The Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching Program is designed to recognize and encourage excellence in teaching in the US and abroad. The program sends US teachers aboard and brings international teachers to the US for a semester-long program. In India the awards are open to K-12 teachers in any subject and administrators who spend at least 50% of their time in classroom teaching. The program provides a rich professional growth opportunity for participants while enhancing mutual understanding among international and US teachers, administrators, their students, and host communities. International participants are placed at a US host university which provides a broad range of resources in the teachers’ fields of teaching expertise.

The participants will enroll in advanced undergraduate or graduate level classes, team-teach in local schools and/or conduct seminars or workshops for US teachers; and engage in other teaching related activities. During the program Distinguished Teachers will work toward the completion of an action-based research project of their own design. Upon returning home, teachers will be expected to share knowledge and experience gained on the program with teachers and students in their home schools and with their communities. For International teachers the program will be open to teachers from Argentina, India, Israel, Finland, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore and South Africa, pending availability of funds.
 

How to Apply
 

The competition for 2013 is likely to be announced in summer 2012. Application material and program details will be available on this website and at USIEF offices.