The visiting teachers are responsible for their housing arrangements, including the cost of the housing. They are also responsible for the expenses of their round trip from Spain to Indiana and their transportation within the United States. The Indiana teacher will teach English language in Spain and the teacher from Spain will teach Spanish language in Indiana. The Ministry is responsible for the screening of the Spanish teachers, and the State of Indiana and the Spanish Resource Center are responsible for the selection of the U.S. teachers. All interested parties should fill out an application in which they specify where in Spain they want to teach and the school level they are qualified to teach.
Lodging is the responsibility of the teachers.
Once the Indiana teachers have made contact with their Spanish exchange partner, they will decide if they will exchange homes or if they prefer to rent an apartment. The cost of transportation to and from Spain and within Spain is the responsibility of the American exchange teacher. This is also true for the Spanish teacher, the cost of transportation to and from the United States and within the United States is the responsibility of the Spanish exchange teacher. This program is designed to facilitate Spanish university students who are in a teacher preparation program to serve as teacher assistants in a Spanish program in an elementary, middle, or high school in Indiana. The teacher assistants from Spain will have at least the equivalent of a master's degree in education, but will not have had any teaching experience.