State Dept. Grants for Educators
Anselmo Villanueva
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Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Subject: [MCP] State Dept. Grants for Educators
Dear Colleague,
Did you ever wish that your U.S. elementary school or high school had offered you more opportunities to learn new languages or study abroad? Would you like your child’s school to offer new critical languages? Do you know U.S. teachers or schools who want to globalize their classrooms? It is not too late to help ensure that future classes and students get these opportunities.
Please take a minute and share the information below with your U.S. alma mater, your children’s schools, or teachers that you know at all K-12 levels. Due to spam filters, we have purposely not included attachments with this e-mail. However, we would be happy to separately e-mail our promotional materials and flyers for you to share with your community.
BRING THE WORLD TO YOUR SCHOOL!
Explore these fully funded programs that are supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education!
HOST A GUEST TEACHER
The Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) places EFL teachers from China and Egypt in U.S. K-12 host schools for an academic year where they teach Mandarin or Arabic language and culture. TCLP provides teachers’ salaries, healthcare, roundtrip airfare, training, professional development funds, and ongoing program support. Selected host schools also receive access to grant opportunities to support language learning projects. For more information, please visit www.tclprogram.org. To speak with alumni about their TCLP experience, join an online webinar.
Program Application Deadline: January 23, 2013
CONNECT INTERNATIONALLY
The Educational Seminars Program provides short-term professional development opportunities to teachers and administrators from around the world, for 3 week reciprocal exchange programs (Brazil, Portugal) and 2-5 week one-way professional development programs (India, China). Educational Seminars provide airfare, training, travel health care, and living costs. Visit www.americancouncils.org/es for updates and more information or email edsem...@americancouncils.org.
Program Application Deadlines: January 7, 2013 (India); April 1, 2013 (Brazil, Portugal); TBD, 2013 (China)
STUDY LANGUAGE IN CHINA
The Intensive Summer Language Institute (ISLI) provides fully funded fellowships for non-native speakers of Chinese who are teaching Chinese to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Chinese in Changchun, China. Fellowships are available to current K-12 teachers and community college instructors of Mandarin Chinese, as well as to students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach Mandarin. 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. Visit www.americancouncils.org/isli or email is...@americancouncils.org for more information.
Program Application Deadline: February 11, 2013
Thank you very much for sharing these opportunities with your networks! If there are any questions about the Teacher Programs, please feel free to share my contact information.
Best wishes,
Alena
Alena Palevitz
Program Officer, Teacher Programs
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
1828 L Street, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202.833.7522
Fax: 202.833.7523