Selection and Notification

So it began a few months before 28 March, 2013, but the 28th is when I received the email stating....
"Congratulations on your selection for the 2013 India Summer Teacher Program!"  That put an end to wondering if I was accepted or if I had to make other plans for the summer.  I am 1 of 10 very lucky teachers in the United States accepted into the program this year.

And so, I began to plan for what I expect will be one of the most exciting and challenging events of my life.  In a program sponsored by the US State Department and the American Councils for International Education and Fulbright, I will be working with an Indian counterpart for five weeks teaching in Kolkata, India.

I will be teaching at the Loreto Day School, Sealdah on A.J. C. Bose Road.  I will be teaching classes 6, 7, 8, and 9, so it will be a bit of a change working with the younger students.  I hope it is not like my "wonderful" times teaching middle school in Cerritos a few years ago.  I survived, but man teachers of middle school deserve hazardous duty pay!!!

I will be teaching some topics that I have not covered in a long while, but looks like it will be fun.  Everything from magnetism to organ systems of the toad and man, to animal and plant circulation.  I am looking forward to sharing some strategies and techniques with my counterpart and learning some new ideas and methods for involving the students in their own education.