Sacred
Heart Exchange Program
There are twenty-one Sacred Heart schools throughout the United States. The
high school students are offered the chance to spend either a quarter or
semester at one of the other schools. Students from the other schools are
also offered the chance to come to Villa. The exchange student stays with
a host family through the duration of her stay. The student must then consult
with the administration about the application process.
Find out more about
other U.S. Sacred Heart Schools
Foreign Exchange
Taiwan
Due to our working, curricular
relationship with our Sacred Heart School in Taiwan, we have
also had the opportunity to develop friendships with other
schools in Taipei, Taiwan. Villa Duchesne/Oak Hill students
along with students from Sacred Heart Girls High School in Taiwan,
Tatung
Municipal High School, and Zhong-lun Municipal High School
have collaborated together through Internet projects, e-mail,
secure
web-based workspaces, and video conferencing events. This "distance
learning" exchange has afforded us the chance to truly
live and share the Sacred Heart Goals and Criteria.
Our hope and desire is in building
bridges of understanding as our global partnership is facilitated
through
the use of the
Internet, breaking the barriers of time and space. It is through
these friendships that for the past two years our Director of
Instructional Technology has been invited to teach both technology
facilitation to teachers
and English
as a second language to students in Taiwan, and in the winter
of 2005 Villa Duchesne
hosted a small group of students and teachers from Taiwan.
The exchange has grown further
as Villa hosted a two-week summer camp during July, 2005 with
Villa Duchesne and Taiwan students. A Villa Duchesne student
trip to Taiwan has been experienced for three weeks in August
since 2005. These opportunities for exchange are considered stepping
stones, an expansion of a strong cross-cultural collaboration,
understanding language acquisition, and asks of us a generous
commitment for serious on-going formation and a broad critical
vision of the world. This exchange, like our strong Latin American
connection, offers an opportunity for students and teachers to
broaden their horizons, in living the Goals and Criteria, academically
and socially by sharing the life of students and teachers in
other parts of the world. The programs aspire to prepare students
for
living in the "global village" which is already their
de facto milieu.
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Host an exchange student from Taiwan
To
educate to live effectively in an ever-changing world
