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January 2012
Open call for volunteers to travel abroad with EBB

Education Beyond Borders is devoted to closing the education divide through teacher professional development and community education. Our focus is on building the capacity of teachers to lead and build professional learning communities by expanding collegial networks and access to various educational resources, strategies and best practices. Due to the success of our collaborative, participatory design and implementation model, we find ourselves piloting our professional development projects with teachers located in disadvantaged regions in new districts and countries.

This experience allows primarily Canadian teachers to work alongside their peers, to "walk in their shoes." It is the hope and wish of the organizers that the connections established in each year’s journey abroad will continue well beyond the initial contact and well beyond the number of teachers involved. This year, with the variety of advanced stage and pilot projects, we will see the progression of locally trained teachers as part of the leadership/facilitation teams fulfilling our goal of building capacity by creating a self-sufficient and self-administered professional development/learning community.

Depending on the project, we will be looking for facilitators/trainers of Pedagogy/methodologies, ICT use/integration, Education reform/policy & School management, Social/global issues, English Language Acquisition, Special needs, etc. Project specifics and selection process information will be articulated in the next few weeks.

At this time we want to ask for applications for those interesting in volunteering abroad to be part of our facilitation teams. If you are interested, please download, fill in and return this application form (click here) by February 19th, 2012. Thank you.

November 2011

Application request for returning members. Download our latest newsletter below.

The 2011 Global Education Conference will be held November 14 - 18, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The 2010 Global Education Conference had 15,028 unique log-ins and presentations from 62 countries.

June 2011

Congratulations to the following educators who are planning and preparing for projects in Africa this summer:

March 2011

Volunteer with Education Beyond Borders in South Africa this summer!

Eastern Cape Province - year 2
This year's focus will involve building district ownership over professional development sessions to support learning-centred ICT integration strategies. This year will look at co-facilitating with some of the district's e-learning personnel from last year's programme to support subject specialists and classroom teachers. We are looking in particular for teachers with expertise in:
- ICT integration facilitation at both primary and secondary
- Strong experience at guiding teachers in the best use/integration of drill & practice/subject-based software to enhance learning
- Policy development/implementation and school-based visioning and integration of ICT's

- Strong teamwork dynamics a must

- Dates: Arrive in South Africa by June 24th, 2011 (sessions are June 27 to July 1st)

Western Cape Province - year 4
This project will focus strongly on leadership by our local partner, Edunova, with complete coordination in their hands and with the EBB team acting as facilitating and supporting partners. Our role will be to empower and build capacity with our local partner facilitators, and co-facilitate and support educators in their schools in townships outside of Cape Town. Project dates: July 3rd to 24th. The same team will be working both the Eastern & Western Cape Projects so besides the above selection criteria, strong online collaboration skills a must.

Deadline for applications: March 20th, 2011

Please email noble@educationbeyondborders.org with 'South Africa application' in the subject line to receive an application form. Sign up today to gain important global perspectives, to collaborate with colleagues in another country, and to help affect change and build global relationships.

December, 2010

Volunteer with Education Beyond Borders in Kenya next summer!

Laikipia, Kenya - year 3
In Laikipia, this year's focus will involve building Kenyan ownership over student-centred learning techniques. The 2011 workshops will be the first participant workshops facilitated almost entirely by Kenyan teachers. We are looking in particular for teachers with expertise in:
- Secondary English
- Primary and/or middle school
- Specific student-centred teaching methodologies (eg Project-based learning, Inquiry, Collaborative Learning, Differentiated Learning)

Naivasha, Kenya - year 4
This project will focus strongly on leadership by Kenyan facilitators, some of whom have been through three cycles of EBB training. The 2011 workshops will be the first time that we include teacher trainers in guiding us during the facilitator week. We are looking in particular for teachers with expertise in:
- Primary - grade 5-6
- English/ESL
- Facilitation / adult education background

Please email info@educationbeyondborders.org with 'Kenya application' in the subject line to receive an application form. First round of applications are due December 20th, 2010. Sign up today to gain important global perspectives, to collaborate with colleagues in another country, and to help affect change and build global relationships.

November, 2010

Global Education Conference Recordings:

Keynote presentation by Noble Kelly: Is Global Teacher Collaboration Possible?

Presentation by some of our Kenyan colleagues: Classroom Experience from Kenya

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