Date Form (Re)Sent m/d/y, Firstname Lastname, Host Country, ETA, Phone Numbers
T E A C H I N G F U L B R I G H T R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M
A Tutorial Survey – Discovery in Replies
This INTERACTIVE Wordoc form and its questions was last updated 3:35 pm8.30.16
This form is in two parts:
Part One: Exploring Feasibility
Part Two: Establishing Viability
PART ONE Exploring Feasibility CONTENTS
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Comprehension
Section 3: Host Country
Section 4: Background
Section 5: Contact Info
Section 6: Spectrum
PART TWO Establishing Viability CONTENTS
Section 1: Teaching
Section 2: Language
Section 3: Extramural
Section 4: Consultants
Section 5: Excellence
Section 6: Mission
Don’t be daunted by the length or detail of this Registration – it’s meant to be done in stages and, when complete, you will have much of the Fulbright application itself prepared.
Go in as deep as you want for now up to or beyond the minimum requirement.
Completion of only Part 1 Sections 1, 2 & 5 and Part 2 Sections 1& 4 and most of Section 2 is required for initial assessment. Completion of the remaining Part One sections is preferred but optional to launch the process. Leave the rest of Part 2 until we are sure Part 1 & initial Part 2 sections indicate continuing.
Do not view this Registration as a whole because it looks a lot more than it is.
Much is just information and, if you keep your answers brief, you will zoom through it.
Simply answer one question at a time and enjoy the self-discovery!
WHEN you send in this form, SAY in your email message WHICH Parts, Sections and Questions you have FILLED in (try to answer all straightforward questions for which you already have answers).
Always update answers with latest information (such as newer Transcript and Resume) every time before resending.
PART ONE: EXPLORING FEASIBILITY
PART ONE CONTENTS
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Comprehension
Section 3: Host Country
Section 4: Background
Section 5: Contact Info
Section 6: Spectrum
Part One Section One: INTRODUCTION
Although you answered some of these questions on the Preparations Level,
they must be asked again because your situation may have changed.
1. DATE FORM STARTED. Always update answers with latest information (such as newer Transcript and Resume re. Part 1 Section 1 Questions 12 & 13) every time before resending:
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2. SMITH STUDENT OFFICIAL LEGAL NAME. 1st & last only.
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Online Application Form question 1):
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3. OTHER NAME YOU MOSTLY USE?
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4. YOUR EXPECTED SMITH GRADUATION MONTH & YEAR.
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application Form question 22 and 43):
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5. YOUR YEAR & SEMESTER NOW OR OCCUPATION, WHERE
(e.g. 2nd semester spring junior, or rising senior if in summer, on campus, or in Togo, etc.)
Update this information before resending:
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6. YOUR AGE TODAY:
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7. LIST ALL CITIZENSHIP/S.
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application questions 28 and 29)
Must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible. Documented proof will be required.
If you also have citizenship of the country to which you want to apply, check your target host country summary
to see if they allow you to do a Fulbright there holding their citizenship:
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8. BIRTH PLACE?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 9):
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9. WHEN DO YOU WISH TO DO YOUR FULBRIGHT?
(e.g. Academic year following graduation and actual year dates):
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10. CURRENT OVERALL CUMULATIVE SMITH-ONLY GPA.
(End-Junior year GPA will be used for Fulbright Application Form question 23)
Same as on your Smith transcript pasted in below:
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11. HAVE YOU PASTED YOUR RESUME – consult Fulbright Resume Guide
– with detail of sought-after attributes, AT THE VERY END OF THIS FORM?
(There are questions further down in this form where you explain/elaborate on resume items.)
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12. HAVE YOU PASTED YOUR BANNER TRANSCRIPT – follow instructions EXACTLY as in Fulbright Transcript Guide
including the “testing” – JUST ABOVE YOUR RESUME AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS FORM?
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Part One Section 2: COMPREHENSION
Although you answered some of these questions on the Preparations Level,
they must be asked again because your situation may have changed.
1. STUDENT ID. Acts as a signature certifying all Registration information above and below as true:
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2. DO YOU QUALIFY FOR THE FULBRIGHT AS PER OUR ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
(Briefly list your qualifiers in point-form and note any shortfalls):
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& THOSE ON THE FULBRIGHT WEBSITE
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3. HAVE YOU STUDIED:
1) ETA APPLICATION COMPONENTS?
