Field Orientation and Training

Our next training / field orientation is scheduled to be in the Washington, D.C. area
May 24-June 11, 2010. 

This will involve:

* Kurdish culture and language training (30 hours) - so you can learn and practice survival language and culture skills

* training in teaching English as a foreign language (20 hours) - general teaching principles and specific training in using the New Bridges materials that we'll be teaching from during the summer

* orientation to our organization and to northern Iraq / the Kurds

* team building

* training in good communication skills (6 hours)

* training in communicating the important things in life to people from the Middle East

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Classes in Northern Iraq

We'll arrive in N. Iraq June 14.  Then we'll have a few days of of orientation and Kurdish language/culture learning, and English class registration.  Summer classes will begin around June 22 and end around August 3.  Classes will be 5 days a week, 2 hours a day.  Stay through the first week of August to have more time to hang out with your students and do some more travel and touristy things.  Join us!