Toronto for Teachers Program

EIU Study Abroad
register for Toronto for Teachers, 2010
application deadline, February 2, 2010
In a great city, in a great country not so far away,
you can add some cross-cultural sparkle
to your summer and to your career!
The Department of EC/ELE/MLE and the Department of Secondary Education and Foundations, Eastern Illinois University, are proud to offer a study abroad experience to enable undergraduate and graduate teacher education candidates to interact, communicate, and reflect with teachers and children in multicultural, multilingual, and international school settings.  The host country, Canada, and the city of Toronto, Ontario, are known for excellent innovative, and international education programs.  Toronto offers exceptional cultural diversity and a safe, clean, and beautiful cosmopolitan environment.  

York University has an enrollment of 40,000 students with 2000 in the B.Ed. program. York U. Faculty of Education maintains partnerships with exemplary schools throughout the city.  EIU travelers will participate with educators and children and youth in these model schools! Directors of international programs for the Faculty of Education at York coordinate the EIU Toronto for Teachers program.  Workshops and tours of schools and neighborhoods for mind-expanding introductions to the global cultures of the city are provided. Curriculum opportunities include ESL, special education integration, balanced literacy, anti-bias education, French immersion, the international  baccalaureate, middle level Horizon alternative, secondary technical, secondary collegiate institutes, multi-age classrooms, community involvement, and much more!

In this environment of international education, EIU credits can be earned from the following selection of courses:

ELE3350, Language Arts in the Elementary School, 2 credits
STG4000, Multicultural/Disabilities Practicum, 1 credit
EIU4107, Senior Seminar: The Idea of the University, 3 credits
ELE4741, SED4741, ELE5990, Independent Studies, 1-3 credits,

Dan Carter and Judy Barford, Department of EC/ELE/MLE, and Dawn Paulson, Department of Secondary Education and Foundations will be your instructors and co-directors,Toronto for Teachers, 2010.

EIU travelers must have attained Admission to Teacher Education, junior status for education majors, and must have passed the first criminal background check.  They may sign up for a minimum of 1 credit up to a maximum of 4 credits. 

Weekday excursion, ML Blue Jays Baseball at the Rogers Center
Weekend excursion: Niagara Falls day trip
including Niagara-on-the-Lake and an Ontario vineyard and winery. 

Housing will be private rooms at the 45 Willcocks Residence on the University of Toronto downtown campus Living at UT is an ideal location which puts the EIU group close to placement schools and to many cultural attractions.
 
Program fee for 2010: $1700.  Included are round trip airfare, all local transportation, excursions, some meals, housing, and all York program events and tours.

May 10 - 20, 2010
Contacts: jbarford@eiu.edu  djcarter@eiu.edu  dmpaulson@eiu.edu

Please fill out an "interested Toronto traveler" form in the EC/ELE/MLE office.

Watch for a Toronto 2010 intro meeting, Fall '09