monteverde, costa rica teaching internship

CIEE is proud to provide a meaningful and unique placement opportunity for recent high school graduates who are interested in both international education and environmental studies through a limited number of internships at the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Serving as the playground of this school is the largest private nature reserve in Costa Rica, Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde. This 13 kilometer forest is home to thousands of species of plants and hundreds of bird and mammal species and is a prime example of the diverse flora and fauna that defines Costa Rica. This internship marries the love for youth development and environmental education as the Cloud Forest School believes that environmental education is an ongoing process of cultivating an understating of the natural world through the exploration of ecological, personal, cultural, and economic interrelationships. Land stewardship and in-class activities are integrated into the academic curriculum and serve to create a series of building blocks, each leading to the next level of understanding and, ultimately, to ecologically responsible attitudes and actions.

Cloud Forest School students feel a keen sense of responsibility as stewards of the forest. They are aware of the fragility as well as the biological significance of the cloud forest. In school, they study landscape, biodiversity, and conservation in many different ways; and as a teacher intern, you will incorporate the physical surroundings into every facet of the bilingual curriculum from science to art to literature.

what will your story be in costa rica?

Immerse yourself in exotic flora and fauna while becoming a part of a local community. You'll work with local children at a school that in housed in the largest private nature reserve in Costa Rica.

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