Message-ID: <MAC.951012201635@maine.maine.EDU> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 20:16:35 EDT From: "Dennis McConnell - UMaine, U.S.A." <mailto:mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Subject: Opportunity to Host NIS Teachers To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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Opportunity to Host a Teacher from the NIS
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The American Council of Teachers of Russian/American Council for
Collaboration in Education and Language Study (ACCTR/ACCELS) and
the United States Information Agency (USIA) are pleased to an-
nounce a program to support civics education in the Newly-Inde-
pendent States (NIS).
U.S. secondary schools are invited to apply to host English-
speaking NIS teachers selected through a merit-based competition.
Participants will be qualified teachers of history or social
studies and are expected to teach up to three classes in the U.S.
school during the 1996-97 academic year, in addition to develop-
ing a civics education project to be implemented in their home
school.
USIA funding provides teachers from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakstan, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine with a stipend, which
includes housing allowance, all travel costs, and orientation
programs. U.S. institutions must provide a faculty advisor and
an opportunity to participate in a secondary school civics educa-
tion program.
The application deadline for this program is December 15, 1995.
For application materials and more information, please contact:
ACTR/ACCELS Faculty Exchange Office
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 833-7522
Fax: (202) 833-7523
E-mail: mailto:millis@actr.org
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