In most cases, both teachers secure a leave of absence with pay from their home institutions and then trade classrooms for the school year.
Most exchanges occur for an academic year.
Argentina, Mexico and Peru offer fall-semester exchanges. Brazil and Morocco offer six-week exchanges. In addition to the teacher exchanges, there are administrative exchange opportunities in Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. The program also offers an eight week seminar in Italy for teachers of Latin, Greek or the Classics. The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program strives to reflect the ethnic diversity of the U.S. teaching population.