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Northern Kentucky University announced Thursday the arrival of 16 secondary-level teachers from around the globe for a semester-long professional development program funded through an International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) grant in the amount of $149,894.
The International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP), administered through the NKU College of Education and Human Services, entails NKU classroom instruction on American pedagogical techniques and co-instructor internships at Boone County, Dixie Heights, Conner and Holmes high schools.
"The ILEP Fellows program gives NKU and Northern Kentucky schools a marvelous opportunity to share our educational and regional culture with 16 outstanding international teachers from 13 different countries and to learn more about global perspectives from them," said Dr. Elaine Jarchow, dean of the NKU College of Education and Human Services.
NKU was one of five institutions selected as a host university from an extremely competitive process.
The ILEP will last the entire 2009 NKU spring semester. Participants hail from Malaysia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Venezuela, Morocco, Senegal, Brazil, Algeria, Indonesia, Philippines and Ecuador.
During the last four years, NKU has hosted two month-long English language teaching workshops for 20 United Arab Emirates pre-service teachers; two Fulbright-Hays secondary teacher exchanges for teachers from Uruguay and Thailand; one visit for Fulbright-Hays principals from Brazil; and one Egyptian post-doctoral researcher visit.
