PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT

The Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA international teachers with unique opportunities to develop expertise in their subject areas, enhance their teaching skills and increase their knowledge about the United States. The international participants will travel to the United States in two cohorts of 88-90 teachers each in spring or fall 2012. TEA consists of a nondegree, non-credit customized academic program, including coursework and intensive training in teaching methodologies, lesson planning, and teaching strategies for home classroom environments, as well as the use of computers for Internet, word processing, and as teaching tools. As part of the academic program, participants will have the opportunity to design or revise a set of lessons for use in their home classrooms as well as modify a lesson into a micro-lesson demonstration for the End of Program Workshop in Washington, D.C. The sixweek program will also include a forty-hour internship at a secondary school to actively engage participants with American teachers and students. Cultural activities and academic support will be provided for participants throughout the program.

TEA program alumni are also eligible to apply for small grants upon their return home. These grants can provide resources to conduct teacher training workshops or other activities that share the teachers' experiences in the U.S. and contribute to the growth of their home education communities.