Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad to South Korea

Education Fever: Lessons For Great Plains K – 12 Teachers in Korea’s Education System Summer 2020

    Eligible participants must be:
  1. A citizen, national, or permanent resident of the United States.
  2. A full-time teacher in 2019- 2020 and 2020-2021 (or pre-service teacher who will graduate in 2019-2020 who plans to teach full time in 2020-2021)
  3. Elementary or secondary teachers of geography, social studies, world history, or world language (including English as a second language).

As part of the application below, you will be asked for three files. Your resume, a letter of support from one of your school administrators, and an essay: How Korean Studies / Language Could Fit into My Teaching.

In your essay please address the following:

  1. How you will integrate Korean studies into your teaching. It is a requirement of the program that you devise a plan for integrating Korean studies and/or language into some of your lessons in 2020-2021. Describe how you might do that and the opportunities you see for including Korean studies / language in your classroom.
  2. Who you are as a teacher, i.e. your philosophy, motivation, and goals

Submission deadline: November 19, 2019.
Please contact Dr. Jenelle Reeves (jreeves2@unl.edu) for more information.



(school address, home address, work and personal phone numbers, school and personal email addresses)
(content area(s) and grade level)
(Please include the course titles you are currently teaching and those you will likely to teach in spring 2020)

This program lasts four weeks (approximately June 12 – July 10th), and participants must be available to be in South Korea for all 28 days of the program.


Travel history
(with year of travel; length of stay)

Language Proficiency

Second language proficiency is not required to participate in this program.

(Please indicate the languages that you speak at or beyond the basic beginner level.)
(Provide either a self-assessment or a standardized test score / level, e.g. ACTFL Proficiency.)


Please upload your current resume.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png txt rtf pdf doc docx zip.
Please upload your essay.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png txt rtf html pdf doc docx zip.
Please upload your letter of support.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png txt rtf html pdf doc docx zip.