Connect With the World
Fully Funded International Programs for Globe-Trotting Educators
by CSA Staff
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (U.S. Department of State) offers a number of fully-funded programs for educators that bring people from around the world closer together. The programs are implemented by the American Councils for International Education.
Connect Internationally
The Educational Seminars Program provides short-term professional development opportunities for teachers and administrators from around the world, for two- to three-week reciprocal exchange programs as well as one-way professional development programs.
Participating countries include Argentina, Brazil, Thailand, and Uruguay for reciprocal exchanges and Greece, India, and Italy for one-way programs. All Educational Seminars provide airfare, training, travel health care, and living costs.
Applicants must be US citizens, have at least three years experience as an educator in the US, have the ability to participate for the full length of the program and meet other requirements as per the specific programs.
For more information, visit www.americancouncils.org/es or email edseminars@americancouncils.org. The next deadline is March 30.
Study in Egypt and China
Intensive Summer Language Institutes (ISLI) provides fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic in Alexandria, Egypt, and Chinese in Changchun, China. Current K-12 teachers, community college instructors of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, and students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach these languages may apply.
Participants earn ten hours of graduate credit through Bryn Mawr College, and are provided with peer tutors and roundtrip airfare. All travel and study-related costs are fully covered.
The trip is from June 19 through Aug. 4. Applicants must be a non-native speaker of Arabic or Mandarin Chinese at the intermediate or advanced levels, be currently teaching Arabic or Chinese as a foreign language at the primary or secondary level at an accredited US public or private school or community college or be enrolled in a program leading to this career, and be a US citizen.
For more information, visit www.americancouncils.org/isli or email isli@americancouncils.org. The next deadline is March 2.
