Professor Stuart Carroll of the College of New Jersey will work at the Foreign Languages Department of the Faculty FPSC, SumDU. The foreign professor will teach English to the first-year students at Sumy State University within the programme "Virtual Educator" starting in October 2022.
The submission of application by SumDU, particularly from the Foreign Languages Department of the Faculty FPSC, to receive a virtual lecturer within the framework of the programme from the Public Relations Department of the US Embassy was successfully considered by the Head Office in Washington. It opened a new niche for the Faculty in the implementation vector towards internationalization, academic mobility, and integration into the world academic community.
On September 19, they held the first organizational meeting, the participants of which were the Foreign Languages Department of SumDU Nataliia Tatsenko, Vice Dean for International Relations of the Faculty FPSC Alla Krasulia, Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department Iryna Liashenko, as well as representatives of the Department of Public Relations of the US Embassy and Professor Stewart Carroll.
Our students will receive an invaluable authentic learning experience not only from a native speaker but also from an experienced lecturer who has spent significant time teaching undergraduate and graduate programmes in the United States, Venezuela, Israel, Bolivia, Kuwait, Taiwan, Egypt, Thailand, and Spain, teaching core disciplines for future teachers. Classes will be held online for four groups of students this semester. Moreover, Stuart Carroll's duties will include methodological seminars for lecturers of the Foreign Languages Department, where he will share their experience of the latest methods of teaching grammar and syntax, the use of visual aids in teaching, teaching reading, culture, and other areas in teaching foreign languages. Stewart Carroll has extensive scholarly experience in the publication of academic research and will be happy to advise Faculty on the writing and publication of research works.
For the Faculty FPSC, the possibility of international exchange in teaching is a significant rating bonus and a convincing proof of vectorial development even during today's challenging wartime. It surely attracts students not only from all corners of Ukraine but from many other countries and continents to our academic family.