This document discusses several international teacher exchange programs that aim to broaden perspectives of both students and teachers. It provides details on the Visiting International Faculty Program (VIF), the largest US cultural exchange for teachers. The VIF offers overseas teachers to serve as educators and ambassadors in US schools. Other programs mentioned include the Fulbright Teacher Exchange, Inter-African Teacher Exchanges, Canadian Educators Exchange, and the Global Teachers Millennium Awards. The overall goal of these programs is to promote global literacy and mutual understanding across borders through international teaching opportunities.

1. BROADENING
TEACHING
PERSPECTIVE

2. TEACHER
EXCHANGE
PROGRAMS

3. VISITING INTERNATIONAL
FACULTY PROGRAM (VIF)
FULBRIGHT TEACHER EXCHANGE
PROGRAM
INTER-AFRICAN TEACHER
EXCHANGES
CANADIAN EDUCATORS
EXCHANGE
GLOBAL TEACHERS MILLENIUMM
AWARDS

4. VISITING
INTERNATIONAL
FACULTY PROGRAM (VIF)
• Is the United States largest
cultural exchange program for
teachers and schools
• It is dedicated to transforming
lives through international
exchange of teachers.

5. VISITING
INTERNATIONAL
FACULTY PROGRAM (VIF)
• Offers highly qualified teachers
from around the world serving as
teachers and cultural ambassador in
the United States.

6. VIF’s Purposes and Beliefs
• It is the intention of the VIF to
ensure that student, educators and
communities worldwide reap the
benefits of international education .
the program believes in the
following principles:

7. 1. All school should have at least one
international exchange teacher.
2. All students should be exposed to
a variety of exchange teachers
during their academic careers.
3. All communities should have an
equal opportunity to develop
globally literate citizens to help
build a foundation for success in
the global market place.

8. History of Visiting
International Faculty
Program (VIF)
• The program started 19 years ago.
It was founded in 1987 and began
accepting teachers from other
countries of the world to teach
kindergarten up to grade 12 in
1989.

9. History of Visiting
International Faculty
Program (VIF)
• This project is in cooperation with
the North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction. The first group
of 12 international teachers worked
on in 10 North Carolina countries as
foreign language teachers.

10. History of Visiting
International Faculty
Program (VIF)
• The international teachers are coming
from more than 50 countries of the
world such as
Australia, Canada, Chile, and New
Zealand, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain
including the Philippines. There are
several Filipino Teachers who
participated in this program.

11. FULBRIGHT TEACHER
EXCHANGE PROGRAM
• Since 1946, the Fulbright Teacher Exchange
Program has helped nearly 23,000 teachers
and school administrators to promote mutual
understanding between the United States and
countries around the world. 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.

12. INTER-AFRICAN TEACHER
EXCHANGES
• The objectives of this program are to
provide opportunity for African
teachers to learn from teaching
environment in other African countries
and also aimed to extend experiences
and widen the horizon of African
teachers by encouraging exchange visits
to countries outside Africa as well.

13. INTER-AFRICAN TEACHER
EXCHANGES
• The teacher will travel to
neighboring countries to work for
over a period of the two weeks
after which in pairs they will
engage in following activities:

14. 1. Be stationed at one school for one
week and another school for another
week.
2. Observe teaching in the said teachers
subject
3. Guest ICTs at the schools that the
teacher is visiting
4. Engage in discussions with the
teachers in another school.
5. Write a journal of their
exchange visit.

15. CANADIAN EDUCATORS
EXCHANGE
• The Canadian Education Exchange
Foundation is a non-profit
foundation which handles both
student and educator exchanges.
• In Alberta, two kinds of exchanges
are possible for a powerful
professional development
experiences.

16. ONE YEAR EXCHANGES
These exchanges enable teachers in
Alberta to swap their jobs (and homes)
with teachers in countries such as
Australia, New Zealand, United
Kingdom, and the United
States, Germany, and other for a period
of one year. During this time, the teacher
continues to be paid by his/her school
board in Alberta, when the year is over
again the teacher returns home to his
original position in Alberta.

17. SHORT-TERM EXCHANGES
This exchange which occur during the
spring and summer holidays, enable
the teachers and administrators to
job shadow with the counterpart in
another country.

18. GLOBAL TEACHERS
MILLENIUM AWARDS
• Although this program is limited
only to participating countries, It is
important to learn that Global
teacher Exchange program
contribute to the quality of
teachers worldwide.

19. Aims of Global Teachers
Millennium Awards
• Change the live 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 under local communities
through the dissemination of innovative
development education.

20. Aims of Global Teachers
Millennium Awards
• Support the aims and activities of
Link’s educational program in South
Africa, Ghana, and Uganda
• Set a standard and develop model
for other similar scheme

21. It is the intent of the program to
achieve learning outcomes among the
target partners of the Unite Kingdom
in terms of:
A. Increase knowledge of people and
life in developing countries
B. Better understanding of how UK is
linked with other countries

22. It is the intent of the program to
achieve learning outcomes among the
target partners of the Unite Kingdom
in terms of:
C. More positive attitudes toward
people and life in developing
countries – challenging stereotypes
and beliefs in shared humanity.

23. It is the intent of the program to
achieve learning outcomes among the
target partners of the Unite Kingdom
in terms of:
D. More positive attitudes towards
multicultural nature of UK societychallenging of stereotypes and
embracing of diversity.

24. A Global Teacher in this program is
described as someone who:
• Thinks and acts both locally and
globally;
• Embraces the world’s rich variety
of ways of life;
• Understand how this world is
interconnected;
• Is committed to making
• the world a more equitable place

25. A Global Teacher in this program is
described as someone who:
• Believes in education for
sustainable development
• Has a professional and personal
skills to share, and to learn;
• Bring world into their
classroom, school, and community;

26. A Global Teacher in this program is
described as someone who:
• Encourages dialogue and
partnership between the North and
the South;
• Can inspire others to acts Global
Teachers.

27. “As a result of participating in the
scheme I have developed my ability
to mentor students and staff and
have developed a more consultative
leadership style in my school.”

28. “The best thing I have ever done. I
have come back a different person
– more tolerant, more
understanding, and more sensitive
to the needs of others. The impact
of this award will stay with me
forever.”

29. THANK YOU
AND GOD
BLESS!
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