World View Residential Leadership Program in Global
Education
(In Chapel Hill: June 22-27, 2003)
http://www.unc.edu/world/residential.shtml
World View’s Residential Leadership Program is a rare opportunity for
educational leaders to read, discuss, and reflect on some of the most important
issues facing the world today. The
week-long program gives special attention to globalization, population dynamics,
and emerging issues—such as terrorism. Each
day features scholarly overviews and a Socratic seminar. Participants will also
discuss plans for creating global programs in their schools and colleges.
Please contact World View if you would like to attend the 2003 program:
(919)-843-9408. The program takes
place on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus.
Duration: 1 week
Cost: sponsored, except for $250 registration fee
World View Mexico Study Visit (June 18-July 1, 2003)
http://www.unc.edu/world/study_visits.shtml
Back by popular demand, World View has chosen Mexico as the site of its annual
international study visit for 2003. The
purpose of the visit is to deepen participants’ understanding and knowledge of
Mexican life, educational systems, social institutions, and cultural traditions.
Essential features of the trip include visits to educational
institutions, guided tours of cultural, historic, and natural sites of interest,
and home stays. Participants will
visit Mexico City, Cuernavaca, Puebla, and Cholula.
Duration: 14 days
Cost: $2,500 approx.
Cross-Cultural Solutions
http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org
Cross-Cultural Solutions’s flexible international volunteer programs offer the
opportunity to come face to face with global issues and become part of
productive solutions. They have developed close partnerships with exceptional
social service pioneers in a number of host countries and sponsor projects that
focus on health care, education, and social development. Participants choose
when and where to travel and for how long (2-12 weeks, or longer).
Duration: 2-12 weeks
Cost: $1,985-$4,295 (excludes travel to and from the site)
Earthwatch Institute
http://www.earthwatch.org/
Earthwatch expeditions are ongoing research projects confronting critical and
current issues, in which participants work side-by-side with leading scientists.
In past years, the Earthwatch Education Awards Program has helped provide
over 350 students and teachers with the opportunity to participate in these
expeditions. Awards range from partial to full grants toward a project's
Share of Cost (SOC), and are awarded through a competitive application process
($20 application fee). Decisions
are made beginning in March and ending when funds are exhausted, typically by
late spring. See www.earthwatch.org/ed/fellowships.html
for more information.
Duration: 1-3 weeks
Cost: $700 to $4,000 (excludes travel to and from the site; sponsorship
available)
The Global Educators Program
http://www.global-links.org
Teach alongside an overseas colleague for 3-4 weeks during the summer and earn 6
graduate credits. The Global
Educators Program, in River Falls, WI, places American educators worldwide, at
all age/levels/disciplines. Program
costs include a $125 registration fee, an enrollment/tuition fee of $870 at the
University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, MN, airfare and living costs.
More information is available on the website, or by contacting Carol
LeBreck, Program Director: Carol.K.LeBreck@uwrf.edu.
Duration: 3-4 weeks
Cost: $995 (excludes all travel and living costs)
Global Volunteers
http://www.globalvolunteers.org/intrnprg.htm
A non-profit organization based in St. Paul, MN, that places volunteers in 150
programs in 19 countries, including the United States.
Global Volunteers’ teams work with and under the direction of local
people on projects the local community determines.
Global Volunteers' work projects encompass six primary categories: Share
an English Conversation, Teach What You Know, Nurture At-Risk Children, Improve
Basic Health-Care Options, Share Your Business Experience, Building and Painting
Projects, and Working in Libraries.
Duration: 1-3 weeks
Cost: $1,295-$2,395 (excludes all travel)
Habitat for Humanity: Global Village Program
http://www.habitat.org/GV/
Habitat for Humanity International's Global Village trips give participants a
unique opportunity to become active partners with people of another culture.
Team members work alongside members of the host community, raising awareness of
the burden of poverty housing and building decent, affordable housing worldwide.
The Global Village program is designed to provide an educational and spiritual
experience within a cross-cultural environment.
Duration:
2-4 weeks
Cost: $1,200 - $4,000 (includes
airfare, room and board, travel insurance)
Keizai Koho Fellowships
(Deadline: March 2003)
http://www.ncss.org/keizaikoho/
Ten K-12 educators will be selected to visit Japan in the summer of 2003 as
guests of the Keizai Koho Center (KKC). In
cooperation with National Council for the Social Studies, KKC has sponsored
fellowships to Japan every summer to help educators of social studies, history,
social sciences, and business learn about contemporary Japanese society to
enhance the teaching of global perspectives in U.S. and Canadian schools.
Fellows will take in Japan’s scenic beauty and cultural treasures while
pursuing an understanding of the problems and successes of contemporary Japanese
society.
Duration: fifteen days
Cost: sponsored (includes all travel and living)
Annual Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies
(Deadline: February 14, 2003)
http://www.koreasociety.org/
The Korea Society sponsors an intensive study tour of South Korea for 21 U.S.
educators. The three-week schedule
includes seminars on Korean language, history, art, and politics, as well as
opportunities for independent research and exploration.
For more information, check the website or call (212) 759-7525.
Duration: three weeks
Cost: sponsored
Mandel Teacher Fellowship Program
(In Washington, D.C. at the Holocaust Memorial Museum: August 3-8, 2003)
(Deadline: February 17, 2003)
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/
The Mandel Teacher Fellowship Program seeks to develop a national corps of
skilled secondary school educators who serve as leaders in Holocaust education
in their schools, their communities, and their professional organizations.
