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| Title | Call for Participants: Russian Teacher Exchange Program |
| Body | The Teachers to Teachers: Language, Technology, Math, and Science Exchange Program, funded by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational Affairs (ECA) and administered by American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, was established this year to recognize the achievements of a select group of award winning U.S. teachers, while providing them with the opportunity to utilize their talents and expertise to improve the quality of secondary education in Russia. This year, eight U.S. middle school and high school teachers of EFL, history, social studies, math, hard sciences, or informational technology will be invited to participate in an exchange program. A three-day cross-cultural conference will be held at a U.S. university with Russian teachers of comparable disciplines in May 2007 for English, EFL, social studies, and history teachers and in October 2007 for math, science, and informational technology teachers. In addition, the finalists will travel to Russia for two or three weeks in March 2008 to visit schools and communities of their winning Russian counterparts, stay in their homes, and participate in teacher education programs, methodological seminars, classroom teaching, cultural exchange programs, and a variety of professional development activities. Teacher applications can be received by emailing Ben Dunbar at teachers@americancouncils.org. American Councils is also seeking proposals from potential host universities and colleges to develop professional development seminars for secondary school teachers from Russia who will travel to the United States. One request is to organize a seminar for teachers of English as a foreign language, social studies, and history who will arrive in the United States in April 2007. The second request is to organize a seminar for teachers of math, science, and informational technology who will arrive in the United States in October 2007. More information about these RFPs can be found at http://www.americancouncils.org/news_item.asp?PageID=73&NewsItem=380 . Please feel free to share this with your colleagues who might be interested in the program. Please do not hesitate to contact me at teachers@americancouncils.org. Ben Dunbar Senior Program Officer, LTMS Dunbar, B. Teacher Exchange / Listserv. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (25 Oct. 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-10-26 12:08:28 |
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| Publishdate | 2006-10-30 00:00:00 |
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