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Exchange Programs

The USIS EFL Fellow Program has begun (as of April, 1997) a series of hands-on online courses, seminars and workshops for teachers and administrators of non-commercial EFL programs. The courses in Kyiv are run in conjunction with the International Science Foundation and take place at the Open Society Institute's Regional Internet Program Site. 

Reservations for all courses are mandatory. Contact Lilia Shilo at lilia@ah.kiev.ua or call the numbers below to check on dates and to reserve a place in one of the courses or to find about about upcoming on-site workshops and seminars throughout Ukraine. 

Each of the online courses provides training with:

• e-mail programs
• professional discussion lists
• listserv commands 
• Internet tools such as Gopher and Telnet 
• Browsers and search engines
• Pedagogic applications of new technologies and how to integrate online resources into existing curricula
• Distance Education
• How to have fun with new technologies, make contacts worldwide, and discover the virtually-unlimited resources available to learners and teachers online.

For more information about the EFL Fellow program in Ukraine, you can contact Liaison Rick Rosenberg by:
• visiting Rick's home page ;
• calling +380-44 213 25 32 and asking for Rick or Lilia; 
• faxing +380-44 213 33 86; 
• writing to rickpaul@ah.kiev.ua ;
• visiting (or writing to) America House, vul. Melnykova 63, Kyiv 254650 Ukraine. 

EFL Fellow Liaisons in Ukraine over the years have been involved in: 
• the establishment of online courses, seminars and workshops (e-mail and the Internet for teachers and administrators of EFL programs;
• the establishment of TESOL Ukraine in Vinnytsia;
• the publication of the textbooks series Let's Start;
• the offering of EFL, ESP and linguistic courses, seminars and workshops;
• the planning, organization and realization of local, national and international conferences and courses such as the two-week Summer Institutes on Current Methods and Practices in TESOL (in its fifth year!);
• the establishment and teaching of a variety of courses at the university undergraduate and graduate levels;
• the establishment and strengthening of professional networks and affiliations. 

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For information on the summer teacher-training courses or on the textbook series Let's Start! or just to say hello, 
click on past EFL Fellow Program Liaison Zirka Voronka . 

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