One of the most commonly cited reasons for leaving the teaching profession is unpaid time working for teachers, the majority of which is spent on lesson planning. We want to solve this problem by offering global citizenship education resources to primary school teachers that they can implement across multiple subjects.
Our innovation is a web-application that teachers can use before the classroom to lesson plan, during the classroom to engage students and at home to assign lessons and activities in order to hone cross-disciplinary skills and allow students of all learning styles to flourish!
Touchable Earth has 3 types of content:
- Kids-first videos from kids in over 25 communities from around the world talking about one thing regarding their culture (food, play, school, family etc.)
- Interactive activities (wordcould, games, interactive videos, drag the word, crosswords and more)
- Extra resources (we call it the treasure trove) - discussion points, printables, offline activity suggestions and a lot more
our team of learning designers works closely with teachers to curriculum align all of the above. Teachers can create their own lessons picking anything they like.
That way global citizenship becomes part of the curriculum instead of an "extra subject" that adds extra work!
With very minimal email marketing efforts in the last 4 months we have a waitlist of over 50,000 students and educators that want to start using Touchable Earth
Email Giota at giota@touchableearth.org
we have launched an MVP and are currently in alpha testing mode, slowly inviting users from our waitlist
