Information for Principals and Teachers

VICTORIAN YOUNG LEADERS TO INDONESIA PROGRAM

AUSTRALIA

GLOBAL LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT

Live, Learn, Explore

Getting involved in the 2020 Victorian Young Leaders to Indonesia pilot programThe Victorian Young Leaders to Indonesia (VYL Indonesia) pilot program will provide a once-in-a-lifetime, up to six-week overseas immersion for 40 year 9 students and accompanying teachers in 2020.

The program aims to develop a deeper understanding of Indonesia, its people and its culture whilst building participants’ Indonesian language, intercultural capability and student leadership skills.

The program is a life-changing opportunity for students and teachers to live and attend school in Indonesia, visit local attractions and sights, and form lifelong friendships with their Indonesian peers. The program combines language and cultural learning with personal development and leadership skills.

The program contributes to making Victoria the Education State by equipping all students, regardless of their background or circumstance, with the personal and practical skills to live the lives they want to live, and get the jobs they need.

This exciting new initiative is based on the award-winning Victorian Young Leaders to China which has enabled over 1500 students and 150 teachers to live, learn and explore in China.

Live, Learn, Explore Indonesia

PROGRAM OPTIONS AND KEY DATES

APPLICATION TYPE

School application

PROGRAM DURATION

Up to 6 weeks in Indonesia

TRAVEL DATES August - September 2020 / end of term 3, 2020

KEY DATES Applications for 2020 are now open and will close 5pm Friday 21 February 2020. Successful schools will be notified mid-term 1

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: vyl.indonesia@edumail.vic.gov.au

Benefits for studentsThe VYL Indonesia pilot program is a life-changing overseas immersion experience in which students combine language and cultural learning with accelerated personal and leadership development.

Students will return with a heightened understanding of contemporary Indonesia, its culture and history, and its educational and political landscape. Students will also return with an increased confidence and have developed a broader, international perspective on their future careers.

Benefits for teachersThe VYL Indonesia pilot program also offers significant benefits to teachers, including:

• increased critical and analytical approaches to professional practice

• enhanced knowledge about teaching and learning in a school overseas

• new knowledge and skills for international people-to-people engagement

• improved capacity to build international partnerships

• new insights about and understanding of the social and cultural diversity of Indonesia

• increased knowledge and intercultural understanding

• a desire for further personal and professional learning.

Benefits for schoolsThe program offers unique benefits to schools, including:

• significantly strengthening Indonesian langauge teaching

• an improved ability to embrace diversity in partnership with the broader local community

• building pride and confidence in schools within the community

• providing students and teachers with a lived experience of global learning and engagement

• offering the opportunity to exchange and learn from an Indonesian school.

Live, Learn, Explore Indonesia

CostsThe VYL Indonesia pilot program is funded through a co-contribution model, with parents contributing $3,000 per student and the Department funding the balance of the core program costs*. To reduce the effect of disadvantage, over a third of places will be fully-funded by the Department for students whose parent / guardian holds a current healthcare or pensioner concession card naming the student.

The Department will fund core program costs for the accompanying teachers. Schools will fund teacher replacement costs and contingency funds for medical or daily expenses in-country.

Any incidental costs (e.g. passports, token gifts and spending money) are the responsibility of the participating students their parents /guardians and teachers.

*Core program costs include:

• pre-departure and post-program phases

• travel arrangements, including return airfares, visas and insurance

• accommodation, meals, activities and excursions in Indonesia

• student uniform and curriculum materials.

Schools are responsible for collecting the $3,000 co-contribution from parents / students, to be paid to the Department (or their representative) for program delivery.

How to apply Application forms are available online and must be submitted via emai to: vyl.indonesia@edumail.vic.gov.au

For more information and to apply, see: Victorian Young Leaders to Indonesia Program.

Promotional MaterialPromotional marketing material will be shortly made available to help you promote the program to your school community.

For more information, email: vyl.indonesia@edumail.vic.gov.au

THE PROGRAM IS A LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO

LIVE AND ATTEND SCHOOL IN INDONESIA, VISIT LOCAL

ATTRACTIONS AND SIGHTS, AND FORM LIFELONG FRIENDSHIPS

WITH THEIR INDONESIAN PEERS.

Department of Education and TrainingInternational Education Division80 Collins St, Melbourne 3000www.study.vic.gov.auvyl.indonesia@edumail.vic.gov.au