Up to fifteen 7th-12th grade educators who have
taught the Holocaust for a minimum of five years will be selected to participate
in a five-day, all-expense paid summer institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C. Following
the institute, fellows will create and implement an outreach project in their
schools, communities, or professional organizations.
Duration: five days
Cost: sponsored
Mesoamerica in the Classroom
(In Cuernavaca, Morelos State, Mexico: On-going two-week courses)
http://www.cemanahuac.com
The Cemanahuac Educational Community offers this self-paced, intensive study of
the Spanish language and Mesoamerican culture.
Activities include classes, readings, foods, art, music, and field study
excursions. For the sixth year,
Cemanahuac will be working with a number of professional educational
organizations to offer two-week scholarships.
The scholarship has a value of about $860 U.S., but does not include
airfare. The professional
associations currently awarding scholarships include: American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Southern Conference on Language Teaching,
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, National Association for
Bilingual Education. If you belong
to any of these organizations, please contact them for information and
registration forms.
Duration: 2 weeks
Cost: sponsored, except for airfare
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes for School and
College Teachers
(Deadline: March 1, 2003)
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html
(K-12)
http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html
(college)
Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsors summer institutes
for full-time K-12 and college faculty in the U.S.
This summer there will be 20 seminars and 9 institutes for college-level
faculty, and 17 seminars and 14 institutes for K-12 educators.
Many will be held abroad and include such topics as Oaxaca, Kenya, and
Paris. Selection committees for
seminars and institutes give first consideration to applicants who have not
participated in an NEH-supported seminar or institute in the last three years.
Detailed program information is available on the websites.
Duration: 4-6 weeks
Cost: $2,800-$3,700 to cover the majority of travel, living, and research
expenses
North Carolina's Changing Ethnic Landscape: The
Hispanic/Latino Experience
(In Cullowhee, NC: June 23-27, 2003)
The North Carolina Geographic Alliance will host a residential summer
institute for K-12 social studies teachers on the campus of the North Carolina Center for the
Advancement of Teaching. The
program will train mentor teachers on the Hispanic/Latino experience and
disseminate the results to NC teachers through regional workshops and curriculum
materials. For complete eligibility
and requirement details please contact: Dr. Douglas Wilms, Department of
Geography, East Carolina University at 252-328-4163 or wilmsd@mail.ecu.edu.
Duration: 1 week
Cost: sponsored, except for registration fee
Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships
http://www.rotary.org/foundation/educational/amb_scho/index.html
The Ambassadorial Scholarships program sponsors several types of scholarships
for individual study terms ranging from three months to several years abroad.
Qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies can apply through
their local rotary clubs. While abroad, scholars give presentations about their
homelands to Rotary clubs and other groups. Upon returning home, scholars share
with local Rotarians and others the experiences that led to greater
understanding of their host countries.
Duration: 3 months or more
Cost: sponsored
Service Civil International Voluntary Service
http://www.sci-ivs.org
Service Civil International is a non-profit network for international voluntary
service promoting global tolerance and understanding through grassroots
community service in 50 countries. Its
service visits require less out-of-pocket cost, but are somewhat more
rustic—often requiring volunteers to bring sleeping bags and tents.
Volunteers spend 2 weeks abroad with others from Europe or Asia in an
international group work camp. Participants
must be willing to live, work, and cook together with idealists from other
backgrounds and cultures.
Duration: 2 weeks
Cost: $125 (excludes travel to and from the site)
Smithsonian Journeys -Travel Adventures
http://www.collettevacations.com/smithsonian/traveladventures/
Smithsonian Journeys -Travel Adventures offer learning vacations for travelers
who seek educational excellence at a great value. Smithsonian travelers enjoy
all the advantages of group travel plus the opportunity to tailor free time.
Every program includes enriching lectures and informal commentary by study
leaders, plus excursions to the region's most distinctive and memorable sites.
Most of the itineraries feature time to either explore on one’s own or take
advantage of unique optional excursions.
Duration: 8-28 days
Cost: $1,249-$4,219 (excludes airfare, but low rates offered in conjunction with
visit)
Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers in
Washington, D.C.
(Deadline: February 18, 2003)
http://www.usip.org/ed/summerinstitute.html
The U.S. Institute of Peace’s Summer Institute is especially designed to
enhance substantive expertise and teaching skills for high school social studies
teachers. Through a competitive
process, approximately 25 teachers are selected from across the U.S. to travel
to Washington, D.C. for a week-long seminar during the summer.
Seminar topics explore the sources and responses to international
conflict, and demonstrate teaching strategies that reflect the best current
practice in the field.
Duration: one week at the end of July/beginning of August
Cost: housing and travel sponsored
Volunteer at a Library in Africa or Central America
(Deadline: January 31, 2003)
http://worldlibraries.org/itw/itwoverview.shtml
The Inform the World Program (ITW) sends volunteers from around the world to
assist rural librarians in South Africa, Guatemala, and Honduras over a
month-long period in the summer. The
volunteers conduct practical service projects determined by the needs of their
host libraries. Previous ITW volunteers have trained librarians in basic skills
such as how to inventory, weed, repair, and catalog books. An application and additional information for the 2003
programs are available on the website above.
Duration: 1 month
Cost: $2,200 (excludes travel to and from the site)