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April 6, 2009
 140 English teachers in Bangladesh participated in a 2-day training led by three TEA program alumni. The training was led by TEA alum Musammat Badrunesha, along with other TEA fellows Ayan Chowdhury and Debobroto Shaha. When she returned to Bangladesh after completing six weeks of professional development in the U.S. with the TEA program, Musammat was determined to do something to benefit her fellow English language teachers in Moulvibazar District. |
February 1, 2009
 The Jordanian Education System has reached a “turning point,” according to English teacher and International Leadership in Education Program alumnus Mamoun Al-Zoubi. As a teacher who was recently selected for the National Team for Designing Curricula by the Jordanian Ministry of Education for the recently founded National Institute of Education, Al-Zoubi could not be more optimistic about the progress of his country’s education system. |
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December 3, 2008
 On a recent morning at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, secondary-school teachers from Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, and the United States came together to discuss strategies to teach the Holocaust to teenagers. A few feet away, Americans, Indians, and Georgians talked about slam poetry, an urban genre of literature that is often highly political and uses injustices based on race, gender, or economic status as its subject matter. |
September 16, 2008
 As part of the Egypt Civic Education Program, IREX in partnership with the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services (CEOSS) has developed a “civic education curriculum kit” for Egyptian primary and pre-school teachers to encourage the integration of concepts such as citizenship and civic engagement, human rights, justice and equality into the classroom. The kit contains a training manual for teachers including a selection of practical exercises, activities, and games meant to develop students’ skills for effective and constructive participation in school and society. |
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June 25, 2008
 After participating in a semester-long, in-service teacher training program at various US universities, a group of international teachers selected to participate in the International Leadership in Education Program (ILEP) concluded their program in Washington, DC, where they received additional training on teacher leadership and how their indiviudal professional development experiences could be transformed and applied in their classrooms, schools, and communities back home. |
March 28, 2008
 Within six months of completing an intensive, in-service teacher training program in the United States, Indonesian English Teacher Yuna Kadarisman set out to share her experience and new teaching methodologies with hundreds of her peers in the South Sulawesi province of Indonesia, an area with limited professional development opportunities and resources for teachers. |
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October 30, 2007
 The first cohort of participants in the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) have returned to their home countries throughout Eurasia and South Asia, replete with ideas, insights, and enthusiasm from the student-centered methodologies they encountered in the United States. |
June 13, 2007
 On May 13th, International Education Program (IEP) fellows currently studying at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia traveled to the town of Plains, where they met with President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn. While in Plains, IEP fellows had the opportunity to attend President Carter's Sunday School Class at Maranatha Baptist Church. |
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June 7, 2006
 IREX has been awarded a grant by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State to administer the new International Educators Program (IEP). |
April 16, 2006
 UNESCO's "Education for All Week", April 24-30, offers the opportunity for IREX to host a regional conference in Yerevan, Armenia, on April 22-23, as part of IREX's Elementary-Level Teacher Training in Armenia (ELT) program, sponsored by the US Department of State. |
