(5) the Teaching Profession Seminar

8/21/2019 (5) the Teaching Profession Seminar

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Broadening Teaching

Perspectives: TEACHER

EXCHANGE PROGRAMS


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Visiting International Faculty

Program

- United States largest cultural exchange

program for teachers and schools.- Teachers participate in the VIF program

work in the U.S. for up to three years and

then return home to share international

experiences with students and colleagues.


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VIF Purposes and BeliefsAll schools should have at least one

international teacher.

All students should be exposed to a

variety of exchange teachers duringtheir academic careers.

All communities should have an equal

opportunity to develop globally literatecitizens to help build a foundation for

success in the global marketplace.


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Fulbright Teacher Exchange

Program

- Promote mutual understanding

between the United States and countries

around the world.- Involves a year or semester direct

exchange with a counterpart in another

country teaching the same subject at the

same level.


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Inter-African Teacher

Exchanges

Provide opportunity for African

teachers to learn from the teaching

environment in other African countries. Envisioned to create cultural

awareness and tolerance of

developments in different Africaneducation environments.


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Canadian Educators

Exchange

-Handles both student and educator

exchanges.

-Offer an opportunity to broaden theirunderstanding of one anothers

cultures, customs, and languages.


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Two Types of Exchanges:

One Year Exchanges

- enable teachers in Alberta to swap their

jobs and homes with teachers in the U.S.,

Germany, Australia, etc.

Short-term Exchange

- exchanges occur only in spring andsummer days


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Global Teachers Millennium

Awards

- Commits to improving the quality of

education in South Africa, Ghana,

Uganda, and the UK and to promote

partnership between the North andSouth African countries.


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These program give teachers theopportunity to live their personal and

professional lives in another context, in

another setting, in another country, thusstrengthening the skills in

understanding diversity and

multiculturalism


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TECHNOLOGY FORTEACHING


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Roles of Technology

1. Technology provides support to the

solution of meaningful problems

2. Technology acts as a cognitivesupport.

3. Technology promotes collaboration

as well as independent learning


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Technology Programs for

Teaching

Stand Alone Programs


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Programs Available on the Internet


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Information Databases


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Standandard of Technology for

Teachers1. Technology operations and concepts

2. Planning and designing learning

environments and experiences

3. Teaching, learning, and thecurriculum

4. Assessment and evaluation

5. Productivity and professionalpractice

6. Social, ethical, legal and human

issues

Documents

(5) the Teaching Profession Seminar