Field Orientation and Training

Our next training / field orientation is scheduled for May 15-19 in Texas.  

This will involve:

* Kurdish culture and language training (12 hours) - so you can learn and practice survival language and culture skills

* training in teaching English as a foreign language (10-20 hours) - general teaching principles and specific training in using the New Bridges materials that we'll be teaching from during the summer

* orientation to 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


Classes in Northern Iraq

We'll arrive in N. Iraq May 30.  Then we'll have until June 16 to get settled in, get our visas, have more orientation, and prepare for our super-intensive classes.  Classes will be June 19 - July 18.  Classes will be 6 days a week, 2 hours a day.