A collaborative Small Grant 2010: The Image of International Teachers and Students

Click on the photo and you will see pictures from a Collaborative Meeting in Krakow. :)

A collaborative meeting in Kraków, Poland.

The second day of our collaborative meeting in Kraków.

On snowy Sunday morning we appreciated the possibility of continuing our project work, the reason being it gave Waldek and me an occasion to reflect on TEA scholarship in the USA supported by IREX and our embasies. Waldek was hosted by State University of Nebraska and I had a pleasure to be at Nebraska University. The valuable experience we gained was the issue of our hectic discussions. What`s more, the valuable people we met for 2 months have become our great penfriends and collaborates in this project. We also appreciate next opportunity as alumni, namely a chance of hosting US TEACHER - in my case even two: Denise and Allyson - in our cities and schools. Thank you to all who support the teachers all over the world (and according to our final song), the ones who make a better life - just for our students and a better world. Feel free to share your memories from TEA PROGRAMS on our blog.

A collaborative meeting in Kraków, Poland.

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Over the weekend 10-12 December 2010 Anna and Waldek met in Kraków to work on the book-project. They corrected the layouts of all articles, sent emails to all collaborates,planned further work. In addition, they organized all articles and also contacted the publishing companies. The deadline for all corrections and articles is 22nd December I would extend it to 31 Dec 2010. We would like to ask all authors FELLOWS to finish their work, send profile pictures and photos from schools and work to Anna. Waiting for the news from you. Best regards. W&A P.S.While working Dr Joe McNulty was calling us and checking if we are making any progress. Thank you for the support :)"

Authors` Bibliographies

Dear collaborates,

I am presenting bibliographies of the people who decided to enrich our book project and share their experience with others.

Thank you for your effort and support,

Coordinator

Armenia
Varduhi Grigoryan
Quantum College, Yerevan, Armenia
Varduhi has been teaching English at Quantum College for two and a half years. She teaches students of varying English fluency through a wide range of ages. Varduhi creates ELMs for teaching English at secondary schools and organizes different trainings for her peers to develop new approaches to teaching. She received her bachelor`s degree in English from Gyumri Pedagogical Institute in 2005. 

Bangladesh
Md. Mutahar Hussain, Science teacher
Anjuman Adarsha Government High School
Netrokona, Bangladesh .
Md. Mutahar Hussain has been teaching social studies in a public secondary school in Netrokona, Bangladesh for the past 18 years. He is a convener of Students` Welfare Fund and member of the Tibbin and Milad Committee to encourage students participation in extra-curricular activities. Md Mutahar obtained a Master of Science from Chittagong University and Bachelor of Education from National University. 

El Salvador
Oscar Erick Fuentes Prudencio
Centro Cultural Salvadeño Americano Secondary School
San Miguel, El Salvador

U.S. Host University: University of Nebraska, Lincoln

He has been working as an English teacher for seven years; in a private school named Centro Cultural Salvadoreño Americano in San Miguel. He obtained his Bachelor´s Degree in English in the year 2008. He participated in the Teaching Excellence Achievement Program (TEA) Spring 2010. Oscar has new English teachers, he has been part of a radio program designed to teach English through radio, and was member of the thesis defense jury. He was one of the presenters of the National Conference for teachers of English in El Salvador and also had the opportunity to work with a group of students in a public school in the United States in the TEA program. During his free time he enjoys going out with his family, watching television, going to the movies, and meeting new people.



India
Rita Banerjee, English and History Teacher
Carmel High School
Kolkata, India 
U.S. Host University: University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 

Rita Banerjee has been teaching for 17 years. She currently teachers English literature, language, history, civics, environmental science and life skills education. Her students range in age from 11 to 18 years old. In school, she participates in teacher training, curriculum development, and induction of new teachers. She holds a meter`s masters degree in English and a bachelor`s degree in education as well as diplomas in computer education. Her hobbies are reading, watching films, and bird watching. 


Peru
Efraín Dávila Salazar
San Jose Obrero School Marianists, Trujillo, Peru.
My name is Efraín Dávila Salazar. I am 33 years old. My nationality is Peruvian. I have a
Licenciatura on Secondary Education with the Specialty of Foreign languages: English and German from the National University of Trujillo, Perú. In addition, I have finished my master thesis and will soon defend it to get the master degree on Teaching English as a Foreign Language. I am an English teacher. I have been working at San Jose Obrero School Marianists for ten years. I love teaching and I consider myself as an effective and successful teacher. Besides, I also work at El Cultural centro Peruano Americano, where I teach English as a Foreign Language. I love teaching, traveling and learning foreign languages. I also like meeting people from different countries and learning about their cultures. 

Russia
Irina Barilenko
Physico-mathematicla School Specialized Scientific Study Center
Novosibirsk, Russia

U.S. Host University: University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Irina Barilenko has been teaching English language at a school specializing in physics and math for the past 12 years. She is Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and provides training for her peers in teaching methodology. Irina received a diploma of teacher of English and German languages from Omsk State Pedagogical Institute in 1988 and a postgraduate study certificate from Novosibirsk Institute in Philology in 2008.

 
Senegal
Modou Mbaye
CEM Sikilo Quest
Kolda, Senegal
U.S.Host University: University of South Florida

Modou Mbaye has been teaching English in Kolda for the past 9 years. The age of his students range from 13 to 17 years, and on average he has about 85 students in his class. He received his bachelor of Arts degree from Cheike Anta Diop University in 1999 and his certificate of teaching from the Senegalese National Teacher Training School in 2000. 

