AustraLearn Chooses Michelle "Shelly" Jackson of Florida as 2008 Winner of Future International Educator/Alumni of the Year Award
Denver, Colo. -- A 24-year-old Florida woman aggressive to accompany a career in all-embracing apprenticeship afterwards studying abroad in New Zealand is the 2008 Future International Educator/Alumni of the Year, an accolade presented annually to one outstanding actor of the AustraLearn / AsiaLearn / EuroLearn abstraction abroad programs.
2008 Future International Educator/Alumni of the Year Shelly Jackson
Many acceptance acknowledgment from belief abroad with a abundant added carnal perspective, but alone a baby articulation appear home bent to accomplish all-embracing apprenticeship the focus of their beginning careers The ambition of this accolade is to animate and abutment the next bearing of all-embracing educators We feel Shelly epitomizes just what this accolade strives to promote. I don't attending at traveling as a anniversary or a trip I attending at it as a acquirements acquaintance and a way to accept the apple better. I don't anticipate that's something you can get out of your system. It's a allotment of me. The Maori ability in New Zealand is just breathtaking It's a actual rich, textured and layered culture. They accept so abounding belief and legends, admirable art work, dances and food, and it's so intertwined in Kiwi ability now, fortunately. I was afraid to apprehend that alone one percent of American acceptance abstraction abroad By accouterment acceptance of all ages and from every demographic with the befalling to apprentice and collaborate with humans from added nations via the Internet and cultural acreage trips, we can atom their admiration to go abroad and explore. My adage in activity is: The apple is your classroom, apprentice something I anticipate I'm traveling to be a apprentice forever. Michelle "Shelly" Jackson, a South Florida citizen and alum of Furman University in Greenville, S.C., who advised abroad at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, was called to accept the accolade by the AustraLearn's International Council.
As allotment of the award, AustraLearn is accouterment Jackson airfare, abode and allotment for the NAFSA 2008 Annual Conference & Expo May 25-30 in Washington, D.C. The 60th anniversary appointment is the world's better acquisition of professionals in all-embracing apprenticeship and exchange, cartoon added than 8,000 participants from 100 countries.
The acreage of all-embracing apprenticeship encompasses a array of careers geared against the development and abutment of all-embracing adventures for acceptance in the United States and overseas. These jobs draw from a advanced ambit of backgrounds to cover academy and university professionals developing and evaluating programs, advisers and across agents of affairs providers, government employees, researchers, and accompanying account providers, a allotment of others.
"Many acceptance acknowledgment from belief abroad with a abundant added carnal perspective, but alone a baby articulation appear home bent to accomplish international education the focus of their beginning careers," said Cynthia Banks, controlling administrator and architect of the Westminster, Colo.-based AustraLearn / AsiaLearn / EuroLearn, a arch provider of abstraction abroad programs to Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific, Asia and Europe.
"The ambition of this accolade is to animate and abutment the next bearing of all-embracing educators," Banks said. "We feel Shelly epitomizes just what this accolade strives to promote."
Award applicants have to aboriginal complete AustraLearn's enCompass program, a alternation of activities for AustraLearn affairs alumni to reflect and allotment their abstraction abroad adventures with others, and again address an article about their across acquaintance and why they ambition to plan in the acreage of all-embracing education.
In Jackson's essay, she wrote of her able admiration to in actuality abide in New Zealand during her 2005 division of study, rather than just be a company to the country.
"I don't attending at traveling as a anniversary or a trip," said Jackson, of Lake Worth, Fla. "I attending at it as a acquirements acquaintance and a way to accept the apple better. I don't anticipate that's something you can get out of your system. It's a allotment of me."
During her time in New Zealand, Jackson went above classroom contest and day-tripper excursions to seek out a job shadowing acquaintance at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, a civic building in Wellington.
"The Maori ability in New Zealand is just breathtaking," Jackson said. "It's a actual rich, textured and layered culture. They accept so abounding belief and legends, admirable art work, dances and food, and it's so intertwined in Kiwi ability now, fortunately."
After belief in New Zealand, Jackson alternate to Furman University and in 2006 completed her bachelor's amount in history. She again accomplished English in rural schools in France and formed in Washington, D.C., for a civic adolescence administration appointment afore abiding to her built-in Florida to analyze options for master's programs in all-embracing education.
During the NAFSA conference, Jackson will be accustomed at the anniversary AustraLearn Affiliate Advisor Luncheon, adumbration accomplished AustraLearn staff, arrangement with all-embracing apprenticeship professionals, abetment in AustraLearn's exhibition berth and crop on a abeyant project.
"I was afraid to apprehend that alone one percent of American acceptance study abroad," Jackson wrote in her essay. "By accouterment acceptance of all ages and from every demographic with the befalling to apprentice and collaborate with humans from added nations via the Internet and cultural acreage trips, we can atom their admiration to go abroad and explore."
Jackson is the additional almsman of the Future International Educator/Alumni of the Year Award. Last year's champ was Kelsey McNichols.
Jackson affairs to crop advantage of the abounding assets accessible during the appointment to apprentice about the growing possibilities in all-embracing education.
"My adage in activity is: The apple is your classroom, apprentice something," Jackson said. "I anticipate I'm traveling to be a apprentice forever."
About AustraLearn / AsiaLearn / EuroLearn (Educational Programs of GlobaLinks):
AustraLearn / AsiaLearn / EuroLearn (Educational Programs of GlobaLinks) provides year-long, division and added specialized abstraction abroad programs to destinations above the globe. Based alfresco Denver in Westminster, Colo., AustraLearn / AsiaLearn / EuroLearn has beatific added than 18,000 acceptance from the United States and Canada to abstraction abroad back its founding in 1990.
As the arch provider of abstraction abroad programs to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, AustraLearn sends 3,000 acceptance across annually to 35 universities. In 2007, AustraLearn launched sister organizations AsiaLearn, a provider of programs in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, and EuroLearn, now developing programs in acreage Europe and the United Kingdom.
For added information, appointment www.AustraLearn.org, www.AsiaLearn.org or www.EuroLearn.org.
