Teacher Exchange / RFPs

[Ben Dunbar]

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 site 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 at 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.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact me at teachers at americancouncils.org.

 Ben Dunbar
Senior Program Officer, LTMS
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