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 From the mailbox:
My name is Anne Milazzo and I'm writing to
you from IREX, an international non-profit organization in Washington,
D.C. I wanted to share with you a very exciting international
travel grant opportunity for US secondary level teachers through the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA).
This program is funded by the U.S. Department of State.
We
are recruiting for the U.S. teachers reciprocal visit component of the program.
The applicants we are seeking are U.S. secondary-level teachers of English or the social sciences to participate in a two-week
professional exchange program in one of the following countries: Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Senegal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. I
would like to ask if you would post the attached program announcement
on your website as well as
send it out on any electronic listservs that you administer.
Eligible applicants must be:
- Secondary-level (middle or high school), full-time teachers with five or
more years of classroom experience in disciplines including English as a Foreign Language,
English Language or Literature, and the Social Sciences (including social studies, civics, and history);
- U.S. citizens; and
- Able to travel in April 2010.
The program is fully funded and
provides: visa support; round-trip domestic airfare, lodging
and meals to attend the TEA U.S. Conference; round-trip airfare from the U.S. to the assigned country; emergency medical insurance;
as well as lodging and a daily stipend in host country. The TEA U.S. teacher application is available for
download at our website: www.irex.org.
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