Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): Three teachers from Nagaland participated in the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) in the US. Christina from Little Star School, Dimapur, Tonika Yepthomi from Government High School, Diphuphar B, and Rev. Fr. Francis Cheerangal, Ph. D from St. Christopher School, Chessore were among the six teachers from India to participate in a semester-long ILEP.
A press release issued by Rev. Fr. Francis Cheerangal said that the program brings in outstanding secondary teachers from the Near East, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa and South America to the United States to further develop expertise in their subject areas, enhance teaching skills and increase their knowledge about the United States. It provides the teachers from across the globe with a direct experience of US education system and its dynamics.
The host universities for 2016 were Arizona State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, James Madison University, Ohio and Kent University. The university schedule included course work in teaching methodologies, lesson planning, teaching strategies for the home classroom environment, teacher leadership and instruction technology. The outreach and exposure programmes to New York, Washington and other cities and prominent places of interest added great taste to the training, the release said.
The program is one of the many initiatives of the US Department of State, channeled through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), to foster mutual understanding between the United States and other countries through international education and training programs.
The Indian contact point is USIEF (United States-India Educational Foundation). They pave variety of opportunities with its focal point on administrating the Fulbright Program to Indian and America students, faculty and professionals, encouraging international engagement of Fulbright scholars; advising students in India of higher education opportunities in the United States and linking higher education institutions in the USA and India.
