IVLP - program + professional objectives

Today the draft proposal of our IVLP visit arrived. We will visit Washington, Kalamazoo and Providence. We will be visiting the following schools:

• Albert Einstein High School
• Chantilly Academy

We will be in meetings to discuss similarities and differences between our Education system. These are the professional objectives:
The Department of State has outlined the following specific objectives for the project:

• Provide participants with a better understanding of the differences and similarities between the U.S. and the Dutch education systems
• Examine different educational methods that teach digital and media literacy skills and the use of new technologies in the classroom.
• Learn best practices within secondary school education from curriculum design to teacher training
• Examine public-private and public-public partnership opportunities in teaching digital and media literacy skills in secondary school curricula