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Teachers of Critical Languages Program Website

Follow-On Projects

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce support for follow-on projects to assist Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) alumni and institutions to support mutual understanding by helping to increase the number of Americans teaching and learning critical need languages..

These projects can be proposed by current or previous exchange teachers, mentor teachers, host schools, or host school districts. Projects that allow continued collaboration between schools and their exchange teachers, as well as those that contribute to or develop US schools' critical foreign language programs, can be supported with awards up to approximately $5,000. Grants will be awarded on an ongoing basis, and application materials can be found under "Document Resources" in the "Programmatic" section using the link below:

TCLP Resource Document.

Teachers of Critical Languages Follow-On Project.

Please note, the deadline is March 31, 2009, with all approved projects to be completed by July 31, 2009.

Torch Runner Will Spend Year in Shawnee Mission, KS

Published online and aired by local NBC affiliate, KSHB-TV, August 10, 2008.

Keren Wang is welcomed to Shawnee Mission, KS..

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Featured Teacher - Sharina Shilted

Sharina is from Ereenhot in Inner Mongolia, and she holds two degrees in English from Inner Mongolian Normal University. She has been teaching English and information technology at Ereenhot City Mongolian School (1780 students and 176 teachers) since 1995, and has served as a Teaching Assistant for Amity Foundation’s Teacher Training Course and for a Canadian teacher in an English Camp, both in 2007. She is her school’s facilitator for foreign visitors, and, since 2006, has taught Chinese to Mongolian orphans as well.

Featured Alumni Member - Bofa Zhong

ZHONG Bofa is from Jinagsu and holds a degree in language teaching. He has been teaching for 9 years and is head of the teaching staff at the Jiangyan No. 2 Middle School (4,000 students and 264 teachers.) A national-level demonstration school and a key school of Jiangsu Province, it is also a green school that hosts the Schools of Education and Science Technology. Mr. Zhong’s awards include “Pioneer of Our School” for outstanding performance (which he has won multiple times), and a prize from the local government for his contribution in promoting language teaching in middle school. He is in charge of the Oral English Program in his school. Mr. Zhong was hosted by the Atkinson Elementary School, Professional Development Academy, in Portland, Oregon.