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Be a part of this teaching adventure!

Target® is the sponsor of the Target® Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ Program. Visit Target’s website. Click here.

Click here to meet the Target® 2011 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ Martha Dobson.

Click here to view Martha’s lesson plans for your classroom. (Scroll through the lessons or use the menu bar on the side of the page to find specific lessons.)

Click here to read Martha’s journal and blog. (Click on the article title to read the full article.)

Martha Dobson - Target® 2011 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™

Trade in your coat and ‘teacher shoes’ for extreme weather gear as you brave the arctic elements, temperatures far below zero, during the Last Great Race®. Spend about 3 ½ – 4 weeks during race time in Alaska as a member of Iditarod’s educational team, as you visit schools, present programs in the community, and prepare for the teaching adventure of a lifetime.

Fly in small bush planes over rugged yet magnificently beautiful terrain from checkpoint to checkpoint during the race. As a race volunteer, help where needed as you learn first hand what goes on behind the scenes during the race. Bring the sights, sounds, and race events to classrooms so that educators can connect the race with lessons surrounding a real event, in real-time, and transition that learning to their own local communities, as you report back to classrooms via Internet. Be a part of an academic success story that inspires students to learn and gain skills necessary to help lead them down the trail of reaching their own goals and dreams.

Represent the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race® and educators everywhere in the teaching adventure of a lifetime. Iditarod is the Last Great Race®. It is a vehicle to transport students to academic success. Be a part of this teaching and learning adventure by applying for Teacher on the Trail™. You have already taken your first steps along an adventure learning teaching trail by reading this introduction to our program. The trail before you is one filled with hard work but will lead you to an experience that as 2006 Teacher on the Trail™, Terrie Hanke said, “Teacher on the Trail isn’t a 365-day adventure. It continues for a lifetime.”

Application deadline: December 1 of each year.

Want more information? Visit the Target® Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ . Read and download lessons and journal messages from Teachers past and present. Experience what it’s like to be a Target® Teacher on the Trail™.

Learn about the history and the mission statement and goals of the Target Teacher on the Trail™ program. (Additional links to be added soon.)

Please visit the Target® website to thank them for sponsorship of the Teacher on the Trail Program.

Visit your local Target® store.