[WSCSS] U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program Announcement

[Gary and Robyn Cressman]

Now in its fourteenth year, the U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program sends
American K-12 teachers to China to teach English in Chinese secondary
schools, and places Chinese secondary school teachers of English in American
schools to teach Chinese language and culture, and where appropriate,
English as a Second Language.
 
We seek experienced American K-12 teachers of any level and any subject who
will return to the U.S. committed to improving teaching about China in
American schools.  While in China, they teach English in Chinese secondary
schools.  The teachers leave the U.S. in late August for the school year
that begins on September 1, and are generally finished with their teaching
duties in late June.  The Chinese school year runs through early July, but
the students are reviewing for and then taking exams in which the American
teachers have no role.
 
The exchange program also brings Chinese secondary school teachers of
English to the U.S.  They spend the school year teaching Chinese language,
Chinese culture (history, literature, arts), and/or, where appropriate,
English as a Second Language.  It is not required that every school or
district both send and receive.  We are flexible, hoping to satisfy the
needs and interests of individual teachers, their schools, and their
districts. 
 
At the bottom of this email you will find an announcement about the Teachers
Exchange Program.  We would appreciate it if you would disseminate
information about the program, perhaps through newsletters and online
listservs, advising prospective applicants to write to the Teachers Exchange
Program, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, 71 West 23rd Street,
Suite 1901, New York, NY 10010-4102 or email tep at ncuscr.org
<mailto:tep at ncuscr.org>  for additional information and an application.
Interested teachers may also learn more about the program from our website:
http://www.ncuscr.org/programs/tep <http://www.ncuscr.org/programs/tep> .
The application deadline for the 2010-2011 academic year is March 1, 2011.
 
Thank you for your attention to the U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
 
Sincerely, 
 
Sara Gavryck-Ji
Program Assistant
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
71 W. 23 Street, Suite 1901
New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-645-9677 x 14
Fax: 212-645-1695
www.ncuscr.org <http://www.ncuscr.org>
 
 
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U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program
 
 
The National Committee on United States-China Relations is now seeking
applications for an exchange program for teachers in American and Chinese
schools.  This is an unusual opportunity for schools and districts wishing
to begin or to strengthen Chinese language and culture programs and for
teachers wishing to live and teach in China.
 
Since the beginning of the program during the 1996-97 school year, we have
had American teachers from across the country in ³key² (selective) secondary
schools throughout China--in Beijing; Chengdu (Sichuan); Dalian (Liaoning);
Anqing, Hefei, and Tongling (Anhui); Hohhot (Inner Mongolia); Luoyang
(Henan); and Changzhou, Jiangdu, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Yangzhou (Jiangsu).
The American teachers in China teach English as a foreign language.  The
Chinese teachers, all of whom teach English as a foreign language in China,
may teach Chinese history, language, and culture, and/or English as a second
language at participating American schools.
 
The National Committee sponsors orientation programs in the United States
and in China during the summer before the exchange year. For American
teachers this covers ³survival² Chinese, the teaching of English as a
foreign language, and an introduction to China and its schools.  The
orientation session for Chinese teachers covers the teaching of Chinese as a
foreign language, instruction on American teaching methodology, and an
introduction to the United States and its schools.
 
Those interested in the exchange should write to tep at ncuscr.org
<mailto:tep at ncuscr.org> or send a letter to the Teachers Exchange Program,
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1901,
New York, NY  10010, for more information and an application package.  The
application deadline for the 2010-2011 school year will be March 1, 2011.
 
The U.S.-China Teachers Exchange Program is funded by a major grant from the
Freeman Foundation.
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