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	<description>Why is SIT's the most successful MA in Teaching anywhere?</description>
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		<title>Student Sarah Robinson: Life&#8217;s Transitions and Transformations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working outside my home culture for a while.  I am back now, but feeling a little uneasy.  How do I know if I&#8217;m ready for graduate school?  Where can I find meaningful and engaging professional development?  Why should I come to SIT (and not a less expensive MA in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competency 3: Teachers and Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers need to enjoy teaching.  In this third in a series of 5 posts, teacher learning as practiced at SIT is viewed in terms of teachers and teaching.  Which of these attributes were demonstrated by the great teachers in your life?
Teachers have awareness of

the relationship between learning and teaching
their own assumptions about teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Ari Sukmana: &#8216;The Soul of SIT&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Fulbright scholar Ari Sukmana, an English teacher of rural Indonesians for 8 years, enlivened SIT classrooms with his sharp wit, inquisitive mind, and embracive spirit.  From the perspective of his MAT colleagues, he has fulfilled Senator J. William Fulbright&#8217;s intention to &#8220;foster leadership, learning, and empathy between cultures.&#8221;  In describing his learning this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference: Learning and Teaching Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To conclude each MA in Teaching (ESOL, ESL, Spanish, French), students convene a conference for language teachers.  In May, students presented their workshops, papers, and demonstrations as well as served on committees for the program, plenaries, keynote speakers, registration, technical support, and social events.  A list of the presentations and presenters follows.
Wow!  That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Intan Meutia: Willingness to Change</title>
		<link>http://matadmissions.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/student-intan-meutia-willingness-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cut Intan Meutia taught beginning students of English in Rhode Island for her internship.  Here she reflects on an important teaching attitude, willingness to change.  Selected by the Ford Foundation as a promising leader of exceptional merit, she will shortly return home and begin furthering greater economic and social justice in Indonesia.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brattleboro Reformer: &#8216;Go forward, dare greatly&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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 School For International Training graduates from left, Susan Magdalen Wood Bardasz, Amanda Marie Bohne, Daniela Cazacu, Papa Bouna Fall and Meghen Fitzgibbens applaud their keynote speaker during the commencement ceremony, Saturday in Brattleboro. (Kimberly Hatch/Reformer)

&#8216;Go forward, dare greatly&#8217;
by Chris Garofolo, Brattleboro Reformer
Monday, June 2
BRATTLEBORO - While the skies over the SIT Graduate Institute were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competency 2: Learners and Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 22:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers are curious about people and how they learn. In this second of of 5 posts, teacher learning as practiced at SIT outlines the teacher&#8217;s influence on learning and learners.  Demonstration of these competencies takes place throughout the course of the degree study.
Teachers have awareness of

the relationship between learning and teaching
their own assumptions about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Heesoo Park: Teaching and Learning Peace</title>
		<link>http://matadmissions.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/student-heesoo-park-teaching-and-learning-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heesoo Park taught English for 10 years to Korean undergraduate and graduate students.  Embracing the safety of her SIT classrooms, she transferred it to a teaching practice in Thailand for her internship.  As exceptionally good teachers do, she discovered parts of herself in the process of teaching, parts that exist in all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competency 1: Language and Culture</title>
		<link>http://matadmissions.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/competency-1-language-and-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teachers are interested in language and culture.
In this first in an occasional series of 5 posts, teacher learning as practiced at SIT is outlined regarding language and culture. The optimally effective teacher understands their own awareness, attitudes, knowledge, and skills.  Here is how that is expressed in the MA in Teaching (ESOL, Spanish, French).
Teachers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIT INTERLINK Fellowship Announced</title>
		<link>http://matadmissions.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/sit-interlink-fellowship-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has two parts.  The first part describes this new fellowship: a paid INTERLINK teaching position and the SIT MA in Teaching.    The second part guides your next steps should you qualify.
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The Fellowship
The fellowship is available beginning June 2008 and provides full employment and a master&#8217;s degree in teaching English [...]]]></description>
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