BROADENING TEACHING PERSPECTIVES:

TEACHER EXCHANGE PROGRAM

Global Teacher
y Broaden your teaching perspectives y Expanding your experiences y Achieve a level of global competitiveness

Teacher Exchange Program y Enhance professional development and broaden perspectives

SEVERAL PROGRAMS:
1. Visiting International Faculty Program 2. 3. 4. 5.

(VIF) Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program Inter-African Teacher Exchanges Canadian Educators Exchange Global Teachers Millennium Awards

Visiting International Faculty Program (VIF)

a. VIF Purposes and Beliefs y Ensure that students, educators and communities worldwide reap the benefits of international education y All schools should have at least one international exchange teacher. y All students should be exposed to a variety of exchange teachers during their academic careers. y All communities should have an equal opportunity to develop globally literate citizens to help build a foundation for success in the global marketplace.

Visiting International Faculty Program (VIF)

y It is the United States largest cultural exchange

program for teachers and schools y It is dedicated to transforming lives through international exchange of teachers y Provides school in the United States with world class teachers who teach a new generation of students for success in globally integrated world y Teachers who participate work in the U.S. for up to three years and then return home to their country to share international experiences with students and colleagues

Visiting International Faculty Program (VIF)

b. History of Visiting International Faculty Program (VIF) y Founded in 1987 (24 years) y Began accepting teachers from other countries of the world to teach Kindergarten up to grade 12 in 1989 - In cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction - 12 international teachers -> 10 North Carolina countries -> foreign language teachers - 1996, VIF Was asked to recruit teachers in other subject areas y To date, VIF teachers worked in expanded areas (states of South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, Florida and California) y International teachers (50 countries such as Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain including Philippines)

Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program

y Started 1946 to promote mutual understanding

between the United States and countries around the world y For the U.S. teachers, this opportunity involves a year or semester direct exchange with a counterpart in another country teaching the same subject at the same level y 30 countries (including Philippines) currently participate in the program

Inter-African Teacher Exchanges

y Objectives: to provide opportunity for African

teachers to learn from teaching environment in other African countries y Aimed to extend experiences and widen the horizon of African teachers by encouraging exchange visits to countries outside Africa as well y The program is envisioned to create cultural awareness and tolerance of developments in different African education environments

Inter-African Teacher Exchanges

y (start-up year) African teachers exchange visits within a

school or schools in another African country. The teacher will travel to neighboring countries to work for over a period of two weeks after which in pairs they will engage in following activities: - Be stationed at one school for one week and another school for another week. - Observe teaching in the said teachers subject. - Guest-teach using ICTs at the schools that the teacher is visiting. - Engage in discussions with teachers in another school. - Write a journal of their exchange visit.

Canadian Educators Exchange

y A non-profit foundation y One of the international educational exchanges that

offer educators and their students an opportunity to broaden their understanding of one anothers cultures, customs and languages
y Two Kinds of Exchange in Alberta for a

powerful professional development experience: - One Year Exchanges - Short Term Exchanges

Two Kinds of Exchange in Alberta for a powerful professional development experience:

y One Year Exchanges

- Enable teachers to swap their jobs (and homes) with teachers in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States, Germany, and others for a period of one year. - The teacher continues to be paid by his or her school aboard in Alberta. When the year is over, the teacher returns home to his original position in Alberta. y Short Term Exchanges - Occur during the spring and summer holidays, enable the teachers and administrators to job shadow with the counterpart in another country

Global Teachers Millennium Awards

y Limited only to participating countries y Commits to improving the quality of Education in

South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, and the UK and to promote partnership between the North and South African countries

Global Teachers Millennium Awards

y The program aims to:

- Change the lives of UK educators, personally and professionally by encouraging them to fulfill their aspiration and use their talents in innovative ways; - Ensure benefits for staff and pupils of UK schools and their local communities through the dissemination of innovative development education - Support the aims and activities of Links educational programs in South Africa, Ghana and Uganda - Set a standard and develop a model for other similar scheme

Global Teachers Millennium Awards

y It is the intent of the program to achieve learning

outcomes among the target partners of the UK in terms of: - Increased knowledge of people and life in developing countries - Better understanding of how UK is linked with other countries - More positive attitudes towards people and life in developing countries-challenging stereotypes and beliefs in shared humanity - More positive attitudes towards multicultural nature of UK society challenging of stereotypes and embracing of diversity

Global Teachers Millennium Awards

y A Global Teacher in this program is described as someone

who: - Thinks and acts both locally and globally; - Embraces the worlds rich variety of ways of life; - Understands how this world is interconnected; - Is committed to making the world a more equitable place; - Believes in education for sustainable development; - Has professional and personal skills to share, and to learn; - Brings the world into their classroom, school and community; - Encourages dialogue and partnership between the North and South; - Can inspire others to act as Global teachers.

CONCLUSION
y It is interesting to note that these programs give

teachers the opportunity to live their personal and professional lives in another context, in another setting, in another country, thus strengthening their skills in understanding diversity and multiculturalism.
y You will take note that all of these programs aim to

broaden understanding about education in other countries, forge partnership and cultural understanding and improve professional development.