New Agreement with ETS to Benefit UAE Individuals and Institutions
Abu Dhabi, December 7, 2010 — America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc. (AMIDEAST) has been named ETS Global’s Country Master Distributor (CMD) in the United Arab Emirates under a three-year agreement signed today in Abu Dhabi. The new agreement benefits UAE students, educators, businesses, and other institutions by expanding their access to world-recognized tests of English for both academic and professional purposes.
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Teachers of Critical Languages Program
Program Summary
Through the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP), Egyptian teachers are helping American youth meet the challenges of learning Arabic while enriching the students’ understanding of the region. For three years beginning in 2008, AMIDEAST has worked as a subcontractor to American Councils for International Education to recruit the Egyptian teachers, who spend a year teaching Arabic language and culture for an academic year at primary and secondary schools across the United States. The program, which is funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State, is also designed to provide the Egyptian teachers with opportunities to learn more about U.S. teaching methodologies, culture, and society, as well as to improve their English language proficiency.
Kennedy-Lugar YES Program in Bahrain
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program was established in October, 2002 and sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to provide scholarships for high school students (15-17 years) from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the U.S. The program is vital to expanding communication between the people of the United States and the partner countries in the interest of promoting mutual understanding and respect. Students live with host families, attend high school, engage in activities to learn about American society and values, acquire leadership skills, and help educate Americans about their countries and cultures.
YES SCHOLARS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:
- Live with an American family
- Study at a U.S. high school
- Participate in a youth leadership training program
- Experience U.S. culture and society first hand
- Improve their English
- Make new friends
- Represent as Bahrain cultural ambassadors to the USA
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
Workshop on Autism
WORKSHOP: AUTISM
PLACE: AMIDEAST, CERT Technology Park, Muroor Street, Abu Dhabi
DATE: 19th January, 2010
TIME: 9:00a.m. - 12:00p.m.
COST: AED250, per participant
CERTIFICATE: Certificate of Completion & Participation
Autism afflicts one out of every 100 to 166 children and it affects the lives of many children and their families (DiCicco-Bloom et al, 2006). It tends to affect about five boys to every one girl (First, 2008).
Can you identify autistic children in your classroom? Do you know what to look out for? Would you know the difference in the behavior of an autistic child as opposed to one that was suffering from Asperger Syndrome?
Workshop on ADD/ADHD
How common are learning difficulties? More common than you would imagine. About 25% or more of your class could be sufferring from a learning difficulty without you even being aware that this is so. In the USA, as many as 1 out of every 5 people has a learning disability. Almost 3 million children (ages 6 through 21) have some form of learning disability and receive special education in school.
That might sound shocking, and it is, but not as shocking as having the same number of children in schools throughout the UAE who get ignored because their teachers haven't been trained to identify learning difficulties and to put into place coping strategies for those children affected.
Workshop on Dyslexia
What causes? What are the different types of dyslexia? What are the signs and symptoms of dyslexia, and if you had a child in your classroom that had this learning disability, would you know how to help him?
Come to the workshop on dyslexia in Abu Dhabi, and learn the answers to these questions. In addition, learn some strategies and techniques to implement in your classes and give your students coping and compensation skills to help with this very difficult, but common, learning difficulty.
No child should be left behind, but those who get passed from one teacher to the next, pushed through from this grade to that grade without learning anything along the way is a situation all too common these days.
GMAT® Course
What is the GMAT?
The Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) is a computer adaptive examination administered year-round at test centers throughout the world. The GMAT exam measures verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills developed over a long period of time.
It is specifically designed to help graduate management programs assess the qualification of applicants for advanced study in business and management.
GMAT scores are used by approximately 4,700 graduate management programs at more than 1,900 schools.
