Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program 2025/2026 (Fulbright TEA) for Teachers (Fully Funded to the United States)

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Application Deadline: Varying by Country

Applications are actually open for the 2025/2026 Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program. The Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program brings worldwide educators to the United States for a six-week skilled studying program that includes tutorial seminars at a number college and co-teaching placements at space faculties. Participants observe lecture rooms, team-teach, and share their experience with educators and college students at the host college and at quite a lot of public, personal (secular or faith-based), or constitution faculties. Participants additionally take part in civic and cultural actions of their host communities.

Program Components

Teachers who’re chosen to take part in the Fulbright TEA Program will:
1) Take part in tailor-made graduate-level seminars at a U.S. host college.
2) Observe lessons, co-teach, and share their experience with U.S. colleagues in U.S. secondary faculties.
3) Engage in an internet skilled studying neighborhood with different individuals to share greatest practices and different components of host and home nation instructional programs; and
4) Take part in different instructional and cultural actions whereas on program in the United States

Upon returning home, lecturers will share the data and expertise gained on the program with lecturers and college students of their home faculties and communities.

Requirements

• Are you at the moment a full-time, secondary-level educator dwelling and working in considered one of the taking part Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement international locations or territories and wanting to discover new instructing methodologies, to develop your expertise with tutorial expertise, and study the U.S. instructional system?
• Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement is open to educators in all disciplines together with English as a overseas language, overseas languages, journalism, communications, STEM (science, expertise, engineering, and math), social research, particular training, and others at establishments serving primarily a neighborhood inhabitants.
• Applicants should possess a bachelor’s diploma or equal training and expertise, and exhibit English language proficiency.
• Applicants will need to have the potential to journey to the United States for six weeks.

Benefits

• Travel: IREX will make worldwide journey preparations and present all lecturers with a world airline ticket and a journey allowance to cowl the price of incidental bills. Fulbright lecturers may even be reimbursed for round-trip journey bills between their home metropolis and the level of departure for the United States; nonetheless, individuals (or U.S. Embassies and Fulbright Commissions) are accountable for making these home journey preparations to and from the worldwide airport.
• Housing: Participants will dwell on or close to the host college campus in housing in rooms organized for them by the college. Dependents (spouses, kids, and many others.) aren’t permitted to accompany the lecturers on the program.
• Maintenance Allowances: Each Fulbright instructor will obtain a upkeep allowance throughout the program to cowl bills reminiscent of provides for lessons, home items, private objects, and cultural and different actions. Included on this whole is a day by day stipend to buy groceries, meals at native eating places, or meals from on-campus eating providers.

University Coursework:

Weekly Seminars: Teachers will take part in weekly seminars at their host college that includes shows and discussions led by college employees, college members, and invited instructional specialists.

The Fulbright TEA Program gives tutorial seminars specializing in new instructing methodologies, student-centered studying, content-based instruction, lesson planning, and tutorial expertise coaching for lecturers.

U.S. School Placements: The program may even embrace a practicum of at the very least 40 hours with a U.S. companion instructor in a secondary faculty close to the host college to actively have interaction individuals in the U.S. classroom setting. Cultural enrichment, mentoring, and help will probably be offered to individuals all through the program.

Program Dates

Spring 2026

• By September 5, 2025: U.S. Embassies and Fulbright Commissions verify finalists’ acceptance of award and submit required paperwork: signed Terms and Conditions for each Spring 2026 and Fall 2026 Cohorts and accomplished participant medical kinds for Spring 2026 Cohort solely.
• November 2025: U.S. Embassies and Fulbright Commissions obtain DS-2019 kinds and pre-departure orientation (PDO) supplies and schedules visa interviews/pre-departure orientations for Spring 2026 Cohort.
• November–December 2025: U.S. Embassies and Fulbright Commissions conduct visa interviews and PDO for Spring 2026 Cohort (ensuring to permit enough time, relying on the nation context).
• Late January 2026: Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program
• Spring 2026 Cohort Fellows start their six-week program in the United States.
• Mid-March 2026: End of Spring 2026 U.S. program. Fall 2026 By January 30, 2026: U.S. Embassies and Fulbright Commissions ship Fall 2026 Cohort accomplished participant medical kinds.
• June 2026: IREX sends DS-2019 kinds and pre-departure orientation supplies and schedules visa interviews/PDOs for Fall 2026 Cohort.
• June–July 2026: U.S. Embassies and Fulbright Commissions conduct visa interviews and PDOs for Fall 2026 Cohort (ensuring to permit enough time, relying on the nation context).
• September 2026: Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program
• Fall 2026 Cohort Fellows start their six week program in the United States.
• Late October 2026: End of Fall 2026 U.S. program.

Participating Countries

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program