2020 Summer Study Of The U.S. Institutes for Secondary Educators (SUSI)
The United States Embassy in Armenia is pleased to announce the Study of the United States Institutes for Secondary Educators 2020. The Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) for Secondary Educators is intensive post-graduate level academic program with integrated study tours whose purpose is to provide foreign secondary school educators and administrators the opportunity to deepen their understanding of U.S. society, culture, values, and institutions. The ultimate goal of the institutes is to strengthen curricula and to enhance the quality of teaching about the United States in secondary schools and other academic institutions abroad. The program will take place over the course of five weeks beginning in early June 2020.
Program description: The Study of the U.S. Institutes for Secondary Educators will provide three multinational groups of 20 experienced secondary school educators (including teachers, administrators, teacher trainers, curriculum developers, textbook writers, ministry of education officials, and others) with a deeper understanding of U.S. society, education, and culture – past and present. The focus of the Institutes will be on providing content and materials for participants to develop high school level curricula about the United States. Two of the institutes are tailored for secondary school teachers and the third institute is tailored for experienced administrators including teacher trainers, curriculum developers, textbook writers, ministry of education officials, and others. Through a combination of traditional, multi-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary approaches, program content will examine the history and evolution of U.S. institutions and values, broadly defined. The programs will also serve to illuminate contemporary political, social, and economic debates in American society. The four-week academic residencies will take place at U.S. universities and colleges campuses and will consist of a balanced series of lectures, panels, seminar discussions, readings, workshops, site visits, meetings with practitioners in the field, and cultural activities. One-week study tour to a different region of the United States will complement the academic residencies.
Program Requirements and Restrictions: All participants are expected to participate fully in the program. Selected participants must attend all lectures and organized activities and complete assigned readings. Family members and/or friends cannot accompany participants on any part of the program. The institute is not a research program.
Eligibility: Applicants should be mid-career, typically between the ages of 30-50, highly motivated and experienced secondary school teachers and administrators. Applicants are individuals who are seeking to introduce or enhance aspects of U.S. studies into their curricula or to offer specialized seminars/workshops for education professionals in U.S. studies or related fields. Priority will be given to applicants who have firm plans to enhance, update or develop courses and/or educational materials with a U.S. studies focus or component, who have no or limited prior experience in the United States, and who have a special interest and experience in the field of secondary education as demonstrated through past scholarship, accomplishments, and professional duties.
Very good knowledge of English is required as the seminars are conducted in English.
Program Funding: The U.S. Government will cover all institute costs, i.e. international travel and allowances; domestic travel and ground transportation; book, cultural, mailing and incidental allowances; admissions; housing and subsistence.
APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE E-MAILED TO THE U.S. EMBASSY IN ARMENIA at amerstudiesyerevan@state.gov NO LATER THAN SATURDAY, December 28, 2019.
Please mark “Secondary Educators” in the subject line of your email.
can be downloaded from the U.S. Embassy http://www.usa.am/cms/announcements.php. More details on the programs can be found at http://exchanges.state.gov/susi.