ELT World North America

Georgia: JeeHae Lee found her passion in a “garten” more than 5,000 miles from her South Korean home. She and her mother, Hi-Ja Kim, a school principal, traveled to Germany as part of a delegation studying the various ways countries educate children. Lee’s exploration led her to Athens, where today she serves as a lead [...]

Arizona: Pistor Middle School eighth-graders Brianna Rios, 13, Ciana Galvez, 14, and Lupita Mendiaz, 13, laugh as they are videotaped in Tucson recently to teach people in Ecuador about hip hop dancing. The bilingual dance videos will be sent to their adopted community in Ecuador. The program was approved as an O Ambassador Club, which [...]

Canada: At Braeburn Junior School, principal Monica Francis can’t believe the difference a year makes. About two thirds of her Etobicoke students speak a language other than English at home — with parents insisting it’s closer to 80% — and despite new immigrants continually arriving into the largely Somali community, their school had not a [...]

Canada: King’s Record notes that Kelly Lamrock, the Canadian Minister of Education, speaks about the Canadian education system and the efforts to improve bilingualism among students, including a new program in which English-speaking students will communicate regularly with French-speaking students from another district.
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Oregon: When Jackson County schools enroll a student who doesn’t speak English their first priority is teaching the student the language. But educators say they are also concerned with improving the student’s academic skills, a process that can be stalled during the transition to English. To help students keep up with their academic skills, the [...]

Spending your gap year teaching English as a foreign language can be rewarding and fun, notes Andy Burrows at the ELT Times. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) jobs offer a way to get to know the people of your host country in way that just travelling and passing through would not. Imagine all [...]

Mississippi: In April, a handful of Japanese students whose parents work for Toyota enrolled in the Tupelo public schools. Seven months later, the number has grown to 25, and the new students are getting on well. Through its English Language Learners program, the Tupelo Public School District already is making accommodations for more than 100 [...]

Panama & Delaware: Suzanne Tierney, an instructor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Delaware, has received a Fulbright scholar grant for a yearlong English language project at Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) in Panama City, Panama. The project, “Enhancing the Instruction of English,” includes assessing the current state of [...]

Missouri and Taiwan: Caitlin Steiner, a William Woods University senior from New Bloomfield, has been teaching children on the other side of the world to speak English. Steiner is one of 17 William Woods students participating in a semester-long webcam program to teach English to fifth-grade students at the Jian Sing Primary School in Taiwan. [...]

Wyoming and Korea: Ten Sleep, population 350, is just as connected as any place these days, and home to a new company that is outsourcing jobs not from the United States to the Far East, but in the opposite direction. Eleutian Technology hires people in towns across northern Wyoming to teach English to Koreans of [...]