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7) Toyota International Teacher Program Invites Applications for
Costa Rica Study Program

Deadline: September  7, 2007

In March 2008, the Toyota International Teacher Program will  send
twenty secondary school teachers on a fully funded ten-day  study
program to eastern Costa Rica. Administered by the Institute  of
International Education ( http://www.iie.org/ ), the program  is
designed to expose educators of all classroom disciplines to  the
diversity of Costa Rica's peoples and ecosystems in an effort  to
inspire the creative teaching of international, cultural,  and
environmental themes in U.S. schools and communities.

The program  seeks to provide educators with the opportunity to
observe, interact with,  and understand Costa Rican communities
and their efforts to preserve their  environment and culture in a
rapidly modernizing global society.

The  program will take place from February 24 to March 7, 2008
(including travel  time). Direct costs of participation
(transportation, lodging, meals, and all  program activities) will
be paid by Toyota.

To be eligible for  participation applicants must: be a U.S.
citizen at the time of application;  be employed full-time as a
teacher in grades 7-12; work in the one of the  fifty states or
the District of Columbia; have a minimum of three years,  full-
time teaching experience by the time of the program; and expect
to  continue teaching at the secondary school level through at
least the 2008-09  school year. Toyota International Teacher
Program alumni who have not  participated on a Toyota
International Teacher Program in the last five years  (2002 alumni
and before) are also eligible to apply.

Visit the IIE Web  site for complete program information.





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