On September 6th, Sarah Matthews will travel to Madrid, Spain in advance of her 9-month award to serve as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The program will span from mid-September 2023 through June 2024. During her time there, Sarah will live in central Madrid and work as an ETA at a bilingual high school in a suburb north of Madrid. She will assist local teachers with activities and lessons by helping teach English language and serving as a cultural ambassador for the United States. Additionally, Sarah will undertake an independent community engagement project and support her school’s Global Classrooms program (similar to the Model United Nations program in many American high schools). Through this experience, Sarah will have the opportunity to meet, work, live with, and learn from the people of Spain.
The Fulbright Program is the world’s largest and most diverse international educational exchange program; it is overseen by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Program partners with more than 140 countries worldwide to offer grantees opportunities to pursue graduate study, conduct research, or teach English abroad. It is a program specifically dedicated to “increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.”
Feel free to reach out to Sarah via email with any questions or encouragement (before or after her departure).