United States
Chuck Morgan
East High School in Lincoln.
For the past 16 years he has taught Geography in the Lincoln Public School District. In his first year, he was part of a three-person team that wrote the standards and expectations for the new geography curriculum. He also helped select the textbook used by the district. Since then he has continued to be involved in making an impact in the district and on the children’s education in the area of geography. Eight years ago, he left the classroom for nine weeks as the sole writer for the new 9th grade geography curriculum and standards that were implemented district wide. Today, he is continuing to work with a panel of high school geography teachers that are focusing on the direction of today's discipline of Geography. He is proud to be making our students able to organize geography into a coherent body of knowledge, because the need for geographic knowledge is as old as humankind itself. He is one of two A.P. Human Geography teachers in LPS, (Brian Burback of North Star H.S. is the other,) certified by A.P. Central , The Geographic Educators of Nebraska, and the National Council of Geographic Education. In 2005, at the National Conference of Geographic Education, he was awarded the Distinguished Geography Teaching Award from the National Council of Geographic Educators, at the National Conference in Montgomery, AL.
Bachelors degree - Geography and History from the University of Nebraska Lincoln 1995. 
He plans to continue his quest for knowledge by beginning another Masters or a Ph. D in Geography.  

Brian Burback, East High School, Lincoln.

Dr Del Harnish, UNL University

Ms Shannon Lovett, UNL

Dr Terry Janicki, California State University. 

  A detailed timeline that confirms all project activities will be completed by April 1st, 2011.

Dear  Collaborates,

There is some information about the deadlines we are expected to meet while working on our project. Thank you for your understanding and help in meeting the deadlines and organising our project properly.

Greetings from snowy Poland,

Anna

September 2010 Online contacts with all TEA fellows involved or those who wish to be involved into the project - sharing duties, making the project expectations` clear, giving deadlines, creating our blog. Setting deadlines – especially with Dr JoeMcNulty a project professional support, partners: Waldemar Sedkowski and Guillermo Lopez Ossa.
Talking with co-authors about the articles and deadlines available to meet by them. 
Setting up `books` blog` by Guillermo Lopez Ossa and Anna Krzeminska-Kaczynska. 
To be in a contact with all authors and collaborate our work (Anna Krzeminska-Kaczynska)


October 2010 PLEASE SEND ME CONFIRMATION VIA EMAIL YOU FOR 100% WRITE AN ARTICLE TO OUR BOOK! Sending to the editor (Anna Krzeminska-Kaczynska) first drafts; then the articles also go to native speakers (correction) and Guillermo from Colombia (computer formula) and Waldemar Sedkowski - to discuss/edit.

To update our blog (Anna Krzemińska-Kaczyńska/Guillermo Lopez Ossa). 

Contact with a publishing company in Poland (1st meeting).

November 2010 Sending to the editor articles from TEA fellows; then the articles also go to native speakers (correction) and Waldemar Sedkowski - to discuss/edit.
To update our blog (Anna Krzemińska-Kaczyńska/Guillermo Lopez Ossa, Waldemar Sedkowski)
To be in a contact with all authors and collaborate our work (Anna Krzemińska-Kaczyńska ).


December 2010 
a) Sending to the editor final versions of the articles;
b) meeting: Anna Krzemińska-Kaczyńska and Waldemar Sedkowski (POLAND) will meet together to organize future actions of publishing in Poland (Krakow). Edit the final version of the book. 
c) To update our blog (Guillermo Lopez Ossa, Anna Krzemińska-Kaczyńska)
d) To send all articles to Dr Joe McNulty to read them
To be in a contact with all authors and colla

borate our final work (Anna Krzemińska-Kaczynńska). 
If there are any changes they should be corrected by the end of December. 
To send all articles to Dr Joe McNulty to read them and if needed do some corrections. 

Contact with a publishing company in Poland (2nd meeting)
December 2010/January 2011 Contact with a publishing company in Poland (3rd meeting)
After the reading by a native speaker of English, Guillermo LopezOssa will prepare the final version with final corrections and pictures included in the texts. With Waldemar Sedkowski and native speaker Hugh Bilton we will organize the details and final version of our book – ready to be printed out. 
Contact with a publishing company in Poland (4th meeting)

January/February 2011 Publishing the Book in Poland and sending to participants and country representatives` embassies (organizing parcels etc by Anna Krzemińska-Kaczyńska, Waldemar Sedkowski – Poland). That`s why there are two visits of Waldemar in Krakow. The first is needed to organize the whole process of writing, being in touch with TEA fellows, discussing books` details and the second is due to print and organize publishing and sending parcels. 

We do believe that no later than in February the book will be ready. 
To load links of our blog and put some final information about the book on University of Nabraska website ( Dr Joe McNulty). 
 March 2011 Evaluation - online questionnaire after reading our book. To load results on our `book-blog`.  

Welcome!

Dear TEA Fellows,

I am more than happy to tell you a little bit about some grant information through the blog. Hope you will be willing to work with me and create a great book about US – INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS,
Do not hesitate to contact me any time, Looking forward to reading your first drafts soon and final versions with pictures, your bibliographies by 22nd December 2010.

Good luck,

Anna