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| available online at www.lcc.lt/newsletters/institute/ | February 2008 |
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Intensive English Program Summer Language Institute- Lithuania Summer Language Institute – Ukraine Note from the Director |
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 Are you looking for an adventure? Are you interested in using your talents to benefit others? Are you passionate about teaching? Read on to find out how you can be a part of an amazing school; LCC International University has a wide range of teaching opportunities. Here is your chance to positively impact the lives of many young people from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Currently we are accepting applications from teachers for several new programs. We already host several quality English language programs and the new programs will build on our existing strengths. If you are interested, please contact our Expatriate Recruiter, Cathy Bauer, by emailing teaching.english@lcc.lt. She will be happy to assist you. |
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 LCC International University will begin our first Intensive English Program (IEP) in September 2008. The IEP will provide full time academic English language instruction for college bound, advanced English learners. The IEP program will support LCC’s liberal arts model of education, but with a specific focus on developing the students’ English language skills that they need to succeed academically at LCC International University. Each student will have a full daily schedule of English courses that will prepare them for further studies. Teacher collaboration: We are looking for teachers who are willing to launch this program, to help to develop the curriculum and to work together to craft a new academic program. We are designing the program based on other successful IEP programs as well as our knowledge of the needs of the students. We hope to employ a group of creative teachers who will work as a team to implement a curriculum that will consider both the needs of the students and their goals for successfully pursuing their academic careers. Highly motivated students: We are excited to begin this new program, targeted specifically at post secondary students who understand the mission of LCC and who need additional English instruction before they enter LCC. Our goal is that they will return to their societies as well informed leaders, as responsible community members and as people of Christian character. We hope to attract more students from the Baltic and FSU regions for the IEP program. International flavor: We are actively and successfully recruiting students from Lithuania and also from the former Soviet Republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Often students in these regions simply don’t have the same educational opportunities as students in western societies. Weaker economies, smaller schools, and fewer opportunities to interact with foreigners hinder the students from advancing beyond an intermediate English level, which, in turn, inhibits their options for higher education. Currently at LCC there are many international students from the region earning their undergraduate degrees in business, English or theology. The IEP program will enroll an additional 50 students who desire to study English in this supportive learning environment. The students will be full time students, concentrating on learning English for academic purposes. They will have many opportunities to fully participate in the life of the school, intercultural programs, dormitory life, and spiritual life activities. Details for teachers Housing stipend: IEP teachers will receive a housing stipend for teaching in the IEP program. This stipend will cover most housing costs while in Lithuania. Materials and supplies Besides a desire to teach, teachers need the little extras that make teaching easier. We have a well stocked resource room with numerous textbooks, supplemental materials and realia. LCC supplies each classroom with overhead projectors and tape or CD players. We also have several iPods with speakers for using podcasts during lessons. The IT department assists with technology in the classrooms by providing several LCD projectors and laptops for shared use. Most classrooms have active internet portals. Along with copy machines and plenty of office supplies (pens, paper, markers) you will be well equipped to be successful in the classroom. Save the dates. The IEP will consist of four 7-week terms through the school year from September to April. Consider coming for the full school year. If that is not possible for you, consider one or two 7-week terms. Term 1- Sept – Oct Term 2- Nov-Dec Term 3- Jan –Feb Term 4- March- April We request that all teachers arrive several days early for important orientation sessions and stay several days after each term for debriefing. Exact days for your arrivals and departure will be set later in the spring. Apply Now! Would you like more information about LCC and faculty/staff opportunities? Contact us at teaching.english@lcc.lt | |
