Top 10 Reasons To Donate To TEO

1.  Math - The Most Feared Subject in the United States

4.   Multilingual Support

5.   Universal Access

8.   Students Are Suffering

6.   TEO "Goes the Distance" with Distance and Portable Learning

9.  TEO Can Reduce the Cost of Education

2.   TEO Enables Our Workforce and Our Economy

      A strong understanding of mathematics is a fundamental requirement for scientific progress.  As a country, our youth is not being properly prepared to lead the high-tech free world of the future.  TEO will continue refining its  curriculum until everyone can understand the mathematical concepts that our future citizens will need to compete in the evolving high-tech industry that, each day, is more responsible for the sustenance of all of humanity.  Learning math is easy if you know how to learn math and nearly impossible if you don't - just ask anyone that "likes math" and someone that suffers from "math anxiety". TEO aims to teach students how to learn math rather than just trying to teach math to someone that hasn't yet been taught how to learn it.  Students will finally be able to forget about their "math anxiety" and just learn some math.

     TEO understands the difference between "supporting multiple languages" and "multilingual support" and intends to do both.  TEO's multilingual support can help bridge the gap between people of different languages in a shared environment by offering curriculum that is capable of implementing multiple languages SIMULTANEOUSLY through techniques such as providing videos with audio in one language and subtitles in another.  TEO's multiple language support can extend access to educational curriculum to institutions and people of languages other than English simply by mirroring our website in different languages.

    Some students in today's schools may predominantly communicate in one language at home but another at school, depending on the cultural diversity of the school.  A father may tutor his son in trigonometry at home in spanish but the son's teacher is teaching the class in English.  Maybe an exchange student knows Algebra pretty well from his or her classes taken in their country but are having to retake the class here just because they don't know the correct english vocabulary to attach to the mathematical concepts they learned in their own country.

    Students could be able watch a math lesson video in English, in English with Spanish subtitles, in Spanish with English subtitles, or in Spanish with Spanish subtitles.  These kinds of refinements to our curriculum can also help provide some financial relief for some of our underfunded public schools.

    TEO is committed to the education of ANYONE with the will to learn.  TEO strives to make their curriculum as accessible as possible by not only implementing current techniques for assisting people with disabilities such as closed captioning for the hearing impaired, but also by pioneering new accessibility techniques.  TEO wants to find new ways of aiding those with special life challenges by refining existing accessibility options and by pioneering completely new approaches as developing technology permits.

     Right now, there are millions of students that are nearly bored to death from their required reading assignments.  For some, reading is pure torture.  For most, it depends on what you're reading.

If you're a student then you know that two hours spent watching a documentary on a certain historical event will provide you with more knowledge about it than reading a history textbook for two hours.

    TEO recognizes the unfulfilling experience of a "read-only" approach to education that has been pushed for so long and wants to give you the choice to watch the video, read the book, or do both.  TEO's "Pages" can be freely downloaded and printed for use as a conventional textbook but our videos can help students visualize concepts as well as display text and play audio thus allowing the student to use multiple sensory inputs to absorb new knowledge.  Also, interactive programs can help students really master some concepts that simply can’t be taught in any other manner yet developed.  We've had electricity (and computers) for some time now and TEO intends to use it to allow students to learn much more in much less time.  Try listening to a history lecture in your car on the way to school rather than reading it at your desk the night before when you really could use some sleep!

     Why go to class when the class can come to you, saving students and teachers time and money?  You could download a TEO video tutorial to your video iPod or video enabled cell phone and refine your understanding of “The Unit Circle” before your big trigonometry quiz while waiting in line for a hamburger or sitting on the bus.  You could get acquainted with the relevant vocabulary words pertaining to the next chapter to be covered in Biology class during your morning jog by downloading an audio file from TEO to your portable music player rather than wasting time sitting at a desk in front of your Bio book decrypting those 26 black and white characters - a process we refer to as “reading”.

     TEO provides financial relief for college students and their parents by providing free online educational curriculum that could save a single college student hundreds of dollars in textbook costs in a single semester.  Also, TEO's multimedia approach to curriculum allows for easier learning and therefore a better chance of passing a course the first time around instead of the second or third.  Also, TEO's free online educational curriculum relieves public schools of the need to spend your tax dollars on overpriced textbooks.  Teachers could download better content from TEO site for free and print only the pages they need or provide links to TEO video tutorials for their students to watch.  This allows schools spend your tax dollars on more pressing needs such as better wages for teachers and/or computer and internet access.

10.   Reduced Environmental Costs

      The environment suffers less when online curriculum is used instead of the classical textbook approach.  A single textbook edition update can require millions of new books to be printed (good bye trees) and shipped (truckloads of books burning fuel to cross the country) just to fix typos, rearrange chapter sections and other small adaptations that compose the main excuses for releasing new editions.  Consider this scenario with that fact that some textbooks are on their 8th edition.  With TEO's online curriculum all of these issues can be easily resolved in just a few moments with a simple website update thus saving millions of trees and gallons of gasoline, to say the very least.

3. World-Wide Focus for the Future

     TEO not only understands the importance of a good education for people of ALL nations around the world, TEO also understands the need for people around the world to be able to educate one another allowing us all to live a little closer to harmony.  So, when designing and delivering educational curriculum, TEO keeps the educational needs of "those other" countries' in mind as well as the valuable lessons "those" countries have to offer ours letting us all take a step closer to becoming "these" countries of the world.

7.  TEO Enables Transformative Research In Education