Fulbright Reality Czech

Tomáš Průcha v uplynulém školním roce dočasně vyměnil pedagogickou fakulty Západočeské univerzity v Plzni za pedagogickou fakultu na americké Michigan State University. Na „Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education“ Tomáš jako stipendista Fulbright-Masarykova programu pro doktorandy porovnával odbornou přípravu budoucích učitelů informatiky v USA v se svou zkušeností v České republice. Během tříměsíčního pobytu v Michiganu Tomáš stihl i pracovní a poznávací výlet do Portorika.                                                   O programu Outreach Lecturing Fund (OLF) jsem poprvé slyšel na úvodním orientačním setkání pro stipendisty Fulbrightova programu v květnu 2019. Pomalu jsem se už připravoval na svůj pobyt na Michigan State University, kam jsem měl v září odletět jako stipendista Fulbright-Masarykovo programu a strávit tam tř...

Maryellen Stohlman Vanderveen was one of our 31 English Teaching Assistants during the past school year. After seven months of teaching at Gymnazium Moravsky Krumlov, located in the middle of South Moravian vineyards, the alumna of Smith College with a double major in Philosophy and Psychology, decided to keep teaching, but this time on a different continent. Read about Maryellen's reflections on moving across the world amid COVID-19. If you asked me what I would be doing this time last year, I definitely would not have answered that I would be writing a blog post from quarantine in Hong Kong. However, I do not think anyone really anticipated what the year 2020 would bring. One year ago, I had just arrived in the Czech Republic. I was attending Masaryk University’s Summer School of Slavonic Studies, trying to learn as much Czech as possible before beginning my Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in a small Czech town. (Okay, so maybe there was a little partying happening...