PDK International Travel Program 2024 News!

PDK International Travel Program:
Bring the World to Your Students

Vietnam Summer 2024

July 18-29, 2024!

  • The Travel scholarship has closed, for 2024! Apply next year to receive up to $1,000 towards next year’s trip!
  • Have questions? Reach out to us at travel@pdkintl.org.

Ready to see the world? Join us in Vietnam in the summer of 2024!

All Traveler Registration

To review this years trip itinerary, pricing, and how to sign up, take a look at our informational power point.

Website Registration Instructions

Member Registration

  1. Visit our website at: https://www.etadventures.com/
    Click the green button in the top right hand corner “Log in to myETA”
    Trip Code: pdk24
    Password: sgntrip24
  2. Click on the Red Button that says “Make a new reservation”
  3. Complete the information and continue to follow the instructions to complete your registration.
  4. Once you have completed your reservation, you will come to a page with tabs at the top, click on the “Passengers” tab.
  5. On the Passengers tab, click on the “Waiver Incomplete View/Edit” button.
  6. Completed all required information in the Waiver. You can log out and log back in to finish the waiver at a later date using the reservation information emailed to you.

Important: New changes to traveling with PDK International in 2024:

  • Unlike our tours in the past, all participants who sign up and attend this trip will have all meals and excursions included in the total price. They will not require any additional fees, including daily tour guide tips. (This does not include our full-time tour guide)
  • Road trip flights will start from IAD, and we will all travel on the same aircraft to prevent confusion upon arrival, participants missing times due to individual delays, etc.
  • We must have a minimum of 20 travelers this year for the trip to run if we cannot meet that minimum the trip will not run.

Benefits of the program:
By participating in the Travel Program, you will become a PDK Global Educator. This means that you can list this as one qualifier for Distinguished Educators Award application. After completing a trip, you will gain a deeper understand of your role as an educator on a global scale by learning about ecotourism through guided readings, videos, and a series of video meetings. This learning is meant to be informative yet brief to fit into your busy lives as an educator.

  • Visit schools abroad and meet key community stakeholders and elected officials
  • Get to know other teachers around the globe and educators from across the country
  • Share ideas and knowledge with other educators
  • Develop a deeper understanding of different cultures to bring back to your students and communities
  • Flexible payment plans
  • Free nights to explore on your own
  • Guided learning throughout the cities
  • Single tour guide from the moment you land until the moment you depart
  • Private tour ensures your comfort and safety

Thank you to the members of the PDK International Travel Program task force members for making this program possible!

Personally, I grew in the relationships I was able to develop with the other teachers. They have a wealth of knowledge that I now have access to.

New friends, new ideas, a broader vision of my world in THE world.

This trip presented me with new insights to consider when teaching my students.

I was extremely fortunate to take part in the 2017 PDK International Study Tour in Germany.  The tour had a rich emphasis on history and some of the many highlights included the Marienplatz in Munich, Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg, Austria, the site of the 1945 Potsdam Conference, and the Brandenburg Gate.  The tour also offered some sobering reminders such as an excursion to Dachau Concentration Camp, visits to the Documentation Centers in Munich and Nuremberg, and a tour of the Wannsee Conference Museum.

My favorite part of the tour was a visit to an all-girl school (ages 10 to 16) called the Anne Frank Realschule. The gracious hosts were a diverse variety of second-generation German students whose parents came from the Congo, Croatia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Georgia (former USSR).  The knowledge and wisdom gained from the 2017 International Study Tour in Germany will help my future students and I better face the future

The PDK International Travel Program is supported by the PDK Educational Foundation.

History of the PDK International Travel Program

Gerald H. Read began the PDK International Travel Seminar Program in 1961 with its first trip to the Soviet Union. Nearly 20 years later, Mr. Read and his wife established the Read International Travel Scholarship to provide financial assistance to PDK members who wanted to take advantage of the travel program. During the decades that Mr. Read led these trips, PDK members traveled to 65 nations, a tradition we have proudly continued into current times. The Read International Travel Scholarship continues to support educators experiencing the world through the renamed PDK Study Tour program.

2016 Peru                               2017 Germany                              2018 Panama
2022 Spain                             2023 South Africa

To ensure that this program continues to be a substantial benefit to PDK members a 2019 trip was not run, and the gap year was used to convene a task force of PDK members who advised on how the program should be updated. Each year PDK International has continued to fund educators international travel and bring the world back to students and communities.

We hope you join us!

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