December 13 and 14, 2017 at 3:00pm in Egypt, 9:00pm in China, and 8:00am (EST) in the U.S.

Join the conversation! Meet your friends and colleagues in China, Egypt, and the United States for a two-day virtual conference on Alumni Collaboration. Each day will include dynamic presentations and scheduled time for Q&A.

Featuring presentations by TCLP Alumni!

After months of anticipation, TCLP exchange teachers arrived in Washington, DC on August 1st to begin their exchange year in the United States. Throughout the nine-day orientation, participants attended workshops that prepared them to effectively teach and motivate U.S. students, including sessions on Backward Design lesson planning, cooperative and student-centered instructional methods, Multiple Intelligences theory, and American English. Participants also worked with pedagogical experts to create demo lesson plans and had the opportunity to test them with volunteer students.

Four years ago, Etowah High School in Woodstock, Georgia became the first school in its district to offer Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language. The program started with an inaugural class of 11 students and an exchange teacher funded by TCLP. Today, the program has grown to serve 68 students and will offer 5 levels of classes in the 2017-18 academic year.

Congratulations to the 10th group of TCLP exchange teachers on an incredibly busy and fulfilling year working toward mutual understanding and critical language learning at 23 schools across the United States!

In December, TCLP teacher Mohamed El-Dwiny’s Arabic II students at John W. Lavelle Preparatory Charter School in Staten Island, New York got the opportunity to connect with their previous TCLP Arabic teacher, Amany Kasab (2015-16), and her English classroom in Egypt over Google Hangout.