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2) ETA APPLICATION TIPS?
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4. DID YOU READ? THESE SMITH FULBRIGHT PAGES:
At ● answer Y (with comments or questions as desired) or N (and why):
1) Introduction to Program
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2) Smith College Deadlines
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3) Easiest ETA Countries
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4) Earning TESL Certification
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5) Smith Fulbrighter Alumnae / FAB: Fellows Advice Bureau
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5. HAVE YOU READ OUR FULBRIGHT REGISTRATION INTRODUCTION
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6. HAVE YOU READ OUR FULBRIGHT REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS
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7. HAVE YOU PROVIDED, AS INSTRUCTED, ANSWERS FOR THIS REGISTRATION FORM
one space after the bullets in 12 point Times New Roman light face (Regular) upper & lower case without semi-colons or editing the questions?
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8. HAVE YOU ENTERED YOUR INFORMATION IN THE HEADER?
Please do so also in all the interactive forms to come that will guide you through the process step by step.
Every time you resend the form, update the header date.
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9. THE FORMATTING OF THIS WORD-DOC FORM MUST STAY THE WAY IT WAS.
Have you preserved it as you found it online in Print Layout (via View) or Page View (Mac) and including 0.7 inch margins all around, 12pt TNR 108% and page numbers (which will change as you answer questions) and ONE open line space between questions, sections and parts?
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Part One Section 3: HOST COUNTRY
1.HAVE YOU STUDIED Easiest ETA Countries
AND NARROWED YOUR BEST OPTIONS?
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2. (a) IN WHICH HOST COUNTRY DO YOU WISH TO DO YOUR FULBRIGHT, AND 2. (b) WHY ARE YOU CHOOSING THIS COUNTRY? (Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 2.
See
List more than one if undecided from
Because this is a critical choice, every word on the Fulbright website about a country must be taken seriously at face value, with intentions analyzed and nuances deciphered.
They really mean what they say!
For instance, if they say students possessing such-and-such attributes or experience are preferred, then you are unlikely to be selected if you don’t have these qualities, given the high level of competitiveness.
If you are borderline regarding these preferred standards or skills, weigh country choices further via
Besides the most obviously first requirement of language, and the preferred applicant profile as mentioned above, consider the level at which ETAs teach.
Teaching at university level will require more skill, experience and qualifications than being an ETA at a high school especially if classes consist only of conversational English although even that has its own set of specific skills such as public speaking, live presentations, leading group discussions, moderating forums &/or classroom management.
Elementary schoolchildren require teachers or TAs with yet another skill-set that understands early childhood development, what a child is capable of grasping at what age, and the way to communicate knowledge to children of different ages.
If the country description is ambiguous or unclear to you, email the FPA.
If further clarification is required, ask the Country Manager at I.I.E. via
The Fulbright Commission or other authority (e.g. U.S. Consulate) in the host country can also be contacted.
Many have a website listed at the end of the Country Description, in which you can usually find a contact email address that is sometimes itself listed at the end of the Country Description.
It does not hurt to ask a question, and can also help for reasons beyond the question itself, although check with your FPA first before emailing your prospective country because there are sometimes better ways to phrase queries:
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3. (a) AT WHAT LEVEL WILL YOU BE TEACHING IN YOUR HOST COUNTRY ?
Select from the four Tracks at top of 6. Teaching at
IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR COUNTRY SUMMARY
3. (b) IF INDICATED IN THE COUNTRY SUMMARY, IN WHAT CITY OR LOCATION ?
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4. (a)HOW MUCH TIME TOTAL IN YEARS & MONTHS (also when doing what) HAVE YOU SPENT IN YOUR HOST COUNTRY?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 19):
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4.(b) HOW HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE ON-THE-GROUND EVERYDAY REALITIES OF LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IN, AND NAVIGATING YOUR WAY AROUND, THE HOST COUNTRY OF YOUR CHOICE?
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5. WHAT LEVEL OF HOST-COUNTRY LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY according to the Country
Description found via
DOES THIS COUNTRY PREFER FOR THEIR ENGLISH TEACHING ASSISTANTS (ETAs)?
