Edu 368/369 Intercultural Field Experience / Edm 536B Field Immersion in Multicultural

POSSIBILITIES FOR JAN TERM 2011

EDU 368/369 INTERCULTURAL FIELD EXPERIENCE / EDM 536B FIELD IMMERSION IN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

Please note that we begin work on the sites and arrangements almost a year in advance. Therefore, costs, supervisors, and specific details may range from relatively complete at this time to very limited; there may be some fee changes. See program supervisors listed below for more details about specific sites. All programs have a $50 lab fee. This is added on to your student account in December. Also note that the purpose of the program is that students will have an intercultural experience, not particularly a grade level experience. You are welcome to work outside your certification levels during Jan Term, and may need to be placed outside your certification level in some cases. Because one of the program aims is to deepen and broaden your experiences, our goal is to find a placement for you that is unlike other field experiences you have had. Remember this is an intercultural experience; not a grade or subject area experience.

Placement: / Program Type: / Program Information:
Arusha, Tanzania / Faculty-Led / In this Jan Term study program to Arusha, Tanzania, will be an especially good site for students interested in ESL. While students travel and learn, they will also engage directly with the native Africans and through home stays and service learning activities in local orphanages and schools. In addition to academics, co-curricular activities may include: sightseeing to various historic sites including Tarangiri National Park and Masaai Village center, and the Arusha cultural market and trade center.

• Number of Students: 8 minimum - 10
• Estimated Cost: $4500 (includes airfare from Spokane, two meals a day, housing, and cultural excursions) + $50 lab fee. Early Bird Deadline: If all paperwork and fees are paid on-time you will receive $100 back.
• Contact: Ann Teberg, Dixon 310, 777-4410

San Francisco / Faculty- Led / This is an absolutely wonderful program where the students teach in the San Francisco City Schools. There are critical shortages of teachers in the nation’s urban schools. This is an opportunity to learn what it might be like teaching in an urban, multicultural setting. Students live in a residence hostel near the Tenderloin District. Teaching assignments are at all levels with a very diverse population of students.

• Number of Students: 8 minimum – 16
• Estimated Cost: about $1000 ($900 with early bird special) includes room and partial board+ transportation and personal expenses + $50 lab fee. This doesn’t include flight to San Francisco.
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

Seattle / Faculty-Led / Our JT program offered in Seattle provides students with an experience on the west side. Students will live in the American Hotel, participate in diverse schools with high numbers of low-income or at risk students, ELL learners, and recent immigrants. Weekend activities are arranged to explore this phenomenal city right next door. This is a trip offered for the first time in 2011.

• Number of Students: 8 minimum – 16
• Estimated Cost: about $1000 ($900 with early bird special) includes room and transportation expenses + $50 lab fee. This doesn’t include flight to Spokane.
• Contact: Bill Safstrom, or Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

Albuquerque, New Mexico / Whitworth Arranged / Faculty-Led / Menaul School is a private Presbyterian boarding school for Native American youth. It is a college preparatory school for grades 6-12. Students will be housed in a newly remodeled faculty housing complex at the school. There will be two students to a room with a kitchen and a large sitting room on a separate floor. If faculty-led, there will be some planned excursions… one to Santa Fe and possibly a weekend visit to the Acoma Pueblo.

• Number of Students: 8 minimum (faculty led)
• Cost: $50.00 lab fee + Airfare to Albuquerque (you arrange independently)+ $35/day for room and board.
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307 , 777-3450

Kazakhstan / Whitworth Arranged/
International / Tim Kruger is the director of QSI International School of Astana in Kazakhstan (borders Russia and China). Tim is a graduate of the MIT program. Presently there are 35 students ages 3-13, enrolled in the school. The tuition is approximately $17,000 and the school serves many children of oil tycoons. The average income in Kazakhstan is about $5,000 a year. The temperature will be hovering around 25 degrees below zero in January. Tim will set up host family stays for the Whitworth students. Kazakhstan is considered the Dubai of Central Asia.

• Number of Students: 2 minimum-5

• Estimated Cost: $50 lab fee +Airfare (around $2,000-$2500)+ visa costs
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

Korea / Whitworth Arranged/
International / This site provides a wide variety of experiences at Sang Rok Children’s Home in Seoul, Korea. Sang Rok orphanage provides care for about 80 children ages 4-18. We have sent Whitworth students to Sang Rok for 18 years! Whitworth students live with the children or in an apartment on the Sang Rok grounds, and teach English in the morning and afternoon. There is a limited amount of English spoken at the orphanage, though the director Mr. Chung Ha Boo, your supervisor, speaks some. Mr. Boo is a Christian who involves students in the Christian Church in Korea. This is a tremendous opportunity for cultural immersion. Cost includes meals at the orphanage, “room”, and sometimes a few cultural trips. We expect that students will gather supplies for the orphanage (and for their teaching) through their churches, friends, and community.

• Number of Students: 2 minimum-5

• Estimated Cost: $900 + $50 lab fee +Airfare
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

Independent Placements / Independent / Some students are able to make their own placements in schools. Through the Jan Term program, we hope students deepen and broaden their experiences with diversity. Therefore, students are rarely given permission to work in their home schools unless this is a very different experience for them. (For example, Hawaiian students working in Hawaii are discouraged.) Students in independent placements have an additional application to complete. The site you propose goes through a committee for approval. Once your site has been approved, it is your responsibility to make your own arrangements. The cooperating school fills out a form to verify that they will host you for the month. You will be provided with a packet of information for your cooperating teacher and principal when the placement is confirmed in the fall. If you’d like to begin working on a placement this summer, please see the blackboard course for all the documents you will need. Some sites which are acceptable include those with large numbers of low income families (at least 65% free/reduced hot lunch statistics), ESL classes, or schools with at least 65% minority populations. You may also wish to do an international independent placement. Please see the application for guidelines.

• Cost: Students pay for their own costs plus $50 lab fee
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

Tribal Schools: Coeur d’Alene or Wellpinit / Local / This school is operated by the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, on its reservation, for tribal elementary students. It is located in DeSmet Idaho, which is south of Coeur d’Alene.
The Wellpinit School District serves all students on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The district has about 570 students. The student body enjoys one of the most technologically advanced schools in Eastern Washington. This district is about an hour and twenty minutes north west of Spokane.

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• Cost: $50 lab fee
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon, 777-3450

Spokane Skills Center – On Track Program / Local / Since 1982, the Spokane Skills Center has fulfilled a need for high school aged technical and life skills training in Spokane, Washington. The Skills Center is affiliated with11 school districts in eastern Washington. The training provided at the Skills Center can be accomplished alongside high school courses and can be used to earn college credit. Most importantly the skills taught here will prepare students to work with others, to understand procedure and operations, and to gain hands-on training that can be used to start a career.

• Cost: $50 lab fee
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

Spokane Elementary and Secondary Schools / Local / There are a number of possibilities in both elementary and secondary placements such as regular classrooms in schools with large numbers of low-income and/or at-risk, ELL students. Some secondary classrooms are ELL only. We have several elementary schools that have 20% Russian speaking students; you may work with several of these students, half days, as a tutor, and then work in a classroom for the other half day. These have always been excellent placements for Whitworth students that need to stay in the Spokane area during Jan term.

• Cost: $50 lab fee
• Contact: Suzie Henning, Dixon 307, 777-3450

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