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Teachers Across Borders, Inc. will
break new ground in late June-early July offering 3 workshop programs
for teachers in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Kompong Thom, Cambodia.
TAB is seeking
teachers to lead elementary workshops and subject specific secondary
workshops in science, social studies, language arts, and mathematics.
TAB is seeking workshop leaders for ESL, administrative topics, school
libraries, technology, and educational leadership.
The workshops are two
weeks. After the workshops are done, visit the world's largest fresh
water lake, the Tonle Sap, or one of the world's architectural
masterpieces, Angkor Wat. Travel to Vietnam and Laos before you go home.
This is a chance to work with a remarkable group of educators
establishing education for a new Cambodia.
To Apply
fill out the volunteer information
here
 Workshop leaders pay their own travel expenses which are tax
deductible. Teaching facilities are good; living quarters, comfortable.
For more details about food, lodging transportation, expenses, contact
us through the web site.
As you well know, teachers have limited financial resources. If
you cannot travel this summer, please consider a small donation. $10
contributions to these summer in-service programs become stipends for
local teachers to purchase badly needed teaching materials and
equipment. Your generosity will be far reaching in essence and
appreciation. 100% of the donations support the projects. The
organization's work is accomplished through volunteer teachers helping
their colleagues.
Teachers are the primary messengers of one of life's most
precious gifts---the gift of education. Teachers Across Borders, Inc. is
an international organization of teachers dedicated to the support of
fellow teachers around the world. Teachers Across Borders, Inc. supports
curricular development and teacher training as well as acquisition of teaching materials and
provision of school infrastructure and technology.
Teachers Across Borders, Inc. (TAB) has conducted professional
development workshops in Southeast Asia since 2004.
Teachers from TAB organizations in the US and Australia
volunteer to lead workshops for teachers working with children
in fragile educational environments. TAB teachers pay their own
travel expenses or participate in local fund raisers to pay for
travel. These volunteers know that education is a key to
reducing poverty and to building family and community success.
This is one of the few organizations of teacher volunteers,
which provides large numbers of classroom teachers and
administrators with in-service programs. The need is critical.
TAB volunteers work closely with classroom teachers,
administrators and with the Cambodian Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sports (MoEYS) to develop the topics for two week
workshops.
The noble mission of Teachers Across
Borders has greatly contributed to the strengthening and
valorization of the honorable teaching profession in Cambodia.
-Dr.
Kol Pheng, Senior Minister, MoEYS |
TAB started workshops in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2005. Each year
Cambodian educators, including the Senior Minister of Education,
have requested additional workshops. Workshops topics range from
ESL and educational leadership to primary and secondary language
arts, social studies, science and math. In 2008 TAB will provide
38 workshops in 4 cities, reaching approximately 1000 Cambodian
teachers, and through these teachers improving education for
more than 150,000 Cambodian students at a cost of 2.5 cents per
student.
Cambodians are making valiant efforts to rebuild their
educational system from bottom to top. Genocide and civil war
effectively eliminated educators, universities, and schools.
Like the American frontier, teachers in small villages and
cities are frequently young people seeking in-service teacher
training, professional development, and improved classroom
materials as more children are able to go to school and stay in
school longer.
TAB supports the work of teachers through teacher education,
honorariums, curriculum development, discussion and networking.
To prepare the next generation of educators, the curriculum work
of workshop participants is disseminated in Khmer and English to
other classroom teachers.
TAB programs begin with the needs of children in the classrooms
as identified by local educators. The goal is to develop
programs to fulfill these needs. TAB workshop leaders provide
materials and model good teaching practices. Workshop leaders
actively engage Cambodian colleagues in learner-centered
teaching. Teaching problems are discussed; good ideas are
shared.
TAB collects books in a nationwide drive for libraries at 2
universities, 3 teacher training centers, and 6 secondary
schools.
TAB is committed to Cambodia for ten years. Other developing
countries in Asia and Africa have similar compelling crises in
education.
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