U.S. Embassy in Latvia Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) 2026 (Fully-funded)

Deadline: April 10, 2025

Applications are open for the U.S. Embassy in Latvia Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) 2026. TEA will present roughly 160 secondary faculty academics from Europe and Eurasia, East Asia and the Pacific, the Near East, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Western Hemisphere with distinctive alternatives to develop experience in their topic areas, improve their educating expertise, and improve their data in regards to the United States.

Teachers might be hosted by the U.S. universities, in January 2026 and September 2026 and divided into cohorts of about 20 academics at every college. Their program will embody seminars on new educating methodologies, curriculum improvement, lesson planning, and tutorial know-how. The 6-week program can even embody a practicum in a secondary faculty close to the host college to work intently with American academics and college students. Trips to U.S. cultural websites and educational assist might be supplied for contributors all through this system.

Benefits

The TEA fellowship is totally funded and gives:

J-1 visa assist

A pre-departure orientation held in participant’s home nation
Round-trip airfare to and throughout the U.S.
Baggage allowance

A welcome orientation in Washington, D.C.
Academic program charges
Housing (typically shared with different program fellows) and meals

Accident and illness protection
Transportation to the internship faculty (if obligatory)
A guide/skilled improvement allowance

A closing seminar

Eligibility

Be secondary-degree with at the least a Bachelor’s diploma or the equal, full-time academics with three or extra years of classroom expertise in both English as a Foreign Language, Social Studies, Journalism, or Communications, Math, together with particular schooling academics in these topics, at establishments serving primarily an area inhabitants;

Be residents of Latvia;
Have proficiency in written and spoken English, minimal TOEFL rating from 45 to 46 iBT;
Continue educating for at the least 5 years after completion of this system; and