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 Once again, LCC will host the most popular summer courses for English language learning in the country. The Summer Language Institute (SLI) will be held from July 7-25, 2008 in Klaipeda, on LCC’s campus. For the past 17 years, students have been coming to SLI not only to learn English but to participate in an engaging, international community, to make friends and to improve their overall communication skills. In 2007, students from Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Poland attended. Delightful students We already have many applicants for SLI 2008 and each year we have a long waiting list. Most are secondary school students who study English in school and are highly motivated to practice their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills with native speaker teachers. If you ask them about their futures, they will tell you that they dream of being lawyers, doctors, engineers, teachers, pilots, computer programmers or translators. In the classroom, students are eager, attentive and ready to learn. We offer classes for students of any English ability, from beginner to advanced levels with the goal of moving each student along in his/her personal language learning goals. Supportive teaching environment We have had many energetic teachers who have made our program successful over the past 17 years. We are looking for more teachers to join us as we will increase the number of students from 320 in 2007 to 350 students in 2008. We establish a supportive teaching atmosphere during orientation when we get acquainted, talk about teaching and prepare our lessons. Each teacher is an important part of a teaching team for a particular level. During the program, teachers share offices and are strongly encouraged to share ideas and materials. Team members support each other in daily conversation in the staff room, in the offices and after school. SLI teachers definitely have a sense of collegiality. Apply Now! If you have experience teaching ESL in the United States or Canada, you will be well equipped to handle the language needs of our students. If you have taught EFL overseas, you will understand the importance of cultural sensitivity in the classrooms. If you are a secondary school teacher of almost any subject, you will thrive on the energy of the young people. Would you like more information about LCC and faculty/staff opportunities? Contact us at teaching.english@lcc.lt |
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 LCC is expanding our largest and most successful summer program. This summer we will launch our first Summer Language Institute in Rivne, Ukraine. Why expand? We are expanding our programs in order to reach a wider range of students and to make LCC’s program accessible to more students. Why Ukraine? We have a great many contacts with secondary schools and churches in Ukraine. We have built these connections over the past 6 years. Ukraine is open to Christian education and we have been generously welcomed. Why Rivne? We choose Rivne, a city in western Ukraine because of our long term relationship with the schools there. Currently there are many university students at LCC from Rivne. The idea of LCC is not new for the youth in Rivne; they have been introduced to LCC by our admissions teams. Who is our partner? Our partner in Rivne is Hope to People, an evangelical mission agency that has their headquarters in Rivne. Hope to People has hosted LCC admissions team for several years and we have a positive relationship with their mission. We will offer an English class for the Hope to People staff as part of our contract with them. We will be using Hope to People’s classrooms and dormitory space for our program. The Program The SLI Ukraine program will be a smaller version of the SLI Lithuania program in terms of the curriculum and general timetable. However, this program is specifically for advanced English learners, those students with TOEFL scores over 400. We will enroll 50 students. We will need teachers for teaching reading, essay writing, and speech. The reading level of the students will be similar to 9th-12th grade in North America. They will likely be good speakers but they will need review of grammar structures, especially verb tenses, to become more articulate English speakers. Initial course descriptions are available now for teachers who are interested in the details; of course all teachers will discuss and plan courses in cooperation with the director. Flexible teachers Because this is a new program, we are looking for flexible, cooperative and thoughtful teachers who can take initiative to work with a new program with fewer structures in place. We will learn as we go, to make this program successful in this location. Of course we will use our existing program as a guide but in a new location we expect to have some surprises. Let the adventures begin! Save the dates July 3 Faculty arrives in Kiev; travel to Rivne July 4-6 Teacher Orientation July 7 Student registration/ classes begin July 25 Classes end/ Closing Assembly July 27 Faculty departs Rivne/ departs Kiev Would you like more information about LCC and faculty/staff opportunities? Contact us at teaching.english@lcc.lt |
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 As you can see, we are in planning mode here in the English Language Institute. Much of my thoughts turn to curriculum mapping, new program administration ideas and dreams about how these programs will materialize. Since we depend almost entirely on the volunteer spirit of people, I look forward to meeting the applicants for our newest programs. We have been blessed to always have the right teachers come to LCC at just the right time. I marvel again and again at how God sends us qualified and inspirational teachers who are passionate about teaching and building up young people. And once again we are actively looking for more people who are up for the challenge for the tasks that need to be done. May God answer our prayers for teachers to come and serve with us. |
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