This website will help to increase your understanding of why global education is important while providing a plethora of resources to help you get started on your global journey. My travel blog will be a collection of reflections during my abroad global education experience. Make sure you scroll through the photo essays provided. My goal is to share with my Moroccan students and host teacher what it is like to live in Alton, New Hampshire. Likewise, I will compile a similar photo essay for my students, friends and my community about life in Morocco.

Vicky Sweezy has been teaching high school life sciences for 18 years, 14 of which have been in Alton, NH at Prospect Mountain High School, a small rural school lof approximately 500 students. Vicky teaches all levels of biology from general studies to Advanced Placement. In addition to biology, she teaches electives such as forensics, emergency response and bioethics.

She attended Paul Smiths College and graduated from the University of New England in 1993 with a dual Bachelors of Science degree in Biology and Environmental Science. In 2007 she received her M.Ed. from Franklin Pierce University. Vicky is active in her school and community and has served as a class advisor and Fire and EMS Explorer adviser. She is currently the science department's Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Leader and the local NEA president.

Vicky has two young adult children. Her hobbies include cooking, reading, cycling and camping.

She strongly believes that examining topics through the lens of a global perspective is crucial to gain a complete understanding of the issues. She asserts that studying the inter-connectness of people across the world and their relationship to their environments is the path to finding holistic solutions. Vicky will be teaching a global studies class in the winter of 2017. Her participation in TCG will provide her with the in-depth focus and first-hand experience on global education so that she can help prepare her students to become thoughtful and engaged citizens of the world.

This site is not an official U.S. Department of State blog. The views and information presented are the grantee's own and do not represent the Teachers for Global Classrooms Program, IREX, or the U.S. Department of State.