Program Goals & Objectives

The Franco-American Teachers-in-Training Institute has established the following goals:

• Enable acquisition of pedagogical, cultural, and linguistic knowledge, cross-cultural experience, problem-solving skills, and flexibility.
• Advocate the necessity of global agents who will work to find better solutions to universal educational challenges
• Foster the development of productive, engaged, and critical citizens for tomorrow.
• Work to increase mutual understanding between France and the United States.
• Advance professional growth and development in teaching, research and service in international and cross-cultural education.

The following objectives assist the Institute in meeting the established goals:

• Explore best practices in teaching diverse socio-economic populations.
• Facilitate discussion and comparison of pedagogical issues of significance regarding educational systems.
• Examine a variety of instructional strategies, nature and use of assessment, complexities of multiculturalism, and effective integration of technology.
• Investigate enrichment possibilities presented through community involvement in the schools.
• Provide opportunities to interact with educational professionals from another culture in the:
  
  • establishment of an ongoing dialogue
  • expansion of professional network to an international level
  • development of collaborative initiatives