Each year roughly 850 faculty and professionals from around the world receive Fulbright Scholar awards for advanced research and university lecturing in the United States. Individual awards are available to scholars from over 100 countries.

U.S. Higher Education institutions are instrumental to the success of the Fulbright mission. They are key allies in advancing the goal of sharing knowledge across communities, promoting mutual understanding across nations and improving lives around the world.

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Amy Forss

Job title

History Program Subject Coordinator

aforss@mccneb.edu

Academic year

February 2014 - May 2014

Discipline

History

Project

TESOL Instruction in an ESL Hungarian Classroom

Institution

Metropolitan Community College

Countries

Hungary

As the History Program Subject Coordinator I assist in hiring adjunct history instructors, run meetings, follow-up on issues concerning adjuncts, do classroom observations, chair the committee deciding our history textbooks, and teach my regular load each quarter. Currently, I am completing a manuscript re-examining the women’s movement through material culture.

While serving as a US Fulbright Scholar at the Teacher Training College in Kecskemet, Hungary, I taught classes in African American History, American Literature and 4 sections of Conversational English (two classes with college students, 1 with elementary students and 1 with faculty.) Teaching overseas made me realize there are unlimited types of methodology. After teaching ESL college and primary students in “technology light” classrooms, (some only had a chalkboard and a single piece of chalk.) I now understand the meaning of and the necessity for engaged learning activities.

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My Fulbright lectures in Veszprém, Pécsand Debrecen, Hungary and in Berlin, Germany.
Teaching African American History in a Hungarian classroom.
Creating an online course for my home college from my adventures abroad.

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Amy Forss