Transatlantic Orientation Exchange Work Group
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Description of the Transatlantic Orientation (TOE) Work Group
The Transatlantic Orientation Exchange is a collaboration between AFS-USA and AFS-Germany, the goal of which is to increase the level of intercultural learning of German and U.S. participants and their host families. AFS-USA and AFS-Germany are the two largest partners in the AFS network. Each year Germany sends approximately 450 students to the USA and hosts approximately 100 from the USA. In order to improve the quality of these exchanges, host family orientation materials were developed in a dialogue process between work groups in the USA and Germany. Each work group was be comprised of six volunteers and one staff member. This section of the Wiki contains a record of the group's work, related resources, and recommendations should this project, or some version thereof, be replicated for other target countries.
TOE Project Timeline
In order to document this project and process so that we may both evaluate this project and replicate the process for other countries, we have captured all the details here. Since the major events of the project quite naturally were our face-to-face meetings, the project has been split into separate WIKI pages about each of these major events plus the inter-meeting times where event pre-work or follow-up was being done. For each of these project periods we will capture details about the work that was done, evaluative comments, and resources which were helpful
- Grant Preparation - Fall 2006 (Robin)
- Team Selection - Winter 2006 (Al)
- Germany pre-work - January 2007 thru September 2007 (Al)
- Host Family Data Gathering (Robin)
- Literature Review (Al)
- US-Germany Teamwork (Lynn)
- Meeting in Germany - September 14-22, 2007 (Mary Kay and Joann)
- Germany followup - October 2007 (Mary Kay and Joann)
- National team meeting 1 - November 2-4, 2007 (Cia)
- Chicago pre-work - November 2007 thru March 2008 (Catherine and Cia)
- Meeting in Chicago - March 25-30, 2008 (Catherine and Cia)
- Chicago followup - April 2008 thru September 2008 (Catherine and Cia)
- National team meeting 2 - October 3-5, 2008 (Robin and Lynn)
- Project wrapup - October 2008 thru June 2009 (Robin and Al)
TOE Call Agendas and Notes
This section contains the most recent and any uncoming call notes and agendas. Past call notes are embedded in the TOE Project Timeline under the section to which they pertain.
- Agenda TOE Call, November 20, 2008
- Agenda TOE Call, January 8, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, February 10, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, February 24, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, March 17, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, March 31, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, April 14, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, April 7, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, April 28, 2009
- Agenda TOE Call, May 12, 2009
TOE Parking Lot
The parking lot details "to do's directly related to the project as well as other tasks generated as a result of the project, i.e. revisions to various AFS publications.
