TESOL_Int+Ed

===__**ELL and Teaching Abroad **__ ===  PROPOSAL: media type="custom" key="2689593" ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: media type="custom" key="2689603"

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Sheila Terry Jen Harkness Shea Johnson Rachel Armock Hannah Nagi







 What do we want to know about teaching abroad? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What do you wish you knew before teaching abroad?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Who is funding your materials (i.e.: books, pencils, paper)?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Do you use any of your own materials?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What is it like to teach students from such different cultures?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">How do you find a "common ground" with your students in order to connect to students personally, intellectually, or otherwise?

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Liz Rago - Works on the administrative end of a non-American, English-speaking school in Queretaro, Mexico.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sean Addley - Brand new TESOL teacher in Dubai. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Severino Polanco - Community member and parent of a student in an English-speaking school in the Dominican Republic.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Brad Kingston - Peace Corps volunteer, teaching English and aiding the English department in a school in Mongolica.

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**International Teaching Employment**

International Schools Services http://www.iss.edu/index.asp

University of Northern Iowa Overseas Placement Service for Educators http://www.uni.edu/placement/overseas/

Teach Abroad [|http://www.teachabroad.com]

Oxford Seminars-TESOL Certification http://www.oxfordseminars.com/Tesol/Pages/ESL/teach_english_overseas.php?region=US&ad=TESOL/TESL&id=3&num=23&page=7&gclid=CNnGoJLXlZYCFQZlswodBh4mFw

Council on International Educational Exchange [|CIEE website]


 * International Teaching Volunteer Opportunities**

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Peace Corps [|http://www.peacecorps.gov]

World Teach http://www.worldteach.org/

1307 New York Avenue, NW, Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20005-4701 Tel: 202/737-3699 Fax: 202/737-3657 Email: inbox@nafsa.org http://www.nafsa.org/ Maintains up-dated lists of more than1,000 English-speaking schools and colleges abroad that offer teaching and administrative positions to American and Canadian educators. State certification is not always necessary. There is a small fee for application information for the countries of your choice. To obtain a free descriptive brochure, write to: FOWT P.O. Box 1049 San Diego, CA 92112-1049 Tel: 800/503-7436 or 619/224-2365 http://www.fowt.com/ Provides opportunities to qualified teachers currently employed in schools, colleges, and universities to participate in a 1-year (sometimes 1-semester) direct exchange of positions with teachers from other countries during an academic year or to attend seminars abroad during the summer. http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org/ A private, non-profit organization founded in 1955 to serve American international schools overseas. The Princeton office of ISS is staffed by professionals experienced in the field of international education. ISS also employs teachers and administrators in the schools it operates worldwide. ISS services include establishing and operating international schools, recruiting and placing teachers and administrators, consulting, financial management, purchasing and shipping instructional materials, supplies, and equipment for schools, colleges, and universities, publishing, foundations management, and facility planning. ISS 15 Roszel Road P.O. Box 5910 Princeton, NJ 08543 Tel: 609/452-0990 E-mail: iss@iss.edu http://www.iss.edu/ Information on opportunities for employment in elementary and secondary schools on United States military bases around the world and application forms are provided in annual editions of the booklet, Overseas Employment Opportunities for Educators, available from: Department of Defense Dependents Schools Recruitment Unit 4040 North Fairfax drive Arlington, VA 22203-1634 Tel: 703/696-3067 http://www.odedodea.edu/pers/employment/ Listings of private schools overseas with programs from preschool through secondary levels and names of school personnel to contact are available in the booklet, Overseas American-Sponsored Elementary Schools Assisted by the U.S. Department of State. Fact Sheets with details on the schools listed in the booklet are also available. Send requests to: Office of Overseas Schools Room 245 SA-29 U.S. Department of State Washington, DC 20522-2902 Tel: 703/875-7800 http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/schools/oteaching.html
 * International Teaching Organizations**
 * NAFSA/Association of International Educators
 * Friends of World Teaching
 * Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
 * International Schools Services (ISS)
 * U.S. Department of Defense Teacher Recruitment
 * U.S. Department of State

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I made a google doc of sites I found (I noticed some overlap, but we can sort that out later). I hope it works! If not, I'll just copy and paste it again. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dcmgv9n7_17dfqvdvcf&hl=en