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Mr. Bevan goes to Japan:
Career & Tech School English teacher selected for Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program

Kenneth G. Bevan of Troy, an English teacher at the Capital Region Career & Technical School in Colonie, has been selected by the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program to travel to Japan in October and study that nation's educational system and culture.

Bevan teaches English in Career & Tech's Alternative High School program and as part of the school's Integrated Academics program, which infuses English, math and science into career and technical subjects. He has been a member of the Career & Tech faculty for five years. The school is operated by the Capital Region Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) and enrolls more than 1,200 high school and adult students.

"We leave on October 1 for Tokyo," Bevan related, "and my host city will be Arao, Kumamoto, in southern Japan. My main objective as a participant in the Japan Fulbright Teacher Program is to observe, understand and learn from the experience to enrich my classroom and student activities here in the U.S. I also hope to apply my Japanese experiences to activities in our school that focus on curriculum, technology and professional development."

Bevan was selected from a national pool of nearly 2,300 applicants and will be among 200 educators traveling to Japan in October. They will begin their visit in Tokyo with a practical orientation on Japanese life and culture with Japanese government officials and educators. They then will travel in groups of 20 to selected host cities where they will have direct contact with Japanese teachers and students during visits to primary and secondary schools as well as a teachers college. They also will visit cultural sites and local industries in addition to a brief homestay with a Japanese family.

The Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund, based in Tokyo, oversees all aspects of the Teacher Program. The program is sponsored by the government of Japan and was launched in 1997 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. government Fulbright Program, which has enabled more than 6,000 Japanese citizens to study in the U.S. on Fulbright fellowships for graduate education and research. The Institute for International Education acts as the agency for the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund to coordinate the recruitment and pre-departure activities of the Teacher Program in the U.S.

During 2006, a total of 600 U.S. educators will visit Japan in groups of 200 in June, October and November. To date, more than 5,200 primary and secondary educators have visited Japan through the Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program. Upon their return, they share what they have learned about Japan with their students and communities through a variety of outreach projects. Information on the program is available at www.fulbrightmemorialfund.jp.

[8/06]

What happens day to day in Japan?
Read Mr. Bevan's own personal blog at www.kennethgbevan.blogspot.com

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