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Most of us are familiar with student exchange programs. These allow students to attend school in a foreign country to experience the local culture.
I propose a teacher exchange program to accomplish much the same thing, but on a larger scale. Much academic curriculae is portable - local history
and, perhaps, language courses excepted, though even these would be beneficial to share.
Teachers in the volunteer program could rotate ever two years or so. The entire program could be administered by the U.N. or some global teaching organization. The only real restrictions would be the safety of the teachers and the assurance that the teacher was qualified to teach a particular subject.
Fulbright program
http://www.grad.usd...rnational/ftep.html
[UnaBubba, Apr 19 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Manitoba program
http://www.edu.gov....profdev/teachexchg/
[UnaBubba, Apr 19 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Australian program
http://ats.com.au/~hoddo/
Links to 15 or so similar programs [UnaBubba, Apr 19 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Transitions Abroad
http://www.transiti...ork/esl/index.shtml
Give a little, get a little -- be a displaced USAin 'war on terror' refugee. [reensure, Apr 19 2002]
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Baked. Many Aussie teachers exchange regularly with British and Canadian teachers. Same language, you see. |
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I'll have you p, in exchange for about; lets see 3 or 4 or ours! <g> |
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[UnaBubba] They've also chosen three of four countries which have the least differentiation in culture. |
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[po] I'm packing my bags, but I'm guessing we're getting the better end of the bargain. |
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That's because they are key member nations of the British Commonwealth, which has a policy of recognising many of the other's professional qualifications. |
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I get your meaning though. There are programs in existence, so I presumed you were not aware of any. We believe there are significant cultural differences between us and the other three countries participating. I imagine language is a major obstacle to fuller implementation of your idea, as is the unwillingness of your government to allow foreign nationals to usurp local jobs. |
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I should have put this under culture to begin with. I'll mull it some and may move it later (unless an admin beats me to it). |
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I don't see an usurption of local employment as all participation would be voluntary (for the foreign teacher as well as the local school district) and a local teacher would be just as eligible to participate elsewhere. I concur that there may be some barriers which are simply too large to overcome. |
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\\Same language, you see\\\\\
Thats a matter of opinion ;-) |
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I'm sure. We get quite a lot of British television here. I swear most of the UK doesn't *actually* speak English. |
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'Ere, now, 'omey: Toss your wellies and anorak in the boot with the spanner and torch and Bob's your uncle. Mind the barbie: it's totally off hook. |
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I've brought lollies, crisps, chips, butties, pops, bangers and custard for the picnic. Got a bumbershoot? |
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Hell's fire, sounds like a windbag at a dog dance. Open the door, quick, get him in here afore the neighbors figure we done lost our minds. |
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Phoenix is referring to his Auntie Ella |
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phoenix, knock me up when you leave. |
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As I understand it, British folks do not mind being told they are homely. (I could be wrong though - there might be a few who would be 'quite pleased'.) |
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We had an American teacher from an exchange program at my school once. He supervised an afternoon session of "double football" during which it became clear he had absolutely no idea what any of the rules were. This allowed all manner of vicious, scything tackles and sporadic use of the hands to infiltrate the "beautiful game". It's a wonder no-one was killed. Good work I say. |
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[waugsqueke] See? An American teacher would get canned (not caned) for saying that. |
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[For the admins] Although the annotations have deteriorated into an English discrepancy dialog, the idea encompasses somewhat more than that. |
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Clutching at straws methinks. |
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There is a very good little phrasebook for English as spoken across Britain. Corruptions and slang and dialects are quite well served by it. I only flicked through but I did notice it had a serious section on the growth of the word 'innit' and the socio-cultural factors which have helped its inception. The phrasebook is published by Lonely Planet. I hope they do phrasebooks for other languages. By the way, croissant for the exchange program, although not for language teaching; I have read that it is better *not* to learn a language from a native speaker unless you are immersing yourself in it. |
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<drool> Mmmm...alphabet soup</drool> |
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Waiter, there's a fly in my alphabet soup.
"It's filling in for the apostrophe sir"
(Joke stolen from Kermit the Frog) |
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UB: " the unwillingness of your government to allow foreign nationals to usurp local jobs." |
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Possibly true for some jobs, but when it comes to teaching and nursing the Brit govt is actively recruiting from all over the world, in a desperate bid to fill the gaps. There was a period last year when some schools were threatening to close down one or two days a week from lack of staff. Recently there were reports in the tabloids of teachers recruited from 3rd world countries returning in disgust at the standards in UK classrooms, and the behaviour of the kids in particular. |
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BM: It gets better, the more often you tell it. |
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I don't think I could be a schoolteacher. I'd throttle one of the little brats in the first hour of contact time. |
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Maybe recruiting teachers from the third world (no offence intended to anyone) is the way forward for British schools-I bet members of Zanu PF could keep order in the classroom. |
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Ditto. I have enough trouble with my adults. |
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there is an overseas qualification course now. some NZ and Australian teachers are not qualified to teach here without doing it. |
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Try these peole they provide American teachers with jobs in the Uk at full pay. I know a couple of my friends who have done it and loved it. They provide work permits and positons, and all kind of advice. |
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