SpringBoard® Reaches International Students
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SpringBoard® has made its international debut at the Modern American School in Amman, Jordan. College Board staff members held an international institute at the school in August and have helped teachers and administrators at the school for grades six–12 connect with the online SpringBoard community.
Eric Werner, a former SpringBoard-trained math teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, who is the Jordanian school’s high school math chair, had expressed interest in SpringBoard as a means of preparing more of his students for success in Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) courses.
Ammar Dekeidek, the middle school math chair of Modern American School, attended a SpringBoard “Train the Trainer” event in January to learn more about the program and how it might help the school’s 460 students.
Werner and Dekeidek worked with Clay Hensley, the College Board’s associate director for K–12
international services, and Lola Greene, senior director of SpringBoard professional development at the College Board, to help prepare and coordinate August’s initial SpringBoard Mathematics and English Language Arts institute in Amman.
At the recent training institute, Greene said, teachers and administrators moved beyond theoretical ideas and discussed practical implementation.
“We knew it would be important to map out an implementation plan with them,” she said, “because we won’t be able to go there frequently. We also have scheduled regular conference calls, and they have connected to the online community so that teachers from across the world can be in touch.”
Summer Shorts from the Office of
International Education
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| 150 EducationUSA advisers from 60 nations joined U.S. college and university representatives for the gala reception of USBT’s silver anniversary at the California African-American Museum in Los Angeles in May. |
On Memorial Day, more than 300 EducationUSA advisers and colleagues from U.S. colleges and universities and higher education organizations gathered at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Based Training Program for EducationUSA advisers. The College Board organized four days of professional development workshops for the overseas advisers, capped by an evening Anniversary Gala, in conjunction with the annual conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Hot topics included use of social media tools in recruiting and advising, U.S. study abroad program models, potential collaboration with EducationUSA centers and new marketing outreach to international students worldwide. The USBT has brought hundreds of advisers to more than 700 U.S. campuses, international education conferences and professional training in Washington, D.C., supporting their mandate to provide free, accurate and unbiased information about U.S. higher education opportunities to prospective international applicants. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of State through a cooperative agreement with the College Board. Eight new campus host groups are needed for April and October 2010 programs; contact usbt@collegeboard.org for more information.
The 10th annual Summer Institute for International Admissions in mid-June introduced 60 new counselors who work at international schools to the world of U.S. college admission. Challenged to explain the complex and varied procedures of the American educational landscape to U.S. expatriates, host country nationals and third-world country students attending their schools, the counselors eagerly absorbed the latest tips on searching for the right college, writing essays and recommendations; preparing for tests and visa interviews; and funding U.S. degrees. Held on the Georgetown University campus in Washington, D.C., the institute also featured a college fair with 50 institutions and a customized workshop on writing school profiles.
Three EducationUSA advisers experienced a new student orientation, class registration and the first three weeks of the academic year while participating in the Explore program in August. Papa Njie from the U.S. Embassy in the Gambia, Natalia Schlegel from the Vladimir regional library in Russia and Miriam Lopez from the binational center in San Jose, Costa Rica, all walked in the shoes of their students as they learned about campus life at Juniata College, SUNY Plattsburgh and James Madison University, respectively. The 2010 Explore program seeks 10 host campuses for next summer; funding is provided by the U.S. Department of State. E-mail usbt@collegeboard.org for more information.
The Reconnect program gives U.S. campus representatives the chance to visit the EducationUSA
centers abroad that had sent their own advisers to visit the U.S. through the USBT program. This summer, Steve Risch of Old Dominion University spent a week in Peru; Jennifer Cushman of Juniata College visited centers in Australia; and Cindy Gould from the University of Michigan is traveling to Slovenia and Croatia. The campus host confers with advisers, U.S. embassy officials, local universities and secondary schools during a seven–10 day program designed to strengthen partnerships between EducationUSA centers and the U.S. institutions they promote.
The College Board is pleased to announce Reconnect-Plus, a major initiative funded by the U.S. Department of State to send small delegations of U.S. higher education representatives on four 10-day trips to diverse world regions that have low participation in U.S. academic programs. The first delegation to Indonesia is currently forming now, for the Nov. 30–Dec. 13 program in Jakarta and six other cities. Participants will offer workshops and information sessions for students, families and educators to explain the U.S. admission process, campus life and academic opportunities at undergraduate and graduate levels. Later trips in 2010 will likely target the Andean region of South America, Central Asia and Africa. E-mail educationusa@collegeboard.org to
obtain an application.
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For secondary-school related inquiries regarding AP®, PSAT/NMSQT® and SAT®, and international university recognition Phone: 212-373-8738 For inquiries regarding international higher education institutions' use of the SAT, international student recruitment resources and programs for U.S. colleges and the Summer Institute for International Admissions for overseas counselors: For inquiries regarding the programs of the Puerto Rico and Latin America Office For information AP Canada |
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