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Mexican Visiting Teacher Exchange Program
The Visiting Mexican Teachers Program, or Programa Visitante, is a mutually beneficial program with a partnership between the Oregon Department of Education and the Ministry of Education in Mexico (SEP) in which highly qualified teachers from Mexico come to Oregon and teach in high-need, dual-language programs. The Oregon Department of Education works closely with the Consulate of Mexico in order to recruit and retain teachers from Mexico. Visiting teachers obtain a leave of absence through the Secretary of Education in Mexico for their current teaching positions, licensure through TSPC in Oregon, and work under a J-1 visa for 3-5 years. While in Oregon, they live and teach in communities with both native Spanish-speaking students and students learning Spanish in a two-way immersion program. They provide high-quality, native Spanish-speaking instruction while also teaching students about their culture, customs and traditions of Mexico. In addition, they are role models to students wanting to make connections to their own culture or who want to learn about other cultures. When the teacher’s service is over, they return to Mexico as teacher leaders and help implement many of the language learning strategies and best practices they gleaned from working and living in the United States. To learn more about this program, visit
Mexico Ministry of Education.
For more information around this program, contact the English Learner Outcomes Program at
ode.elop@ode.oregon.gov
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Spanish Visiting Teacher Exchange Program
The Visiting Teachers from Spain Program is an international cooperation initiative between the education authorities of Spain and the United States. The program is promoted by the Education Office of the Embassy of Spain in collaboration with Departments of Education and school districts in more than 30 states. More than 10,000 Spanish Visiting Teachers have participated in this program over the last 35 years, and around 500 teachers are hired annually. It is a part of the
BridgeUSA initiative of the U.S. Department of State. This cultural exchange program between Spain and the United States and Canada enables school districts, private and charter schools, to hire highly qualified Spanish speakers to teach at K-12 level. They work on a J-1 visa for 3 to 5 years.
While in Oregon, visiting teachers live and teach in communities with both native Spanish-speaking students and students learning Spanish in a two-way immersion program. Teachers work in schools teaching the Spanish language and/or other subjects of the curriculum in Spanish, according to the different organizational and curricular models developed by the Oregon Department of Education and school districts in order to satisfy the demands and needs of the school population. They provide high-quality, native Spanish-speaking instruction in both dual language and immersion programs while also teaching students about their culture, customs and traditions of Spain. At the end of the program, teachers return to Spain to complete their cultural exchange by sharing the strategies and best practices they acquired from working and living in the United States. To learn more about this program, please visit
visiting professorship in the United States and Canada.
For more information around this program, please contact the English Learner Outcomes Program at
ode.elop@ode.oregon.gov or Luis Suarez de Benito at asesor.wa.st@educacion.gob.es.
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For more information about the Visiting Teacher Exchange Programs, please contact the EL Outcomes Program at
ode.elop@oregon.ode.gov.