The Peace Corps works in communities around the world to contribute to areas of education and development, integrating innovative teaching methodologies, critical thinking in the classroom, and issues like health education and environmental awareness with English, math, science, and other subjects. The Peace Corps provides ongoing training to its volunteers in the areas of teaching, training, and community issues. Teachers may find resources here about lesson planning, classroom management, developing materials, and working in low-resource contexts.
Peace Corps provides many resources to help teachers develop courses on a variety of teaching and learning topics such as water, health, the environment, and other community issues.
Educators use these materials to teach subjects as varied as language arts, social studies, geography, environmental education, and international economics. Many teachers find that by increasing awareness of cultural diversity through World Wise Schools resources, students come to better value the rich heritage and broad representation of peoples within their own communities.
Teachers will find a rich variety of lesson plans and activities here, all tried and tested by Peace Corps Volunteers in communities around the world. Find a new recipe, read a folk tale, practice new vocabulary in a different language, or paint a mural, all while learning and having fun.