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" Just The Way I am "

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Teacher College Scholarships

         Depending on where a student wants to teach after graduation and what that student wants to specialize in, the job prospects foreducationstudents over the next decade are improving considerably. As of 2004, there were 3.8 million teachers employed in elementary and secondary education. The majority of jobs (approximately 1.5 million) went to elementary school teachers, but secondary educators held 1.1 million of the total teaching jobs.

        Students who are pursuing careers in either elementary education or secondary education often have a lot of financial strain after graduation when they begin their student teaching programs. Student teachers can often get funding that will help them to pay for housing and living expenses while they are doing their student teaching.

        Student teachers are just one of the many groups of teaching students who qualify for teacher scholarship monies. There are also teaching scholarships available for teaching students who have specific specializations:administration, K-12, physical education, special education, and even master's students can also qualify to get certain teaching scholarships.

        There are two types of teacher scholarships: national scholarships and local scholarships. Some colleges and universities also offer special teacher scholarships, so students should also check with their current or prospective college or university to see what types of monies are offered. National teacher scholarships are sometimes more difficult to attain because they have more competition than local and state scholarships; however, the monetary amount of each national scholarship is generally much larger. Some national scholarships are geared toward students who want to teach particular subjects, while other scholarships are available to any student in any teaching specialty.

List of Teacher Scholarships

• AKA Educational Advancement Foundation Merit Scholarship — $1000 awarded each year to 1 undergraduate student majoring in education.


• American Montessori Society Teacher Education Scholarship Fund — Varied amount awarded each year to 5-20 undergraduate students majoring in Education.


• Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation — $250 awarded each year to 2 freshmen students majoring in education.


• Harry A. Applegate Scholarship — Up to $1000 awarded each year to 20-25 undergraduate and graduate students who are members of DECA majoring in Education and other areas.


• Isabel M. Herson Scholarship in Education — $500 to $1000 awarded each year to varied number of undergraduate and graduate students majoring in education.


• NAACP Lillian and Samuel Sutton Education Scholarship — $1000 to $2000 awarded each year to minority undergraduate and graduate students who are members of NAACP and majoring in Education.


• Robert G. Porter Scholars Program - AFT Members — $1000 awarded each year to 4-10 undergraduate or graduate students who are AFT members for 1 year.


• Rudolph Dillman Memorial Scholarship — Up to $2500 awarded each year to 4 undergraduate and graduate students majoring in education of blind persons.


• Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies Undergraduate Scholarships — $1500 to $2000 awarded each year to 15 SAI members who are undergraduate students majoring in education.


• Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund — $4000 awarded each year to minority undergraduate student majoring in education.

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Education News!!!

27 Thais receive Australian top academic awards

The Nation January 23, 2012 1:00 am

Australian Ambassador to Thailand, James Wise, yesterday presented Australia Awards scholarships to 27 scholars and professionals from Thailand.

Each year, the Australian Government offers Australia Awards scholarships to highachieving students, researchers and professionals from around the world to study in Australia's education institutions or undertake professional development programmes. The scholarships are internationallycompetitive and meritbased.

This year, 27 Thais were chosen for a prestigious Australia Award. Twenty Thais received Endeavour Awards for high achievement in their specific field. Two were granted the Prime Minister's AustraliaAsia Award, an elite scholarship presented to only twenty Endeavour postgraduate doctorate awardees worldwide.

An additional seven awardees received Australian Leadership Awards (ALAs), which are part of Australia's development programme administered by AusAID. ALAs are aimed at addressing priority development areas in the recipient's country and region.

"The Australia Awards promote the sharing of knowledge, strengthen mutual understanding between Thai and Australian scholars and build international networks, which continue long after the scholars have returned to Thailand. They reinforce our strong and enduring ties in our 60th anniversary of bilateral relations this year," said Ambassador Wise.

The awardees will undertake their study, research, or personal development at vocational, postgraduate, and postdoctoral level across a large number of fields including science, environment, agriculture, health, engineering, hospitality, business, education, law, regional stability and governance, and creative arts.

For further information - the Australia Awards website at www.australiaawards.gov.au

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Parents to get debit cards 

from govt for school 

supplies

THE NATION January 25, 2012 1:00 am

Instead of getting cash from the government to buy state-subsidised school supplies and 

uniforms, parents might be issued debit cards. The Basic Education Commission plans to 

authorise 7.8 million cards for parents of children in primary and high schools to use for the next 

semester opening in May. The credit in the cards follows the same pricing for students at 

various levels. School supplies run Bt100, Bt195, Bt210 and Bt230 for kindergarten, primary, 

lower and upper secondary levels, while uniforms are Bt300, Bt360, Bt450 and Bt500.