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Part One Section 4: BACKGROUND
1. WHAT LEVEL OF THE HOST-COUNTRY LANGUAGE/Sin your own self-assessment DO YOU COMMAND?
(Answer may be used for Fulbright Application Form 7):
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2. HOW MANY YEARS AT COLLEGE WILL YOU HAVE STUDIED THIS/THESE LANGUAGE/S BY THE TIME YOU GRADUATE?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application Form 7)
A minimum of two years is usually required, or equivalent level of competency, but of course not all languages are taught in college:
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3. WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE & LOVE OF YOUR HOST COUNTRY & REGION?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application Form 7 and this question is in our Campus Evaluation that forms part of Smith’s sponsorship of your application)
Knowledge covers geographic situation, culture & society, people, history, and relationship with America.
Love includes your reasons for choosing this country, what attracts you to it, why it fascinates you:
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4. MAJOR/S & MINOR, SPECIAL STUDIES, HONORS THESIS, ETC. OR GRADUATE DEGREE. (Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 22a and 22b)
Give name, topic or subject of special studies or honors thesis, and any latest grade if you have one.
Say what each major/minor subject is, with the letter grades received for each (just letter grades as shown on your transcript pasted below, not course titles) in the last semester you took the subject/s.
If in doubt how much info to give, then just give more rather than less, including intended work such as honors thesis:
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5. ACADEMICS RELATED TO TEACHING.
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application questions 24 & 25 plus this question is in our Campus Evaluation that forms part of Smith’s sponsorship of your application)
Student's studies, courses & grades, honors, thesis, special studies, Collaborations, research, publications, Kahn, fellowships, papers, Blumberg, presentations, and other teaching-related knowledge or academic experience (briefly in point-form):
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6. WHY DO YOU WANT TO TEACH?
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7. PROFILE & DUTIES OF THE ETA IN YOUR HOST COUNTRY.
Open your country webpage via
Copy & paste in here below, starting at the next bullet, all the phrases that describe their desired ETA profile and the various ETA duties.
This will include primarily the Nature of Assignment (or Placement Type), the Candidate Profile and Placement Type.
Add any additional information from
Divide this information onto one line for each required duty, skill or other job/teacher description, with a colon at the end.
Add a bullet on the next line before each remaining requirement.
Be sure to list separately and in detail each little thing they say they want in or from an ETA.
Some countries give scant job descriptions whereas others are copious, multi-faceted and precise:
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Part One Section 5: CONTACT INFO
1. SMITH EMAIL ADDRESS.
Only Smith email addresses are used for students unless by prior arrangement with your FPA.
It is the responsibility of program participants to check their Smith email frequently especially as campus and foundation deadlines approach.
At times, the deadline-driven application process has to be accelerated at short notice.
Prompt responsiveness is key to remaining a viable candidate throughout the precision fellowships application process:
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If you graduate before your application is submitted in the fall, a non-Smith email address is required:
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2. CELL PHONE NUMBER:
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3. DORM ROOM PHONE EXT. OR RESIDENTIAL LANDLINE NO.:
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4. CITY YOU LIVE IN NOW, DOING WHAT, & FOR HOW MUCH LONGER?
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5. NEXT PLACE/S YOU’LL BE FROM WHEN TO WHEN, DOING WHAT? (Don’t just say, e.g. “Interning, New York.” Give full detail. Name, organization, department & duties, etc.):
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6. UPCOMING WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER ACTIVITIES(give detail),DATES, ADDRESS, PHONE &/or FAX.
Supply information for all seasonal breaks between now and next fall:
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7. ANY OTHER CONTACT INFORMATION SO THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS BE CONTACTED BETWEEN NOW & END-OCTOBER OF YEAR OF APPLICATION:
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8. PERMANENT OR FAMILY OR PARENTS’ HOME ADDRESS/ES, PHONE/S, FAX &/or EMAIL/S SO THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS BE CONTACTED EVEN LATER
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application pg. 6):
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9. CAMPUS BOX:
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10. RELEVANT SMITH HOUSE:
This must be the House you last lived in while attending Smith.
If you enter the name of a House and then switch Houses, notify the FPA and .
If you have never lived on campus and do not have an association with any House, explain:
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Part One Section 6: SPECTRUM
Although you answered some of these questions on the Preparations Level,
they must be asked again because your situation may have changed.
