Teachers Take Over Korea

Did you became a teacher to have the summers off and then realized your meager salary wasn’t enough to actually go on vacations more than 60 miles from your hometown? Well, look no further: now is your chance to visit Korea, spend 12 days there and have your only responsibility be sharing the good times you had when you get back. You need not know anything about Korea, nor speak the language.

Korean Studies Workshop

• PURPOSE: To enhance mutual understanding between the people of Korea and the United States by inviting educators to visit Korea and then share their experiences with fellow Americans upon their return.

• AMOUNT: Fully-funded trip to Korea

• ELIGIBILITY: Employed full-time as a secondary (6 thru 12)teacher of social studies, OR a secondary school principal or assistant principal, OR a curriculum coordinator with influence over social studies curriculum in secondary schools, OR a textbook writer with influence over social studies curriculum or textbooks for secondary schools. Must be a US citizen and a resident of the US at the time of application.

• DEADLINE: May 4th, 2006.

The Watson Fellowship

Do you have a dream to go around the world and braid hair, study basketball as a force for change in three continents or hang out with Punk kids in Europe? Well, the Waston Fellowship seems to think ideas like that are worthy of up to $25,000. You must be a college senior graduating from one of the almost 50 participating institutions.

• PURPOSE: Grant for independent study and travel outside the U.S.

• AMOUNT: $25,000 ($35,000 if you are traveling with a spouse or dependent child).

• ELIGIBILITY: Must be a graduating college senior from one of the 50 participating institutions.

• DEADLINE: Local deadlines vary. Completed application to Watson must be submitted electronically by the fist Tuesday in November, annually.

• MORE INFORMATION: www.watsonfellowship.org