The agency still needs to seek approval from all parties, including shops that may not have 

card machines and parents who ay be charged an annual fee.

Secretary-general Chinnaphat Phoomirat said yesterday that the debit card scheme was 

supposed to be implemented before the current semester began in November.

However, the Government Savings Bank, which floated the idea, needed to charge up to Bt70 

per card and that was not acceptable. After negotiations, the GSB agreed to absorb the cost of 

the cards, but it has not yet been decided if the annual fee could also be waived. The GSB has 

said in a statement that it could provide card machines to all outlets, but for schools in remote 

areas, stores could use a card machine or the cash register of their cooperatives, he added.

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Teacher Short Story

A Teacher's Dream

by

James G. Fabiano

     One of my favorite days was happening. We all made a large circle around a picnic table covered with hamburgers, hot dogs, and every type of salad I had ever seen. It was the end of school party, at a colleague's house who lives on a lake in Nottingham, New Hampshire. The conversation started out easy and comfortable.It centered on the just-completed school year. To my dismay, most of my colleagues started to discuss how our school was being destroyed by the lack of funds, schoolboard politics, and a lack of values in the underclassmen and underclasswomen, (God, I hate being politically correct), brought to school from their homes.

The conversation also centered on how our profession was becoming the political fodder of both state and national policy. After a while, the conversation grew vicious and because I had just finished my fifth Old Brown Dog I made the mistake of opening my mouth.

"Does anyone remember why we got into teaching, in the first place?"

          My question produced silence from all of my co-workers in the circle. The silence didn't last long because it was replaced by a unified display of the 'who the hell made you king of arrogance' look."No, I mean it! Does anyone remember the philosophy which made all of us take the vows of celibacy, servitude, and of course poverty?" Well, a veteran history teacher, whose longevity in the school almost outweighed his size, asked me to remind them of what their philosophy was. In other words, he took me to task. Being the storyteller I am, I told the group that I would use a metaphor to describe what 'teaching' is to me.

         I tell them that the beginning of each year was like taking a group of young men and women to the base of a mountain. Always observing my students, I see that they are afraid and uncomfortable with what they were expected to do. I tell them that for the next 186 days I will show them how to climb the cliffs, and reach the plateau that was above the clouds and seemingly out of reach.

            Then, we start the climb by having me show them how to put one foot in front of the other; how to use their hands, legs, and more importantly their minds to reach the next stone. All my kids start to fall. I tell them that it is OK to fall; to make a mistake, because this is how we all learn, and get better at what we are trying to do. Some of my kids give up and simply fall down to the bottom of the mountain. I try and encourage them to continue but they simply do not want to take the chance to fail. I feel bad, yet I realize that I can't help everyone: I can only try.

          Looking around my small group of colleagues I notice that everyone is listening. I smile, take another sip, and continue. Halfway up the mountain, I see that my kids are beginning to build up a confidence in themselves. They help each other toclimb to the next level. Every now and then a child falls, but, the farther we climb up the mountain, fewer children make the decision not to continue. Now it is no longer a case of me showing them how to climb, as they work with each other, and find easier and better ways of achieving success. Every now and then I fall and I find my students helping me now. Students become teachers. We all become one, in the knowledge that we need each other to continue, and thus succeed.

          We finally reach the plateau and are dumbfounded by what we see. We observe the colors of life; the greens of their futures, the reds and oranges of their passion, and the blues of all their dreams. The air is new and clear. There are no clouds on the plateau, just an image that everything is do-able and achievable. I walk over to the edge where the view is even more dramatic and beautiful and tell them to come to the perimeter with me. They hesitate and tell me that they are still afraid. I chastise them; I teach them once more and tell them that they earned looking out at their futures. That, because of their hard work and perseverance, they have become competent in everything they attempt to do.They come to the edge of the plateau. I push them off.

And I watch them fly!

          The group surrounding the picnic table, which was now half-filled with food and empty plates, stayed silent for the next few minutes. An English teacher told me that I should write down my thoughts. I just smiled and said I probably would. I always do! The conversation then turned very positive. It became filled with hopes and visions of the next school year. Yes, a favorite day of mine was coming to an end, with another favorite day not far away.

The day when I group my students together, and tell them how we will climb the mountain.

The End.

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