1. OTHER FIELDS &/or COUNTRIES/REGIONS OF CONCENTRATION or INTEREST?
This could include other areas or fields you might be interested in applying for, or other regions or subjects you are familiar with which might be relevant to what you are proposing in this Registration.
Give some detail of extent of specialization, experiential knowledge &/or focused study:
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2. HOW MUCH TIME TOTAL IN YEARS & MONTHS HAVE YOU SPENT ABROAD THE PAST SIX YEARS?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 20)
Must be less than five years.
Attending all of high school in your target country is also usually a disqualifier:
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3. WHAT IS THE EXTENT OF YOUR OVERSEAS EXPERIENCE?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application questions19 and 20)
How much time (where when doing what) have you spent in other countries? Include primary purpose of visit (study, vacation, etc.), country, dates (month/year) and duration of stay:
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4. EXPERIENCE ABROAD COMMENTS
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 21)
What significant impressions, insights, or lessons learned did you gain during your time overseas? If you haven’t had the opportunity to travel overseas, mention why and discuss the impact you expect time overseas to have on your life at this point:
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5. OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
(Answer may be used for Fulbright Application Form 7 and question 18)
Demonstrates facility in learning languages and could be used as an argument for your ability to learn your host-country language fast or to improve your skill level in it rapidly:
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6. TO WHAT ETHNIC GROUP DO YOU BELONG? Give the common name for this group. If your parents are from different ethnic groups, please state both, and how you describe or see yourself ethnically. You do not have to answer this question but answering it will help us help you:
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7. ARE YOU A FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENT (neither parent has a bachelor degree) OR A FIRST-GENERATION AMERICAN (one or both parents born abroad)? If so, state which and, if the latter, where your parents were born:
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8. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY BACKGROUND, INCLUDING WHERE YOU WERE RAISED AND YOUR PARENTS’ OCCUPATIONS. Brief answers help us help you:
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9. ARE YOU UNDER CURRENT INDICTMENT FOR OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY OR MISDEMEANOR (excluding minor traffic violations)?
(Answer will be used for Fulbright Application question 46):
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10. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AN HONOR OR JUDICIAL BOARD CASE? If so, give some detail. Do not allow this to deter you from Registering as it is likely to be inapplicable & will be kept confidential. If you prefer not to answer this here, you may call or email the FPA to discuss it:
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11. IS THERE ANY OTHER INFORMATION YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE NOW THAT MAY COME TO LIGHT LATER THAT COULD IMPACT YOUR CANDIDACY? If so, give some detail. Some examples would be leaving a study abroad program early, struggles to fit in and make new friends, shyness to speak up in class, afraid to talk to professors, embarrassed to ask questions. If you are taking or have taken a leave of absence from Smith, this should be explained here. If you have transferred schools more than once, this would be a good place to discuss that. If you have special learning needs or any disabilities, or food, dietary or other restrictions, fears or safety concerns (which might be those of your parents) and so on, it is helpful for us to know this so that we can make accommodations and suggest suitable countries. If you are on any medication, again let's find a good fit for you. Perhaps you are having mental health, stress or emotional struggles, tension, depression, anxiety, overload, drug or alcohol problems. Or issues surrounding family, death, or identity questions of orientation, diversity, class, searching for roots, ancestral connection, religious concerns. Desire to stay with extended family or return to a host family, boyfriend or other love interest in the target country, are all factors worth raising to see how we may mesh them with Fulbright objectives. Nothing is necessarily disadvantageous except a lack of candor. But you are not compelled to divulge anything. This section is purely optional but do not answer N/A. If you prefer not to answer here, you may email the FPA to discuss this to see if it may be relevant. The FPA may consult a Class Dean confidentially with your information. Additionally, the information shared here will also be passed onto your or potential Faculty Fulbright Mentor/s, so do not record information here you wish to keep private. Better share this verbally with the FPA or with your Class Dean to relay to the FPA. If you do not want to divulge any information, answer "Confidential" below. Be aware that Fulbright Fellows are official representatives of the United States of America and that the State Department does a thorough check before awarding grants, as well as requiring medical reports. Bottom-line, answering this question helps you because it helps us help you figure the best route to take and not waste your time, and ours, pursuing an ill-fitting goal. If none of the above applies to you, then say so in a few words: