In this issue:
- Global Environmental Teachings Program
- Hessen-Wisconsin High School Exchange Program
- Why Teach India: Exploring India’s Role in Secondary Curricula
A happy Martin Luther King Jr Day to everyone!
Global Environmental Teachings Program
University of Wisconsin-Stevens PointDo you dream of Africa? Live that dream with the Global Environmental Teachings Program!
This June 2009 US educators will join South African educators on a 3-week study tour filled with whales, cheetahs, and fynbos. This program is designed specifically for educators. Travel with other teachers on this African journey that takes you along the coast of South Africa between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town to experience the unique Cape Floral plant kingdom, host to over 5,800 endemic plant species. During the journey you will learn how educators teach about the environment as it relates to health and poverty. Be inspired by historical leaders that helped South Africa rise after apartheid.
Only 3 spots remain! Deadline for registration is January 30, 2009.
For more information, visit us on the web or contact Susan Ermer by email or phone 715.346.4150.
Hessen-Wisconsin High School Exchange Program
Wisconsin Department of Public InstructionFebruary 12 is the deadline for applications to the Department of Public Instruction’s Hessen-Wisconsin High School Exchange Program.
The program is a one-to-one exchange in which students are hosted by the same family of the partner student who visits them. Students often report that exchanges like these have a life-changing impact. The educational systems in Hessen and in Wisconsin have had a relationship since 1990.
Students thinking of applying must be enrolled in German II, III, IV, or V or have speaking experience, and have at least sophomore status for the 2009-10 school year. Letters of recommendation from a German teacher and a school administrator or guidance counselor are required. Families of Wisconsin applicants must be willing to host a German student in their home during the fall. There are a few “hosting only” opportunities if U.S. students are unable to travel.
Each Wisconsin high school student selected will be paired with a German high school student for a full school year. Participants should be committed, motivated, mature, adaptable, and serious students who wish to be ambassadors for their schools and the State of Wisconsin. German students stay with the American family and attend high school during fall semester and Wisconsin students spend second semester in Germany. A chaperone appointed by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will accompany the students on their travel to and from Frankfurt.
The program costs are a $400 DPI program fee, costs of hosting a German student, airfare for one roundtrip to Frankfurt, Germany, and incidentals, including a monthly allowance for the Wisconsin student in Germany.
For more information, contact Gerhard Fischer, 608-267-9265.
Why Teach India: Exploring India’s Role in Secondary Curricula
3 April 2009, South Asia Institute of Harvard UniversityEducators for Teaching India is hosting the first secondary school conference on teaching India. The conference will feature a keynote address from Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna, as well as workshops by scholars of Indian literature, history, religion, media and global economics. Additionally, the conference will offer sessions on the pedagogy of teaching India in both public and private school classrooms. Led by a group of interdisciplinary educators currently teaching India, these workshops focus on the “how” of teaching such an ancient, diverse, and complex civilization in the secondary classroom.
The conference registration fee is $40.
Additional information on the conference is available here while clicking here will take you to an online registration form.
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