Turkish Educational

The Turkish Cultural Foundation (TCF) lovers because of the World Affairs Councils of The united states (WACA) each year for Spotlight on Turkey, a national academic program.

Organized in collaboration with WACA and funded by TCF, the program runs a full season. It centers around offering an overview of this history of Anatolia and chicken with a particular focus on Turkish tradition to United states teachers while the public. With Teacher Workshops on Turkey into the springtime, Teachers learn Tours to Turkey in the summertime, and cultural programs when it comes to general public in autumn, the program emphasizes classroom understanding and community knowledge about Turkey and its efforts towards the global community. At the time of 2015, 575 US teachers went to Turkey on TCF Teacher research Tours and over 3, 500 instructors learned about Turkey within instructor Workshops with approximately student influence of almost 370, 000.

In 2015, TCF is working together with the next 12 WACA councils: Santa Fe Council on Overseas Relations, World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C., Pacific and Asian Affairs Council (Hawaii), Northern Nevada Overseas Center, Montana World Affairs Council, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh, Dayton Council on World Affairs, World Affairs Council of Las Vegas, World Affairs Council of Seattle, World Affairs Council of Houston, World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana, World Affairs Council of Inland Southern California. 48 instructors were selected to participate in the 2015 TCF Teacher learn Tours, of organized on Summer 27-July 11 and July 21-August 4. The tours started in Istanbul and traveled through Bursa, Canakkale, Gelibolu (Gallipoli) and Troy, Kusadasi, Pamukkale, Konya and Catalhoyuk, Cappadocia and Ankara. Through the trip, teachers visited world-famous cultural, archaeological, architectural and normal web sites of Turkey and met with diplomats, policy specialists, educators and representatives of Turkish civil society. Four volunteer Turkish teachers accompanied the trips with a view to facilitate exchanges between Turkish and US teachers. Educators whom participated in the 2015 tours will prepare now create session plans on Turkey with their own classroom, which will be shared with the educational neighborhood through the TCF Share Your Lesson Plan platform. The Spotlight on chicken program will today carry on with social programs when it comes to average man or woman, organized by participating councils.