MISTI Global Teaching Labs (GTL)

MIT’s Global Teaching Labs (GTL) program recruits top MIT students who want to actively participate in the Institute’s experiential approach to learning. GTL challenges you to learn by teaching—synthesizing and presenting your knowledge, working in teams, and communicating with peers from different cultural backgrounds.

For three to four weeks each January, GTL participants travel abroad to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses -- and sometimes other topics including entrepreneurship and debate -- to high school students. This high-impact program attracts several hundred highly accomplished candidates from across the Institute. Selected participants are trained about teaching materials, platforms and communication techniques, and introduced to the education system and culture of their host country.