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Opportunities for K-12 Teachers, College Grads, Mid-Lifers, and Other Adventurers

 

Lynn Rose lynnrose@truman.edu
Sally West swest@truman.edu
Advanced Placement Summer Institute

Opportunities for K-12 Teachers, College Grads, Mid-Lifers, and Other Adventurers

Many thanks to Chris Earley and other Missouri AP Summer Institute Participants who have supplied us with this information. Links checked 11/07. Please update, add, and correct!

Advice on living abroad

http://www.transitionsabroad.com

Advice on moving and/or living abroad for children

http://www.branchor.com/

All Museum Openings in the world:

www.museumjobs.com

country-specific residential advice

http://www.expats.com/site/

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

www.crowcanyon.org

Eco-Jobs: www.Greenjobs.com www.idealist.org

Earthwatch www.earthwatch.org

East Asia Resource Center at U of Washington http://jsis.washington.edu/earc/

East West Center for Honolulu www.eastwestcenter.org

Education Advocate: www.copaa.net

Educational Tours (take your own students abroad with this program; teachers travel free) www.eftours.com

Expat Blog

http://www.expat-blog.com/

Foreign service jobs

http://www.careers.state.gov/

Fulbright Hayes Seminar Abroad (4-6 week summer seminar) www.ed.gov/programs

Fulbright Hayes Teacher Exchange Program (one-year program) www.Fulbrightexchanges.org

Fundraising careers: www.afpnet.org

Genetics Counselor (requires Masters): www.nsgc.org

Goethe Institute (three-week teacher study in Germany)

http://www.goethe.de/enindex.htm

Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teacher Training Program (3-4 weeks, Poland and Israel):

c/o Jewish Labor Committee

25 East 21st St.

New York, NY 10010

Institute of International Education Portal www.iie.org/pgms

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race www.iditarod.com

Jobs all over the world (cumbersome but worth it)

http://www.monster.com/geo/siteselection.asp

Jobs abroad with focus on teaching ESL

http://www.transitionsabraod.com/

Landscape Architect (licensing varies state by state): www.asla.org

National Council for Social Studies (fellowships to Japan) www.socialstudies.org/

National Consortium for teaching Asia http://NCTAsia.org

National Endowment for the Humanities www.neh.gov/projects/

National Endowment for the Humanities (summer sessions) http://www.neh.gov/projects/si-school.html

Nonprofit work abroad

http://www.idealist.org/

Oxbridge Academic www.oxbridgeprograms.com

Religious Leadership (many faiths and beliefs) www.beliefnet.org

Searchable archives and discussion forums on moving to another country

http://www.expatsexchange.com/

Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies (3-week seminar in Korea) www.koreasociety.org

Toyota International Teacher Program (2-week study in Japan for teachers who live in states with Toyota plants: CA, IN, KY, MI, MO, WV, www.iie.org/pgms/Toyota

Women’s networks abroad

http://www.expatwomen.com/

and

http://www.fawco.org/

TSU Career Center