U. S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education International and Foreign Language Education (ifle) Office Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (gpa) Program cfda 84

The Ohio State University

The objectives of the short-term seminar project are to:

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  Advance and disseminate knowledge of the Andes by providing opportunities for K-12 educators to experience firsthand the history, politics, language, and culture of the Andes;
  
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  Provide intensive Quechua language training that emphasizes regional linguistic variations, equivalent to one semester of beginner’s level university instruction; and
  
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  Contribute to the development of internationalizing curriculum that accurately and effectively brings the Andes into the classroom through standards-based approaches.
  

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   Focusing on a specific region in South America (the Andes),
   
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   Applying through the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State as a new applicant,
   
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   Providing substantive training and a thematic focus on Quechua, a priority less commonly-taught language, and
   
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   Guaranteeing that 100 percent of project participants will be K-12 teachers or administrators.
   

St. John’s University

Short-term Seminar in India: A Language and Cultural Immersion Experience
for New York City Educators

Project Type: Short-Term Seminar
Host Country: India
Amount of Time in Country: 6 weeks
Number of Participants: 14

Project Director: Dr. Yvonne Pratt-Johnson, Professor of TESOL, The School of Education, St. John’s University, 8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, New York 11439, Telephone: (718) 990-2645, Fax: (718) 990-1614, E-mail: prattjoy@stjohns.edu

Abstract: The School of Education at St. John’s University (STJ) will lead a six-week Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Seminar to West Bengal, India, July 1 to August 12, 2017. The 14 participants will include the Project Director, nine New York City school teachers (three elementary, three middle, and three high school teachers), three pre-service teachers, and a bilingual scholar/escort. This GPA seminar will provide teachers with an unparalleled immersion experience in Bengali language and West Bengal culture designed to promote their ability to deliver culturally informed and culturally relevant instruction and instructional support to students of West Bengal/Indian origins or ancestry.

Specifically, the intention behind the project is four-fold:

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   To increase participants’ knowledge of the culture and language of West Bengal;
   
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   To develop lesson plans that support and enrich the curriculum for participants’ New York City students by integrating West Bengal culture and language (Bengali) into content classes;
   
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   To develop intercultural competence skills, particularly for pre-service teachers; and
   
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   To develop a collaborative service-learning program involving STJ students and three New York City public schools that have West Bengal/Bangladeshi student populations.
   

The seminar will unfold in three phases. The pre-departure phase will consist of three full days of orientation covering aspects of West Bengal history, politics, religion, culture, language, and peoples. During the overseas phase, participants will receive intensive instruction (56 hours) in the Bengali language, participate in expertly guided field trips to sites of importance in culture, history, and the arts throughout the region, meet and converse with West Bengal educators and collect material for use in creating lesson plans with a West Bengal area-studies component. Finally, in the post-seminar phase, participants will debrief about and reflect on their experiences abroad, complete their lesson plans, and discuss how they will share the knowledge and experiences that they have gained from the project with their U.S. colleagues and students.

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