About Amity Institue

In 1962, Dr. Ernest and Emily Stowell of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, founded Amity Institute to meet the needs of American foreign language teachers and students for direct and personalized contact with world languages and cultures. They also sought to involve young people from abroad in American education, family and community life. Several decades later, Amity Institute has broadened into exchange programs that work toward achieving the mission of building international friendship and cultural understanding through teaching exchange. Since its inception, Amity programs have enabled thousands of people throughout the world to travel and enrich schools and communities as international educators.

Today the Cultural Exchange Program arranges educational assignments for international students or recent graduates who are preparing for a career in the educational field. The program provides them with the opportunity to share their language and culture with the school and community. In addition, participants learn and assist in an American classroom under the direct supervision of a certified teacher.

The Exchange Teacher Program arranges for certified, experienced educators from other countries to serve as temporary faculty at accredited primary and secondary schools in the U.S.

Cross-cultural interaction creates an effective, dynamic learning environment. In its Exchange Teacher Program, Amity Institute sponsors international teachers to teach in American schools and provides opportunities for global educators to share their knowledge with students, schools and communities.

The Cultural Exchange Program provides opportunities for international participants to share their native language and culture while assisting in foreign language classrooms under the guidance of a certified American teacher.