Broadening Teaching

Perspectives: TEACHER
EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
Visiting International Faculty
Program
- United States largest cultural exchange
program for teachers and schools.
- Teachers participate in the VIF program
work in the U.S. for up to three years and
then return home to share international
experiences with students and colleagues.
VIF Purposes and Beliefs
All schools should have at least one
international teacher.
All students should be exposed to a
variety of exchange teachers during
their academic careers.
All communities should have an equal
opportunity to develop globally literate
citizens to help build a foundation for
success in the global marketplace.
Fulbright Teacher Exchange
Program
- Promote mutual understanding
between the United States and countries
around the world.
- Involves a year or semester direct
exchange with a counterpart in another
country teaching the same subject at the
same level.
Inter-African Teacher
Exchanges
Provide opportunity for African
teachers to learn from the teaching
environment in other African countries.
Envisioned to create cultural
awareness and tolerance of
developments in different African
education environments.
Canadian Educators
Exchange
-Handles both student and educator
exchanges.
-Offer an opportunity to broaden their
understanding of one anothers
cultures, customs, and languages.
Two Types of Exchanges:
One Year Exchanges
- enable teachers in Alberta to swap their
jobs and homes with teachers in the U.S.,
Germany, Australia, etc.

Short-term Exchange
- exchanges occur only in spring and
summer days
Global Teachers Millennium
Awards
- Commits to improving the quality of
education in South Africa, Ghana,
Uganda, and the UK and to promote
partnership between the North and
South African countries.
These program give teachers the
opportunity to live their personal and
professional lives in another context, in
another setting, in another country, thus
strengthening the skills in
understanding diversity and
multiculturalism
TECHNOLOGY FOR
TEACHING
Roles of Technology
1. Technology provides support to the
solution of meaningful problems
2. Technology acts as a cognitive
support.
3. Technology promotes collaboration
as well as independent learning
Technology Programs for
Teaching
Stand Alone Programs
Programs Available on the Internet
Information Databases
Standandard of Technology for
Teachers
1. Technology operations and concepts
2. Planning and designing learning
environments and experiences
3. Teaching, learning, and the
curriculum
4. Assessment and evaluation
5. Productivity and professional
practice
6. Social, ethical, legal and human
issues