Apply now for full scholarships for high schoolers who wish to study abroad in the near future. for summer or year. Application deadlines are approaching. NSLI-Y deadline is November 4th. (2022 graduates may apply for summer.)
Jointly funded and managed by the U.S. and German governments, the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) program provides 350 scholarships for American high school students, high school graduates in vocational fields, and young professionals for an academic year home-stay program. 250 American high school scholarship recipients will serve as "youth ambassadors" from the United States while attending a German high school and participating in educational, cultural, and civic events, including receptions and meetings with U.S. and German government officials. (For students who are residents of Montgomery County, TN, there is a special $8,000 Edelweiss Scholarship to study in Germany or Austria. If two applicants, the $8,000 may be split. See http://www.afsusa.org/scholarships-Tennessee).
The CBYX high school program is administered regionally by four well-established international exchange organizations. Connect with your regional CBYX exchange organization by visiting our website. AFS-USA implements the CBYX program for Americans applying from the following states: CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, and VT, but students from Tennessee may still apply. AFS will not be doing the paper work. For more information, contact the AFS-USA CBYX staff at 646-751-2161 or cbyx@afsusa.org.
Details about eligibility, the application timeline and more information about the program can be found at http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org.
A program of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program awards merit-based scholarships to high school students for participation in summer and academic year immersion programs in locations where the eight NSLI-Y languages are spoken. Languages include Arabic, Indonesian, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajiki), Russian, and Turkish. NSLI-Y immerses participants in the cultural life of the host country, giving them formal and informal language practice and sparking a lifetime interest in foreign languages and cultures.
Details about eligibility, the application timeline and more information about the program can be found at http://www.nsliforyouth.org. (Deadline for application is November 4th, 2021.)
A program of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad (YES) Abroad program offers full scholarships for American high school students to study for one academic year in select countries of strategic importance. Countries include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, North Macedonia, Philippines, Senegal, Thailand, and Turkey. The U.S. Department of State reserves the right to amend the country list at any time. Details about eligibility, the application timeline and more information about the program can be found at http://www.yes-abroad.org. (Deadline for application is December 8th, 2021.)
The local contact here in The Miss Tennky Area AFS PR Team (www.afsusa.org/misstennky/) for study abroad is christina.pettinelli@afsusa.org or 315-525-7182.
Have an AFS (awesome, fantastic and stupendous) day and, please, assist in letting others know of these fabulous opportunities. There are new AFSers scheduled to arrive for the second semester. Go to http://www.afusa.org/host to see their mini-bios and begin registering for hosting.
I switched careers later in life and became a Teacher. That was almost 10 years ago. I have been working on a resource that represents all the things I wish I had known when I started. Since every day yields new tings the resource continues to grow. Feel free to take a look.
I've been using Bartleby's Social Science help to make things smoother in the classroom. The reception (from both students and teachers) has been very good. I'm wondering if there are similar .gov or .org sites for Intro to Linguistics. Suggestions welcome.
How do you handle covering news and current events in classroom discussions? Do you integrate and tie-in with lesson plans, and have students review what's going on in the news outside class?
I'm asking because I send a daily news "Textletter" to hundreds of HS and college kids. We summarize the important news to catch you up on the world, and distribute it via SMS (like an email newsletter....but via text message). The news we choose is summarized clearly and simply, without bias, and only what's relevant to the age group.
I'm wondering if there's a place for it in classrooms...and a way for it to become interactive and learnable for students. The underlying software if like Mailchimp-meets-Wordpress for texting.
Digital class boards integrated with digital classroom software help to expand the nature of the content with the support of photos, illustrations, maps, graphs, games, and video. Digital boards make learning more dynamic by supporting different forms of content presentation.
Why Digital class boards are widely used?
• Increase participation: Digital whiteboard images can be saved and printed. So, students can concentrate on the topic without making notes.
• Stimulating creativity: students can write, draw or write on a digital whiteboard at the same time while class is going on. They receive feedback as well on the spot. So, students and teachers can check weak points over the topics.
• Structure the lectures: A teacher can schedule engaging learning tasks like match numbers and objects, picture and name match etc. in digital classroom software.
• Interact and share: One can interact with the activity on digital smart board to demonstrate the grasp of any subject by touching, drawing and writing. The teacher can identify the student's strengths and weaknesses.
• Access to internet resources: Teachers can easily connect with online resources such as documents and videos. Add supplements to the study materials through research online.
• Go Green: Smarts boards eliminate the process of writing, making notes on paper, or printing images and documents. Reduce the use of ink and paper and provide pollution free environment. Pen and interactive board do not harm a teacher's health as well.
I would greatly appreciate your input on how I should address the behavior of students after two weeks of absence due to illness. The Sub who covered me for 8 days ( 4 days each Block, no school on Good Friday and I worked Friday 4/26 left notes regarding unacceptable behavior of my students. You know when the Cat's away the mice will play. As simple as talking out loud to throwing paper planes with very offensive notes written on each as well as a condom stuffed with bread crumbs thrown at her !!!!! )
My intention is to not say anything. My silence was deafening on Friday. Since I don't have names even though I could easily get into a class discussion which would just take more time that we don't have considering we are approaching end of year state testing dates as well as final exam week! I just don't have the energy.
I doubt speaking to the grade level administrator will do much. So I am just going to input work turned in, those without completed assignments "0" and write referrals for the skippers and keep it moving.