Exchanges
Exchanges for Faculty and Researchers
Senior Fulbright Fellowship Program
Overview: Individual Fulbright grants are available for scholars from selected countries to conduct research, lecture, or pursue combined lecturing and research in the United States. Under the Visiting Fulbright Scholar Program, scholars apply in their home country for Fulbright awards.
Deadline for submitting applications: October
Website: http://www.cies.org/vs%5Fscholars/
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program
Overview: The Worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings visiting scholars and professionals from abroad to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities for one semester or one academic year. Fulbright Scholars-in-Residence can have a significant impact on U.S. colleges and universities.
Deadline for submitting applications: March
Website: http://www.cies.org/vs%5Fscholars/
Fulbright Visiting Specialist Rapid Access to the Muslim World
Overview: The Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program is designed to promote understanding of the Muslim World and civilization by providing opportunities for U.S. higher educational institutions to host specialists from the Muslim World for short-term programs (three to six weeks) of intensive lecturing and public outreach.
Deadline for submitting applications: April
Website: http://www.cies.org/Visiting_Specialists/
Senior Fulbright Specialist Program
Overview: The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. Fulbright Senior Specialist projects are designed to provide U.S. faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with professional counterparts at non-U.S. post-secondary academic institutions on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities.
Deadline for submitting applications: Open
Website: www.cies.org/specialists/#terms
The Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
Overview: The New Century Scholars Program will play a vital role in forging new links among scholars and professionals from around the world who will work together to seek solutions to issues and concerns that affect humankind. Each year approximately 30 outstanding scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad will be selected as New Century Scholars to participate in the program through an open competition. Of the thirty, approximately one-third will be U.S. citizens while the remaining two thirds will be visiting scholars from countries with an operational Fulbright Scholar Program. NCS will provide a platform for scholars from the US and around the world to engage in debate and dialogue based on multidisciplinary research and to develop new global models for understanding the social context within which nations and communities shape their responses to the many challenges of the 21st century.
Deadline for submission of applications: July
Website: http://www.cies.org/NCS/
Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA)
Overview: The FLTA Program provides an opportunity for young, international teachers of English to refine their teaching skills, increase their English language proficiency and extend their knowledge of the cultures and customs of the United States while engaging in non-degree studies. FLTAs add an energetic and up-to-date cultural component to foreign language classes as well as to student life on U.S. campuses. This interaction makes studying and learning languages much more meaningful and real.
Deadline for submitting applications: November
Website: http://www.iie.org/
English Language Fellows
English Language Fellows (ELFs) cultivate international experience through teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language at Tunisian Universities.
Their mission consists in enhancing the English teaching capacity of Tunisian educators, providing students in all disciplines with the English communication skills they need to fully participate in the global economy and society and broadening foreign teachers’ and students’ perspectives on international issues.
English Language Fellows are hired for one academic year to work on educational projects which involve not only teaching and training junior faculty but also developing new curricula, textbooks and syllabi in consultation with faculty members. ELFs in Tunisia are also active participants in provincial outreach programs during which they attempt to share information about American values, democratic representative government, free enterprise and the rule of law.
While Fellows are most of the time placed to work at Tunisian Universities, they are more often called upon to give presentations or to lecture at Non-Governmental Organizations such as AMIDEAST/Tunis, at American Corners, at teacher-Training Institutions as well as other Related Language Education Institutions.
ELFs attempt to promote English Language Teaching products elaborated by the State Department such as the ELT Forum Magazine, e-journals and other educational resource materials on exchanges.state.gov. To know more about the English Language Fellow Program, please visit the following website: http://elf.georgetown.edu/.
E-Teacher Program
The Office of English Language Programs has been offering teachers distance education courses on Critical Thinking, Assessment, Young Learners, English for business and English for law. The courses introduce the most recent English language teaching methods and techniques, offer the opportunity to engage in an innovative distance-learning program that employs the latest in modern technology, and provide direct access to U.S. experts with whom participants might not normally have the opportunity to interact. To read more about individual courses, please go to : http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/eteacher.htm
General information for prospective E-Teacher applicants:
- There is NO cost for selected E-Teacher participants. This includes tuition and the cost of any course materials sent from the institution, including DC-ROMs and books for each participant.
- Participants should be teacher trainers or teachers who are working, or plan to work with, one of the subjects covered by the courses;
- Candidates should be highly motivated individuals who are both dedicated to their own professional development and willing to share their knowledge gained with colleagues through workshops or professional presentations;
- Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate of completion which will be sent directly from the University course providers
All Tunisian participants must be nominated through the Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Tunis.
Contacts:
If interested by the program, please contact Mr. Mohamed Sami Saaied, E-teacher Program Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis at saaieds@state.gov or by phone at 71.107.259.
English Language Specialist Program
The Office of English Language Programs (OELP) works jointly with U.S. Embassies to allow the recruitment of American academics in the fields of TESOL/TEFL and Applied Linguistics for two to four week assignments. These assignments include curriculum projects, teacher training seminars, textbook development, English for Specific Purposes, and program evaluation.
Specialists work on well-defined assignments that are identified by the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in concert with the Ministries of Education and Higher Education. Over the last couple of years and based on the needs expressed by the Tunisian government, the program has been focusing on training faculty and educators on how to integrate state of the art technology in language learning. This trend allowed English language Specialists to demonstrate best practices in using top-notch technology for the enhancement of language learning.
English Language Specialists are very often invited by the Tunisian Ministry of Education and Training to conduct a series of teacher training sessions at the Regional Vocational Training Centers. At the level of Higher Education, English Language Specialists are invited to conduct lectures and/or presentations at Higher Institutes of Languages and Universities of Letters. The “Language Village,” an immersion program for language learning that started two years ago by the Ministry of Higher Education, has also become a perfect venue for the specialists to network with students and their teachers in a place that fosters language learning.
English language Specialists’ role does not end once they leave the country. Most of the time, they are able to continue the networking with the teachers and students through web chats, blogs and through other social and professional networks. To know more about this program, please go to: http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/specialists.htm
ILEP
Initiated in 2005, the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) brings outstanding secondary teachers from the Near East, South Asia and Southeast Asia to the United States to further develop their expertise in their subject areas, enhance their teaching skills and increase their knowledge about the United States. This program is a long-term attempt to improve the quality of secondary education at participating countries and to develop professional and personal relationships between American and international teachers.