Fellow Program
What is 10 months?
This is the item of ELP-branded clothing that all members of the Specialist team should make sure to pack in their suitcases.
What is red Specialist t-shirt?
This is the newest member of the Virtual Educator team, whose first day at ELP is March 18!
Who is Marie van Romburgh?
This RELO is hosting a lunch for Russian participants, and also Specialists and Virtual Educators working on projects with those participants.
Who is Jenn Uhler?
These are the words that spell out "OELP"
This is the level of education that you must have attained by the time of your application to be considered for the Fellow program.
What is a master's degree (preferably in TESOL or a related field)?
This is the how many years of full time post bachelor's degree teaching experience is needed to be eligible for the English Language Specialist Program.
What is 10 years?
(But if you only just meet the minimum eligibility criteria, you are not likely to be rostered to a project).
This is the maximum number of contact hours per week for Virtual Educators.
What is 10?
When this RELO is away
He always has something to say
His out-of-office replies
Make us smile (and roll our eyes)
Who is Eran Williams?
These are the Global Program Officers for the Fellow and Virtual Educator programs.
Who are Jenny Hodgson and Kate Bain?
This is someone on the ELP team who can talk about traveling with dependents as a Fellow. (2 possible answers)
Who are Thomas and Thaddeus?
This Specialist and current Alumni Ambassador will be departing for Mexico shortly after TESOL on a Speaker project. He'll be the first to receive the newly created Speaker project agreement template.
Who is Chris Stillwell?
This is the hourly stipend for Virtual Educators.
What is $35/hour?
These are the three RELOs/RPOs who will be leaving ECA this summer to go to language training or go to their first post abroad.
Who are Christen Brady, Allen Lynn, and Chris Hastings?
These are the the OELP programs/resources that may be interest to non U.S. citizens who visit the ELPrograms booth.
What are OPEN* MOOCs, English Access Mircroscholarship Program, American English webinars, and English Teaching Forum?
*Online Professional English Network
This is when the application for the 24-25 Fellow cycle closes.
What is July 2024?
This is one of the newest members of the Specialist pool. She is presenting at TESOL, and will be going to China this summer on project CY24-S-046.
Who is Charlene Polio?
This is the response if an applicant asks if it possible to have more than one project in the same academic year.
What is "yes"? (But new applicants are prioritized).
This is the RELO Assistant in Brazil.
Who is Helmara Moraes?
This is what you should say if an alum says to you: "Can you tell me where X RELO is posted right now?" or "Can you tell me X RELO's email address"?
What is "No"? (But to be nice, you can point them to https://americanenglish.state.gov/support-near-you-regional-english-language-officer-relo)
This is the amount of teaching experience that you need to be eligible to be a Fellow.
What is "Minimum 5 yrs full-time experience in education including 3 yrs full-time ESL/EFL classroom teaching experience"?
(But note that the average age of Fellows in the current 23-24 cohort is 47, with ages ranging from 27-70s)
This policy counts multi-phase and multi-country projects as one project.
What is "1-1-1"?
This is the reason that you can't be a Virtual Educator if you already have been a Fellow or a Specialist.
What is "The mission of English Language Programs is to offer cultural exchange opportunities to as many educators as possible, and to welcome as many new participants to the program as possible every year. This is also why former Fellows are not eligible to be Fellows again."
These are the RELO Assistants in Thailand.
Who are Karuna "Fon" Naphon and Korajak "Vic" Na Songkhla?
This is the Director of OELP.
Who is Susan Bell?