Through the support of the Bureau of Teacher Certification and Preparation, Pennsylvania has joined with other states and several foreign countries to give selected educators the opportunity to experience the Australian educational system for a period of one year. The year will begin in January 2002 and end in December 2002. Program Eligibility Teaching fellows will be Pennsylvania certified teachers with at least three years of successful teaching experience. Most of the people selected will be classroom teachers, but some may be specialists, school principals or other school administrators. In Pennsylvania the program is open to public school educators only.
Fellowships are literally exchange programs.
Anyone selected as a candidate and matched with a Victorian teacher will exchange jobs and homes. The ITF program is arranged on a government to government basis and is conducted at state level. Interested individuals may use the application forms in this web page. All applications must be received by the Division of Teacher Education no later than January 8, 2001. Applications will be read and evaluated by a committee using an established criterion.