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20 US Teachers Visit HU



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On October 22, 2007, 20 teachers from the United States visited our school as part of the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program. The group of teachers heard welcome speeches from Vice President Ninomiya and Dean Sakakoshi of the Graduate School of Education. Ms. Babb Timothy, from Mountain Heritage High School in North Carolina, gave a speech as a representative of the group. The group heard an explanation from Associate Professor Yanase of the Graduate School of Education entitled, "Prospectives and Challenges in Teacher Training at the Hiroshima University Graduate School of Education" and held a lively question and answer session on topics such as the Japanese education system.



Later on at a gathering of faculty and students from the Graduate School of Education, active exchanges of opinion took place about the current state of education in both countries such as the faculty examination system, special education, the bullying issue, etc. They next visited the library where library staff explained the building as toured it. The teachers were deeply impressed by the beauty of the ancient documents housed in the University Archives.



The Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program, settled at the April 1996 Japan-US Summit Meeting between Prime Minister Hashimoto and President Clinton, began in 1997. Each year, 600 US elementary and secondary educators are invited to Japan with the aim of education exchanges between Japanese and US, and in gratitude for the Fulbright Exchange Program, which has contributed to study abroad of about 6,800 Japanese studying abroad in the US since 1952.



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The International Planning and Cooperation Group

Ms. Masako Ono



Tel: 082-424-6064

E-mail: kokusai-group (at) office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp



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