GEIST invites education and administrative experts from home and abroad in national and international conferences for knowledge sharing and ensuring sustainable and better education for the world.
In order to generate the future leaders, GEIST organizes yearly and monthly workshops on various skillset and capacity building which are time-responsive.
Education is the one of the most important are of the development. Being a teacher headed non profit organization, GEIST International Foundation has taken a diverse range of activities to engage, inspire and empower the teachers, students and all kind of stakeholders in education globally. We designed many flagship events, most of which already reached to its popularity. These includes conference, professional development initiatives, Olympiads at national and international level, exchange programs and many more.
Climate change is now a reality to the whole world. Different countries and communities are facing different types of challenges and implementing a wide range of adaptation interventions. Different studies showed that empowering teachers, students and communities can be beneficial to address the issues related to climate change. As a part of this GEIST International Foundation run many activities to address the issue which includes webinar, panel discussion, youth dialogue, arranging empowering sessions with youth followed by Olympiads, poster and power point presentation and research.
Science education plays a key role in shaping education. Different studies showed that science education in developing countries are facing some issues and drawing attraction students to study science. Introducing different avenues of STEAM in the GEIST partner countries, this initiative aims to engage, inspire and empower both science teachers and students towards science education in the coming days. A series of initiatives like webinar, panel discussion, Olympiad, action research and conference have been taken so far to reach the goal.
Nutrition is the important health issue and one of the supporting factors that ensure good health for a quality study. Proper knowledge and practices on basic foods, nutrition and food habits can allow students to a good and healthy food practice that will ensure nutrition balance. GEIST has taken this initiative based on its findings through its partner school initiatives and creating a positive impact. This initiative enables to get basic knowledge on nutrition, healthy food practices through Olympiad, panel discussion, workshops and awareness campaign.
Global citizenship is now a reality. Gathering the knowledge on cross boarder education, culture, environment, policies enables a teacher and student to enhance their knowledge and network and enable thinking in a wide spectrum. In all its international events, GEIST always promote cultural competence among its stakeholders and expanding GEIST family of sustainability. International Olympiads, Conference, Research collaboration are the key components to ensure this goal.
Professional development are the integral part of teaching. There are many ways to address the issue and GEIST has created some initiatives to its members and stakeholders for enhancing the professional development. Workshop, symposium, conference, webinars and networking session at national and international level helping our members and participants to develop their professional networking and knowledge.
Girls are behind in many issues of learning paths in the developing countries. Thus, this initiative of GEIST allows different activities to inspire girls towards education, STEAM education, leadership development, research and technology knowledge. Moreover, issues like entrepreneurship and higher studies sessions focusing girls helps them to know the deep sense of understanding on the specific topic and plan accordingly. Program like Girls Never Look Book, a funded project of IREX, designed and implemented by GEIST created tremendous effect among the girls of rural community.
Technology knowledge: A recent study among the girls’ students of the GEIST partner school reflects that girls’ students are lacking behind on technology knowledge, practices and taking challenge on it. Thus, GEIST initiative of Tech-Girls enables to empower 200 girls nationwide towards technology knowledge development and use of it in their regular learning cycle.
Women entrepreneurship: As a part of Girls empowerment initiatives, GEIST arranges few sessions on the basics of entrepreneurship, how it works, developing entrepreneur ideas and design projects leading towards entrepreneurship. Finally, a total of 100 female students from 4 schools were empowered on this issues who started their work on this field. We believe that a few oft them will become some successful entrepreneur.