Hosting Orientation Work Group
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Introduction
The purpose of a Hosting Orientation Work Group (HOW) is to build upon the success of the initial work group (called the Transatlantic Orientation Exchange Work Group) that was set up to produce materials that would help increase the intercultural understanding of participants and host families between a country pair. There are two versions of a work group. An "intensive" version would consist of a pair of groups, one in each country of the pair, who would assist each other in developing an understanding of the cultural differences between the two countries and produce a pair of complementary materials for use in each country (i.e. host families in country X hosting students from country Y and host families in country Y hosting students from country X). The abbreviated version of the work group would only produce a manual for host families in country X hosting students from country Y, although they would certainly consult with those who understood both cultures, i.e. returnees, etc.
Timeline
Following the success of the TOE work group and project wrapup in the fall of 2008, the participants of this project were eager to share their experience by helping to lead additional work group. Because a successful project requires a certain amount of funding, the initial set of work groups were set up for some of the YES (Youth Exchange and Study) partners at the meeting with the YES partners in March 2009. The YES budget funded these next set of work groups.
HOW Call Agendas and Notes
The leaders of the IND and INA HOWs meet on regular basis to discuss and plan their respective projects.
- Agenda HOW Call, Mar 21, 2011
- Agenda HOW Call, Feb 7, 2011
- Agenda HOW Call, Jan 18, 2011
- Agenda HOW Call, Jan 6, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Dec 17, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Nov 4, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Oct 28, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Oct 21, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Oct 13, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Oct 7, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Sept 16, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Sept 9, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Sept 2, 2010
- Agenda HOW Call, Aug 24, 2010
- Agenda HOW call, Mar 10, 2010
- Agenda HOW call, Feb 24, 2010
- Agenda HOW call, Feb 8, 2010
- Agenda HOW call Jan 26, 2010
- Agenda HOW call May 19, 2009
- Agenda HOW call Sept 17, 2009
- Agenda HOW call Oct 8, 2009
- Agenda HOW call Oct 29, 2009
HOW Parking Lot
US Members of the the THA, TUR and EGY HOW had their first national meeting on November 6-8. The below is the Parking Lot from this meeting.
HOW Meeting November 6-8 Parking Lot
Handbook Framework
In order to have a consistency in presentation and use, we need to have an overall framework for all the orientation materials that are produced with these projects. The development and discussion of this topic is located here.
Resources
- Country Specific Host Family Handbooks
- HOW Partner interest form and checklist
- HOW Background Information and Application Instructions
- HOW 09-10 Project Plan
- HOW Leader job description
- HOW Member job description
- Transatlantic Orientation Exchange Work Group
- Handbook for U.S. Families Hosting German Participants
- Sample Survey for Host Families
- Sample Group Leader/Member Application
- Cultural and Programmatic Resources
Note that many of the current projects are being funded through the YES consortium (AFS, AIFS, PAX, ACES, CIEE). Below are the number of students in some of those programs for NH 2010. AFS will also host 20 of 50 Malaysian YES students in SH11.
- Egypt - 50 (AFS 19 )
- Ghana - 35 (AFS 12 )
- India - 45 (AFS 17 )
- Indonesia - 103(AFS 38)
- Kenya - 25(AFS 10)
- Mozambique 10 - (AFS 3)
- Philippines - 40(AFS 16 )
- South Africa - 6 (AFS 2)
- Saudi Arabia - 20(AFS 7)
- Thailand - 20 (AFS 7 ), plus non YES
- Turkey - 48 (AFS 19 ), plus non YES
- Totals - ACES-26, AFS-150, AIFS-64, CIEE-53, PAX-109
