This document outlines several international teacher exchange programs and their goals of broadening educational and cultural understanding between countries. It describes programs such as the Visiting International Faculty Program that places teachers in US schools for up to 3 years, the Fulbright Teacher Exchange for semester or year-long direct exchanges, and Inter-African Teacher Exchanges that allow learning from other African education systems. The benefits of these exchanges are said to include professional development, renewing enthusiasm, and gaining a global perspective. Teachers are asked to imagine how they might have developed after participating in one of these programs.

2. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL
EXCHANGES OFFER EDUCATORS
AND THEIR STUDENTS AN
OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN THEIR
UNDERSTANDING OF ONE
ANOTHER’S CULTURES, CUSTOMS
AND LANGUAGES.

3. “ WE CANNOT HOLD A TORCH TO LIGHT
ANOTHER’SPATH WITHOUT BRIGHTENING OUR
OWN”
-BEN SWEETLAND

4. PROGRAM GOALS
BROADEN THE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPATING TEACHERS BY
PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN A DIFFERENT
TEACHING ENVIRONMENT;
CONTRIBUTE TO WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY FOCUSSING ON THE
INITIATIVES OF DIFFERENT EDUCATION
SYSTEMS;

5. CONTRIBUTE TO THE ENRICHMENT OF
PARTICIPATING HOST SCHOOLS;
FOSTER COMMUNICATION, GOODWILL AND THE
EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN STATES/TERRITORIES
AND COUNTRIES;
 PROMOTE NETWORKING BETWEEN STUDENTS,
TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS

6. BENEFITS FOR
TEACHERS
• EXPERIENCING LEARNING ABOUT
DIFFERENT EDUCATION SYSTEMS;
• DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALLY BY
EXCHANGING IDEAS AND KNOWLEDGE;
• BROADENING EDUCATIONAL HORIZONS
THROUGH A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE;
• RENEWING PROFESSIONAL
ENTHUSIASM;

7. TEACHER
EXCHANGE
PROGRAMS

8. 1. VISITING INTERNATIONAL
FACULTY PROGRAM (VIF)
- IS THE UNITED STATES’ LARGEST
CULTURAL PROGRAM FOR TEACHERS
AND SCHOOLS. IT IS DEDICATED TO
TRANSFORMING LIVES THROUGH
INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF
TEACHERS.

9. • THIS PROVIDES SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES
WITH WORLD CLASS TEACHERS WHO TEACH A
NEW GENERATION OF STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN
GLOBALLY INTEGRATED WORLD.
• TEACHERS WHO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM
WORKS IN U.S FOR UP TO 3 YEARS AND RETURN
HME TO THEIR COUNTRY TO SHARE
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH STUDENTS
AND COLLEAGUES.

10. 2. FULBRIGHT TEACHER
EXCHANGE PROGRAM
-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.

11. •THIS OPPORTUNITY INVOLVES A
YEAR OR SEMESTER DIRECT
EXCHANGE WITH A COUNTERPART
IN ANOTHER COUNTRY TEACHING
THE SAME SUBJECT AT THE SAME
LEVEL.

12. 3. INTER-AFRICAN TEACHER
EXCHANGE
-THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROGRAM ARE TO
PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR AFRICAN
TEACHERS TO LEARN FROM TEACHING
ENVIRONMENT IN OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES.
-THIS ALSO AIMED TO EXTEND EXPERIENCES
AND WIDEN THE HORIZON OF AFRICAN
TEACHERS BY ENCOURAGING EXCHANGE
VISITS TO COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE AFRICA AS
WELL.

13. 4. CANADIAN EDUCATORS
EXCHANGE
-IS A NON-PROFIT FOUNDATION WHICH
HANDLES BOTH STUDENT AND
EDUCATOR EXCHANGES.
- THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF
EXCHANGES FOR A POWERFUL
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

14. TWO KINDS OF EXCHANGES
ONE YEAR EXCHANGES
- ENABLES TEACHERS IN ALBERTA
TO SWAP THEIR JOBS WITH
TEACHERS IN COUNTRIES SUCH
AS, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND,
UNITED KINGDOM AND U.S FOR A
PERIOD OF 1 YEAR.

15. SHORT-TERM EXCHANGES
• THIS EXCHANGES WHICH OCCUR
DURING THE SPRING AND SUMMER
HOLIDAYS, ENABLES THE TEACHERS
AND ADMINISTRATORS. TO JOB
SHADOW WITH THE COUNTERPART IN
ANOTHER COUNTRY.

16. 5. GLOBAL TEACHERS
MILLENNIUM AWARDS
-THIS PROGRAM IS LIMITED ONLY TO
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES, IT IS
IMPORTANT TO LEARN THAT THE GLOBAL
TEACHER EXCHANGE PROGRAM
CONTRIBUTES TO THE QUALITY OF
TEACHERS WORLDWIDE.

17. THIS PROGRAMS AIMS TO
•CHANGE THE LIVES OF THE UK EDUCATORS,
ERDONALLY AND ROFESSIONALLY BY
RNCOURAGING THEM TO FULFILL THEIR
ASIRATION AND USE THEIR TALENTS IN
INNOVATIVE WAYS.
•ENSURE BENEFITS FOR STAFF AND UILS OF
UK SCHOOLS AND THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITIES
THROUGH THE DISSEMINATION OF
INNOVATIVE DEVELOMENT EDUCATION

18. •SUPPORT THE AIMS AND ACTIVITIES
OF LINK’S EDUCATIONAL
PROGRAMS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
GHANA AND UGANDA; AND
•SET A STANDARD AND DEVELOP A
MODEL FOR OTHER SIMILAR
SCHEME.

19. EVALUATION:
IMAGINE YOURSELF AS A
TEACHER WHO PARTICIPATE IN
ONE OF THE TEACHER
EXCHANGE PROGRAM. HOW DO
YOU SEE YOURSELF IN THE
FUTURE AFTER PARTICIPATING IN
THAT KIND OF PROGRAM?

20. RUBRIC:
CONTENT - 15 PTS.
ORGANIZATION - 10 PTS.
MECHANICS - 5 PTS
25 PTS

21. REFERENCES:
• FILE:///C:/USERS/NENIA%20JOY/DOWNLOADS/TEACHER%20EXCHANGE%2
0PROGRAM%20INFORMATION%20%20GUIDELINES%202014%20(3).PDF
• TEACHING PROFESSION 1
• FILE:///C:/USERS/NENIA%20JOY/DOWNLOADS/TEACHER%20EXCHANGE%2
0PROGRAM%20INFORMATION%20%20GUIDELINES%202014%20(3).PDF
• WWW.VIF.ORG
• WWW.FULBRIGHTEXCHANGES.ORG
• WWW.SCHOOLNET.AFRICA.NET/563.0.HTML&=4
• WWW.CEEF.CA
• WWW.LCD.ORG.UK