Exchange Student as Resources

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SEA-USA suggests 20 ways to use foreign exchange students as resources in the school and classroom. SEA-USA offers ways that International Student Exchange can be a practical approach for peace. resources for the school and classroom

Exchange Students have so much to contribute to their host family, host community, and host schools -- and they really would like to contribute!

Following are 20 ways that foreign exchange students can serve as a resource in the school and classroom. For greatest effectiveness, identify a teacher who will step forward and serve as a facilitator.

Frequently Asked Questions about Hosting an Exchange Student.

20 ways that foreign exchange students can serve as a resource in the school and classroom

Serve as a tutor or conversation partner for another student, serve as an assistant in a foreign language class, or serve as a resource for students working on country projects.
Be a member of a panel of international students and exchange representatives talking about their cultures and experiences as part of a foreign language or social studies class.
Share the Pen Pal website and help establish pen pals with the host school.
Organize an exhibit in the library focusing on “my country.”
Encourage the school to publicly recognize exchange student relationships over the years through a flag display or on-going exhibit of one artifact from each country by the school entrance.
Be a part of a library brown bag lunch series on “Schooling Around the World.”
Join in on a school, system, or region-wide day-long forum for American and exchange students on an international issue such as the environment.
Be part of a mock school United Nations team sponsored by the YMCA/YWCA or another club within the school.
Help organize an evening “Exchange Fair” to publicize exchange opportunities to students and their parents – and include international desserts!
Organize an international dinner and talent show or celebrate a fiesta from another country for the community.
Participate in the morning announcements by speaking in another language or ask questions on the “Country of the Week”.
Help organize a video for the school in which people, representing cultures of all kinds, talk about prejudice and ways of overcoming it.
Write a series of articles for the local newspaper “Bringing a Global Perspective to __________ High”.
Assist in organizing a “World Beat” dance with music from around the world.
Demonstrate games and sports from home/host country in physical education classes.
Help construct graphs in a math class showing comparative information about countries represented by exchange students.
Help organize an art exhibit with a common theme, illustrated by people from different countries.
Visit an elementary classroom a couple of times so children get to know a visiting exchange student. Teach counting, teach a simple song in their native tongue, or share some food and field questions.
Visit a middle school classroom and talk about a day in the life of a 12-14 year-old in the home country.
Be a constant resource in a social studies class, offering a view from another country.

Look for new and creative ways for resource use!

Learn about the Benefits Schools Receive with student exchange

Ways International Student Exchange Can Be A Practical Approach To Peace

resources for the school and classroom For many thousands of years, students have been crossing cultural and national borders for educational purposes. In recent years, more than a million students worldwide have traveled across borders for schooling to improve their educational learning.

Exchange has been vital in helping individual participants to:

Realize an enhanced international perspective
Develop greater knowledge of the world we live in
Increase personal maturity
Cultivate greater interpersonal and technical skills
Reach higher foreign language proficiency
Demonstrate an overall reluctance to stereotypes and distortions of other cultures

SEA supports high schools with a Conversion table of International Grades to US Grades

For Societies and Nations, Exchange has also been credited with:

Contributing to political and economic development
Encouraging foreign policy goal formulation
Enhancing government sensitivity to other nations’ interests

Learn about the “Hosting Experience” at SEA

EXCHANGE gives a Practical Approach to Peace::

Exchange Promotes Positive Cross-Cultural Contact
Exchange Improves Cross-Cultural Attitudes, Reduces Prejudice, Corrects Stereotypes
Exchange Develops Personal Traits Which Enhance Liking and Respect for Other Cultures
Exchange Enhances Cross-Cultural Skills
Exchange Develops Leadership and Promotes International Involvement

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