Fellow Program
Fellows are experienced and dedicated English language educators with an MA in TESOL or related field. Fellows have up to 10-month, in-person assignments around the world. Projects include English language teaching, teacher training, and daily opportunities for cultural exchange.
What Do Fellows Do?
This Fellow developed unique workshops and conversation clubs in Mexico.
Take a glimpse at a Fellow’s daily life in Montenegro as he teaches, trains, and explores!
A Fellow in India connected with educators through Cultural Events and Collaborations.
Fellows are frequent plenary speakers at teachers’ association conferences.
Fellow primary duties often include teaching undergraduate language and methodology classes and leading clubs.
Fellows live in the communities where they work, making new friends among neighbors every day.
In Togo, this workshop combined creating videos for the internet and promoting critical thinking.
Discovering new cuisines is one of the great pleasures of being a Fellow.
If you learn a local instrument, such as the Kazakh dombyra, you too might be interviewed on national TV.
Fellows are shoppers, whether searching for ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner at the American Corner or for souvenirs.
Providing pre- and in-service professional development workshops for local educators is a mainstay of the Fellow schedule.
Fellows are often asked to organize an activity that is completely new to them, for example, an inter-class debate competition.
Fellows can often incorporate personal interests in their projects, for example, sports and public diplomacy.