The Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) provides secondary school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), social studies, math, and science with unique opportunities to develop expertise in their subject areas, enhance their teaching skills, and increase their knowledge about the United States. TEA brings outstanding secondary school teachers from Eurasia, South Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, and the Western Hemisphere to the United States to participate in a six-week professional development program which includes coursework, curriculum development, and effective teaching methodologies. This six-week program takes place at a selected U.S. university and includes a three-week internship at a U.S. secondary school so the participants can develop their practical teaching skills in a U.S. classroom. The TEA Program also gives U.S. middle school and high school teachers of these fields the opportunity to travel to the sending countries for two weeks to collaborate on joint projects and create linkages and learning partnerships between U.S. and international schools.  This program is administered by IREX and more information can be found at http://irex.org/programs/tea/index.asp