What are your goals for the Program? What would you like to learn and what would you like to teach?

Thank you to Rafia Valiyeva for submitting this post:  

The Youth Leadership Program with Azerbaijan is a Program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs section of the U.S. Department of State and administered by American Councils for International Education.

The goals of the Program are clear. They are focused on expanding relationship between U.S. and Azerbaijani students, educators and communities from different ethnic, religious, and social groups and strengthening ties between the two countries.

It is a great chance for both U.S. and Azerbaijani finalists of the Program to get to know one another, develop their leadership skills, respect for diversity and sense of civic responsibility, involve them in community service.

Do you know the acronym
SMART Goals?
Read more about it at
http://www.projectsmart.co.uk/smart-goals.html  

The participants will have lots of things to learn from one another and teach one another as well. Even now the students are active on Facebook sharing pictures and ideas on different topics. U.S. participants have seen so many pictures of historical places of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani participants are eager to visit Washington and Arizona. They want to know more about the educational system of the U.S. They would like to present rich and ancient culture of Azerbaijan.

I hope their friendship and good relations will be long lasting and the two countries will benefit from this exchange program a lot. 

 What are your personal goals for the Program?

What do you hope to learn from the other participants in Azerbaijan and the U.S. and what do you hope to teach the people that you meet?