Description
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces an open competition for a cooperative agreement to manage the FY 2019 Workshops for Youth Leaders in English Teaching (WYLET) program. The program aims to provide training to develop skills and knowledge about English teaching to participants and establish substantive on-going support to alumni to become teachers of English. The project will offer three one-week workshops focused on teaching English as a foreign language yearly. The participants will be selected international high school students studying in the United States in the FLEX and YES academic year exchange programs funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
• The program will provide participants with a theoretical framework underpinned by site visits that illustrate methods and strategies of practical implementation.
• The program will help the participants develop leadership skills, such as public speaking, team-building, and goal-setting, so that they are prepared to access resources, establish networks, and begin to organize teaching opportunities after they return home.
• The award recipient will be expected to work with the FLEX and YES in-country implementers to negotiate ways to assist in supporting the workshop alumni.
• The program will include substantive follow-on activities and technical support to ensure participants are successful in their efforts to utilize local resources and engage in both formal and informal English-teaching activities in their home countries.