School is to develop the technological skills necessary for the 21st Century for students, teachers and the community at large. This also includes achieving and transforming educational excellence, access and equity in education.
Technology competency results available to teachers
During the past school year, the teaching staff of the Department of Education (DE) participated in various training and professional development activities and evaluative measures in order to develop technopedagogical competencies and skills for the creation of learning scenarios tailored to the needs of the students....
Celebrating our Flag
Global Education Exchange Opportunities, Inc. (GEEO) joined the celebration of the Institute of Culture of Manatí and citizens of the town commemorated the flag of Puerto Rico and its creator Don Antonio Vélez Alvarado, a native of Manatí. The activity began at ten o'clock in the...
What the pandemic gave to Puerto Rican education
Education is considered by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the basic pillars for a country's economic growth and competitiveness. At its meeting in January 2021, the WEF anticipated that the fourth industrial revolution will demand a pro-education labour infrastructure...
Department of Education teachers will be able to see the growth of their technology skills
Educators and support staff in the public school system will be able this week and next week to complete the Technology Use and Perception Survey (TUPS), which will validate the effectiveness of targeted professional development initiatives and the...
PRDE educators take up the challenge of digital certifications
PRESS RELEASE PRDE educators accepted the challenge of digital certifications Educators in Puerto Rico's public education system are committed to optimizing their technopedagogical competencies. Thanks to a collaborative effort between Global Education Exchange Opportunities, Inc. (GEEO),...
GEEO congratulates SM Publishing and the Private School Association of Puerto Rico
"On behalf of Global Education Exchange Opportunities, Inc. (GEEO) I would like to congratulate SM Publishing and the Association of Private Schools of Puerto Rico (AEP) for their literacy catapulting of the desire to learn and optimize our ability to teach online. The conference presented...
COMMUNICATIONS Begin development and reinforcement of digital competencies of teachers in the public system
As part of the recently announced project of the Department of Education of Puerto Rico (DEPR), DE-Innova, all teachers of the public education system will have the opportunity to participate in an assessment process that will allow them to develop their technological knowledge profile and obtain a Technology Plan....
Press Release - PBL Education Forum August 2017
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Next Thursday, August 17, 2017, the event ¨Educando en un Mundo de Aprendizaje Basado en Proyectos¨ will take place, aimed at supporting professionals in the field of education in both the public and private sectors....
Formative Assessment as a process to optimize the teaching and learning process of mathematics at the intermediate level in Puerto Rico.
Abstract Student achievement in mathematics declines drastically after fifth grade in Puerto Rico according to the results of the standardized tests Measurement and Evaluation for Educational Transformation (META-PR)[1]. The Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) lacks the...
Let's travel for our schools!
Let's taste the achievements of our students in their respective school communities during the 2013-2014 school year. GEEO as an educational services company, offers participating public and private schools Transformation Workshops to teachers, parents and students. During the school year, the...
Department of Education teachers will be able to see the growth of their technology skills
Educators and support staff in the public school system will be able this week and next week to complete the Technology Use and Perception Survey (TUPS), which will validate the effectiveness of targeted professional development initiatives and the...