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Mongolian Teachers Taking Part in APTE
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Ulaanbaatar, April 19, 2023 /MONTSAME/. Asia-Pacific Teacher Exchange for Global Education (APTE) is a bilateral teacher exchange program between the Republic of Korea and Asia-Pacific partner countries, hosted by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and implemented by the Asia-Pacific Centre of Education. The Program is held under the auspices of UNESCO in cooperation with the Ministries of Education of the Participating Countries as local partners.
In 2023, six teachers from Mongolia and four teachers from South Korea are taking part in APTE.
Initiated in 2012 with two partners, Mongolia and the Philippines, this Program has expanded in the past decade, being implemented in seven Asia Pacific countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, and Thailand. During the Program, the teachers are dispatched to local schools in the partner country for three to four months, giving classes and participating in various educational activities.
The objectives of these exchanges and local activities are to stimulate global educational competencies for not only the exchange teachers but also the fellow teachers and students at the host schools, to enhance understanding and cooperation between the countries, to share educational experiences, and to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
APTE pursues three main goals. Specifically,
- to promote multicultural understanding and global communication skills through education exchange,
- to support teachers' competencies by providing exchange teachers a variety of opportunities such as training, workshop, education activities in local schools and communities, mutual exchanges, and implementation of projects to enhance their teaching competencies,
- to build a model of international cooperation with expertise in education.
