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) [11] and 6 alumni of the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) [12] 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 [13] of the U.S. Department of State, and implemented by IREX.