Teachers Across Borders, Inc

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If you are a master educator who would rather be a traveler than a tourist---
leading a Teachers Across Borders workshop is an opportunity to meet remarkable educators, to learn about the history and cultures Southeast Asia and to share your expertise with colleagues around the world.

2008 Programs Executive Director and Program Leader: Brian Allen

Phnom Penh
Program Director: Jane Steele
Steele.jane@gmail.com
Dates: June 23 to July 4, 2008 (science fair on July 3 & 4)
APPLY ONLINE HERE

Siem Reap
Program Directors: Kathy Klug and Joanne Ihrig
kklug@aspenk12.net;joanneihrig@yahoo.com
Dates: June 23 (full day)-June 28 and travel to Phnom Penh on Sunday, June 29 to participate in the National Institute of Education science fair.

Kampong Thom
Program Director: Steve Gniel
steve.gniel@hotmail.com
August 18-August 28

Battambang
Program Director: Brian Allen
t.a.b@optusnet.com.au
January 8-January 16, 2009

Making application to run a workshop
   Please contact the program director directly.
   Applications for June /July programs close at the end of March
   Applications for Summer 2008 workshops programs close at the end of April, 2008.

PROJECTS

Cambodia "Teachers Teaching Teachers 2006"- Completed.

Sixteen volunteer teachers from the United States will travel to Cambodia in July 2006 for two week "Teachers Teaching Teachers" programs in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Master teachers will present workshops in which they share approaches to educational leadership, child-centered education, and critical thinking in various content areas.

Modeled on similar successful programs in Yangon, Myanmar during the summer of 2004 and Phnom Penh, Cambodia during the summer of 2005, over 200 teachers, professors, and students majoring in education will participate in the workshops. Participants collaborate to design teaching units in Khmer and English which illustrate teaching ideas and strategies. Workshop materials and the teaching units will be published as a teaching notebook to be shared with other educators.

While master teachers volunteer their time and many expenses involved with the program, contributions large and small are welcome for these program. Funds are needed for stipends to participating Cambodian teachers, lunches, photocopying and distribution, travel expenses and other costs associated with implementation of the program.

Textbooks for Hurricane Victims Project
Teachers need textbooks and teaching materials for hurricane victims - NEW.
Teachers Across Borders is matching teachers with extra textbooks and teaching materials with teachers who need both.

Contact TAB if you need textbooks and/or materials.

If you have extra textbooks, teaching materials, video tapes, as well as atlases, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and/or well loved library books, please contact TAB.

Teaching Library, Cambodia
Pannasastra University of Cambodia - NEW.
TAB is accepting books, journals, and teaching materials appropriate for a resource library for teachers, professors, and students preparing for a career in education. >> MORE

Teachers Teaching Teachers CAMBODIA Project
Pannasastra University of Cambodia and the National Institute of Education - Ongoing.
Seven volunteer teachers from the United States traveled to Cambodia in July 2005 for two week Teachers Teaching Teachers workshops. Master teachers shared with their Cambodian colleagues approaches to child centered education, educational leadership and critical thinking in a number of content areas. Teachers are being recruited and plans developed for a 2006 summer program. >> MORE

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Project
Una Luz en El Camino School, student lunches and teaching materials - Ongoing.
In March 2005, Teachers Across Borders, Inc. donated $500 to Sandra Tineo, Director of the school Una Luz en el Camino in the Aguas Negros barrio of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. The school educates 200 children grades K-1. The students attending this school are from 5-12 years of age and would not otherwise be able to receive an education due to distance and lack of educational facilities in this area of Dominican Republic. >> MORE

CAMBODIA Project
Royal University of Phnom Penh Internet Project, 2004-2005 - Completed.
Computers have been repaired and the lab for the faculty and students at the History and Social Science Department at the Royal University of Phnom Penh has been linked to the Internet through a Teachers Across Borders grant.. >> MORE

MYANMAR Project
Teachers Teaching Teachers Program July, 2004 - Completed.
On July, 2004, 11 U.S. teachers in various disciplines traveled to Yangon, Myanmar for a two-week program to work with Burmese teachers and the teaching faculty at the Yangon Institute of Higher Education to explore ways to integrate critical thinking skills into high school courses of study. 100 Burmese teachers and professors participated in 6 seminars related to their current and anticipated teaching assignments. >> MORE

MONGOLIA Project
University of the Humanities Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia- English Language Training Program - Ongoing.
10 years ago most faculty at the University of the Humanities Ulaanbaatar who were engaged in secondary language education were teaching Russian. Today they are teaching English. English is the most popular choice of second language instruction in Mongolian schools. However, resources for such instruction are limited and books for student purchase expensive. >> MORE

BAM, Iran Project
Mercy Corp 2004, school supplies for elementary children - Completed.
On December 26, 2003 an earthquake devastated the ancient city of Bam in Iran. The disaster took the lives of more than 40,000 people and left thousands homeless. Many schools were destroyed along with the infrastructure that had made travel to and from school and the operation of schools possible. >> MORE

Teachers Across Borders, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 non-profit, non-government organization, incorporated in Colorado.

All personnel work is on a volunteer basis, accomplished by teachers helping teachers. 100% of the moneys donated are spent on TAB Projects.

Teachers Across Borders, Inc is a non-profit U.S. corporation. All personnel work is on a volunteer basis, accomplished by teachers helping teachers.