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Fulbright Application and Program Cycle Pictorial
Direct Exchange Pictorial | Short Term Exchange Pictorial
Regular Direct Exchange Program for Teachers
1. Application to regular direct exchange program in the United States.On October 15 of each year, Fulbright Teacher Exchange applications are due using the online application or a mailed application.
2. Eligibility, interviews, and matching for the regular direct exchange program.
- U.S. applicant files are reviewed in October for eligibility requirements and assigned to a peer review interview site.
- Sixty-nine interview committees in different locations across the United States conduct interviews with eligible candidates during November and December.
- Overseas candidate files are sent in early January to the United States by Fulbright Commissions and Posts abroad.
- U.S. candidates who are recommended by the peer review committee are notified in January that they have passed the interview and are being considered for exchanges in the matching process. The matching process takes place between late January and early May. Candidates not recommended by the interview committees are also notified of their status in January.
- The applications of U.S. and international candidates who accept their proposed matched-exchange are reviewed by the presidentially-appointed Foreign Scholarship Board in May, just prior to Fulbright offices sending final selection documents to the new grantees. Applicants who have not been matched for the upcoming program cycle will be notified of this by a letter sent in June.
3. Summer classics seminars in Italy and Greece begin in June.
4. Preparation for the direct-exchange.
- Selected U.S. teachers and their principals/mentors are prepared for their exchange by Fulbright staff and alumni at a number of Spring Meeting sites around the United States.
- Selected international teachers are prepared in their home countries by Fulbright Commissions and Posts.
- International grantees to the U.S. from the concluding cycle are also debriefed at spring meetings and lend their expertise to new U.S. grantees preparing for their exchange.
5. Orientation in Washington, DC for U.S. and international Fulbright Exchange Teachers (August).Orientation includes special speakers, country teaching-in and living-in discussions, one-to-one partner discussions, regional meetings, etc.. U.S. grantees depart on their exchanges after Orientation.
6. Fall Regional Workshops in U.S.International grantees on exchange in the United States and their U.S. host principals or mentors meet in one of seven sites around the United States to discuss the exchange with Fulbright staff, alumni, and special guests, and have cultural outings and site visits to exemplary schools.
7. International Education Week.Usually third week of November, grantees are urged to do a project with their schools in the U.S. and abroad to promote international education.
8. Evaluation.
Teachers on exchange all over the world are requested by the program to submit an electronic evaluation and pictures by the end of their exchange (December if semester exchange or June if year-exchange).