Minnesota Council of
Teachers of Mathematics

Fulbright Teacher Exchange

Sponsored by the United States Department of State, the Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange arranges: direct one-to-one classroom exchanges to over thirty countries for teachers at all levels. Most exchanges occur for an academic year. Argentina, Mexico, and the United Kingdom offer fall-semester exchanges. The United Kingdom and Morocco offer six-week exchanges.

In addition to the teacher exchanges, there are administrative exchange opportunities in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Mexico, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Thailand, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Jordan, and Uruguay currently offer opportunities to host incoming administrators during site visits to the United States. Germany offers a two-week special program for U.S. principals to study school systems there for several weeks.

The program also offers eight-week seminars in Italy or Greece for teachers of Italian, Latin, Greek or the Classics.

Prospective applicants must meet the following general eligibility requirements:
U.S. Citizenship
Fluency in English
Bachelor’s degree or higher
Be in at least third year of full-time teaching
A current full-time position

The application deadline is October 15, 2007 for the 2007-2008 program year. For more information and/or an application please visit our Web site: www.fulbrightexchanges.org or call (800)726-0479.

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