Global Updates From World View
May 2005
International Opportunities for Educators
Are you looking for an exciting international experience for this summer? Below are several opportunities for teachers. Many programs combine service learning with international travel.
Cross-Cultural Solutions
Cross-Cultural solutions 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 can choose from almost 200 start dates and from 10 countries.
Duration: 2-12 weeks
Cost: $2,279 - $4,873 (excludes travel to and from the site)
www.crossculturalsolutions.org
Earthwatch Institute
Earthwatch expeditions allow participants to 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 is 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.
Duration: 1-3 weeks
Cost: $1,600 - $4,000 (excludes travel to and from the site; sponsorship available)
www.earthwatch.org
Global Educators Program
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@global-links.org
Duration: 3-4 weeks
Cost: $995 (excludes all travel and living costs)
www.globallinks.org
Global Volunteers
A non-profit organization based in St. Paul Minnesota that places volunteers in 150 programs in 20 countries, including the United States. Global Volunteers’ teams work on projects identified and managed by local people. Projects encompass six primary categories: teaching English Conversation, Improving basic health-care services, building and painting projects, tutoring and advancing literacy, caring for disabled or orphaned children, and protecting the environment.
Duration: 1-3 weeks
Cost: $1,370-$2,750
www.globalvolunteers.org
Global Volunteer Network
The Global Volunteer Network offers volunteer opportunities in community projects throughout the world. They currently provide volunteer programs through our partner organizations in China, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam.
Duration: most programs are 2-12 weeks
Cost: varies depending on country of program and length of stay.
www.volunteer.org.nz
Habitat for Humanity: Global Village Program
Habitat for Humanity International’s Global Village trips allows participants a unique opportunity to become active partners with people of another culture. Team members work alongside members of the host country, 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: $1,000 - $2,200 (includes room and board, travel insurance, in country transportation and a donation to the project)
www.habitat.org/gv
Mesoamerica in the Classroom
(In Cuernavaca , Mexico : On-Going two-week courses)
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. Cemanahuac works with a number of professional educational organizations to offer two-week scholarships. The scholarship has a value of about $860, but does not include airfare. The professional associations currently awarding scholarships include: American Association of Teachers or Spanish and Portuguese, Southern Conference on Language Teaching, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and National Association for Bilingual Education. If you belong to any of these organizations, contact them for information and registration forms.
Duration: 2 weeks
Cost: sponsored, except for airfare
www.cemanahuac.com
Operations Crossroads/The Africa Project
Operations Crossroads in a cross-cultural exchange program offering seven-week volunteer opportunities in various African countries. All projects are community-initiated, so participants will live and work with hosts who have designed the project. Projects fall into five categories: community construction/development, women in development, agriculture/reforestation, community medical or health outreach, and education/training projects.
Duration: 7 weeks
Cost: $3,500 (includes airfare)
http://operationcrossroadsafrica.org/05/mainmenu.html
Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships
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.
www.rotary.org/foundation/educational/amb_scho/index.html
Service Civil International Voluntary Service
Service Civil International is a non-profit network for 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)
www.sci-ivs.org
Smithsonian Journeys – Travel Adventures
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)
www.collettevacations.com/smithsonian/traveladventures
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
SEASSI is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals. For the summers 2005 through 2009, SEASSI will be held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instruction is offered in the following languages at the first, second, and third year levels: Burmese, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese. Each language course is equivalent to two semesters of study, with full academic year credit. Instruction is given in small individualized groups taught by a team consisting of a coordinator (usually a linguist specializing in Southeast Asian language pedagogy) and teachers who are native speakers.
Duration: 8 weeks
Cost: $2,500 (multiple scholarships available)
http://wisinfo.doit.wisc.edu/seassi/index.htmc
World Teach at the Center for International Development
WorldTeach is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based at Harvard University which provides opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing countries. In addition to year-long programs, World Teach also offers 2-month service programs in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Namibia, Poland, South Africa, and starting in 2006 they will have a program in China. Because WorldTeach receives no income from government grants or an endowment, they ask each volunteer to contribute or raise funds to cover the cost of their placement and support in these countries, while the host community provides housing and a small stipend.
Duration: 2 months
Cost: $3,990 (includes airfare)
www.worldteach.org
Do you have information to share?
Do you have information that you would like to share with other educators across the state? You are welcome to submit interesting global education programs that are going on in your schools, announcements about global education seminars, new resources that others might find interesting, etc. Please email Julie at kinnaird@unc.edu with your "update-worthy" items!
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