May 4, 2015
A Modern Form of Travel: Teaching Exchange
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My name is Anet Brea de Cortez I am from Panama.
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And I come here as a participant of the TEA program
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given by us to us by the State Department
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of United States of America. It is
coordinated although with George Mason University
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at Fairfax, Virginia. We are learning a lot of
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current trends of education and also we are having some field experience.
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At Holmes middle school I have had a
great experience
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co-teaching with Ms. Susanne Lawver. She's a great teacher
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I know very little of the world.
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I don't get outside the United States very
often
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and so this is almost a modern form of travel
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for me because my students and I
learn together
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and so my students see me model learning
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as well as teaching and the fellows who
come here
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are highly qualified and my students
sense that almost immediately.
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Hi, I'm Mohammed Shaiful Islam
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I'm from Bangladesh. I'm an English
teacher in a government girls high school
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in Shiddhirganj.
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The TEA program is really very
wonderful program for the
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teachers who are were interested to
build up themselves as the
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teacher leader in future.
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So my name is Chris Fowler
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and I teach social studies here at
Oakton High School which is in Vienna, Virginia.
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just outside Washington, D.C. One thing
that we've learned here
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at Oakton is you become a better teacher by
watching somebody teach
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something that you don't normally engage in.
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My name is Leyla Nunez. I'm from Chile.
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I've been teaching for 22 years English as a foreign language in my country.
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and also ESL students.
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We have created mutual understanding.
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We are starting to plan, to organize, to program
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activities between Oakton School and the schools back in Chile.
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So the idea is to create dual activities with the students here and there.
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So, that's exciting!
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That also helps
the students in the classroom
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because the read from a text book and so
they
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think that you know person from this
country they must believe in this and
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they must think this way
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and then to have a real live person in
front of them saying
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you know actually this is the way that
we feel about an issue
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really enlightens the kids.
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And I also have asked to go and observe all their classes
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because I am so interested in assessment.
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I have shared with her
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many of the rubrics that we use. She
tells me that she plans to
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put those into use in her country
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Even though Suzanne is here in United
States I can
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just write to her through email and ask for advice.
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or say, Suzanne, how are you? You know. I'm here in Panama
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delighted with the warm weather. Come here. [she laughs] Something like that.
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