Vol. 4 Issue 27 – FYI – E-Teacher Scholarship Program

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, runs a program called ‘E-Teacher Scholarship Program’.

The E-Teacher Scholarship Program offers English teaching professionals living outside of the United States the opportunity to take one of seven innovative, online graduate level classes through the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the University of Oregon. The courses explore major areas of the academic specialty of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).

According to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,  the following are the benefits of this program.

“In addition to specific knowledge of each of the seven major areas of TEFL, each course:

• Introduces participants to the most recent TEFL methods and techniques.
• Engages participants in an innovative distance-learning program, employing the latest in modern technology.
• Provides participants with direct access to U.S. experts”.

To get more information on the ‘E-Teacher Scholarship Program’, please visit this site: exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/eteacher.