International Education without Time Difference
Seminar on International Education & Exchange Practices for K-12
　

  On June 17^th, 2010, an international education delegation from Saginaw, Michigan, visiting MOE, participating in Seminar on International Education & Exchange Practices for K-12. There were 15 people in this delegation including college professors, principals, teachers of special education, social studies, art in middle school and elementary schools etc..

  This seminar was divided into three sessions according to different themes. In the beginning, director general of BICER, Dr. Liu, Ching-Jen gave welcoming remarks, while Dr. Stephen Barbus, dean of SVSU, remarked on behalf of American representative. After the introduction to each other, there were several presentations about the current international education and exchange practices in Taiwan.

  Chiang, Hui-chen, principal of Paul Hsu High School, who represented SSEi program office introducing “Secondary School Exchange International” program, Principal Chiang presented how secondary schools in Taiwan have implemented so far, along with an introduction of resourceful websites and the international exchange window.

  In addition to SSEi program, local education bureau from Taipei City, Taipei County and Tainan City presented their current international education status and characteristics of their representative schools as well. Moreover, Wu, Tsuey-Ling, the director of Feng-hsin Senior High School presented iEARN Taiwan and introduced the online program exchange.
　

Cultural attache of BICER, Chiu Julie shared the current international education and exchange practices in Taiwan.

Chiang, Hui-chen, principal of Paul Hsu High School, introduced the SSEi program to American educators.

  The third session was Tea Time and Bilateral Exchange. In both sides of the meeting room, representatives from SSEi group, iEARN Taiwan, local education bureau group showed their brochures and felt free to discuss with American representatives. At shared feedback time, American educators asked questions willingly, even asked about the application progress, subsidies and implementation of SSEi program. Principal Chiang shared her experiences about how to prepare the exchange program, including connection between schools, precede program, savings from students and so on.

  In the end, Dr. Yang, Chang-Yu, director of department of elementary education, MOE, summarized for this seminar, leaving an impressive experience to broaden our international education. For sure, it is not the end, but a new start to the cooperation between Michigan and Taiwan.