Fall 2012 Teacher Small Grants Awards Announced

IREX is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2012 TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grants competition. IREX, in conjunction with an independent selection committee and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, selected 10 alumni of the Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) and 6 alumni of the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) to receive funding to support their original small grant project ideas.

All alumni of the TEA and ILEP programs are eligible to apply for small grants, which support projects benefitting secondary education in their home countries. Projects are awarded twice a year. Projects awarded this cycle include a car safety project in Uganda, a workshop on technology and creative teaching methods for English as a Foreign Language in Ukraine, a mobile science laboratory in the Philippines, and the launching of a handicrafts cooperative for disabled students in Kyrgyzstan. See below for a complete list of Small Grant awardees and their projects.

Congratulations and good luck to all the grant winners as they begin implementing their projects. The next deadline for TEA/ILEP Alumni Small Grant applications is February 1, 2013.

TEA and ILEP Alumni Small Grant Recipients, Fall 2012 

Rumena Afroza (TEA 2007, Bangladesh): Training Workshop on “Listening and Speaking Skills”

Vesselina Antonova (TEA 2010, Bulgaria): English Teachers Resource Center

Musammat Badrunnesha (TEA 2007, Bangladesh): Increasing Democratic Attitude in Underdeveloped High School

Rita Banerjee (TEA 2010, India): Human Rights and Literacy

Eman Irsheid (ILEP 2009, Jordan): Establishing English Resource Room

Vincent Kizza (ILEP 2011, Uganda): Car Safety Project

Shaji Mani (ILEP 2008, India): Swabhiman - Self-Respect through Self-Empowerment

Modou Mbaye (TEA 2010, Senegal): A Resource Center for Teachers and Students

Ana Mirana (ILEP 2009, Philippines): Launching of the Mobile Science Laboratory

Rajesh Moorani (TEA 2011, Pakistan): Capacity Building and Professional Development of the ESL Teachers

Agus Muhtar (ILEP 2012, Indonesia): Teacher Training: Developing Multimedia Interactive Learning Tools for Science

Ratbu Satarova (TEA 2007, Kyrgyzstan): Disabled Children's Handicrafts Cooperative

Astra Shekenbaeva (TEA 2008, Kyrgyzstan): Innovative Teaching Methods for Motivated Teachers

Shanti Subramaniam (ILEP 2007, Malaysia): Enrichment through English Camp

Ahmed Waquas (TEA 2011, Pakistan): Get Healthy

Maryna Zamotailova (TEA 2011, Ukraine): Teacher Training Workshop on Creative Teaching Methods for English as a Foreign Language Instructors

TEA and ILEP are programs of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, and implemented by IREX.