This course was taught with the collaboration and expertise of Prof. In the pilot edition, a partnership was also signed with the Municipal Department of Education of Curitiba, with the purpose of offering a course focused on Portuguese as an Additional Language to teachers who work with students non-speakers of Portuguese at primary schools. In addition, the courses have developed pedagogical studies and practices for intercultural collaborative learning among the participants, both locally and internationally. ![]() The courses provided an opportunity for intercultural interaction between teachers educators, undergraduate and post-graduate students from both universities, English language teachers from the public Basic Education system who work in Curitiba and the metropolitan region, and teachers from the public system in Ohio (from different segments and areas of knowledge). The pilot edition promoted, through the course “Shared Teacher Education in Brazil: UFPR – Otterbein”, training focused on teaching English and Portuguese as an Additional Language (PLA) to work with migrant students in multilingual and multicultural contexts. ![]() In order to expand and enhance the intercultural and international training activities promoted during the exchanges, we created in 2018, with the interaction between the Department of Theory and Practice of Teaching (DTPEN), the Department of Modern Foreign Languages (DELEM) of UFPR and the Department of Education of Otterbein University the proposal of Edition 1 (or Pilot) of this project. The teacher education exchange also took place in Curitiba, with Otterbein’s teacher trainers at UFPR and a local public school. With a cooperation agreement between UFPR and the University of Otterbein, as an action for internationalization in both universities, the intercultural teacher education exchange was repeated in 2017 in Ohio, when a UFPR teacher educator, a collaborator of the project, two master’s student teachers of English and Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) at UFPR’s Center for Languages and Interculturalism (CELIN), and two technicians from Curitiba’s municipal education department (SME) traveled and participated in Summer Academy Tesol activities in July 2017. ![]() The course aimed at developing work with English language literacy projects, especially considering the growing audience of international students in elementary schools in Ohio. In the same year, the exchange included cultural and pedagogical activities at local public schools and a theoretical-practical teacher training course for Otterbein postgraduate students and teachers from different areas of knowledge. The project Teachers without Borders started from a partnership between the areas of education at UFPR and Otterbein University (Ohio-EUA), in the exchange of teachers educators and graduating teachers of UFPR to learn about and be a part of teacher educating projects that the American university offered during Summer Academy Tesol in 2016.
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