Teacher exchange: a Sri Lankan teacher a year in Britain, a British teacher a year here, arranged privately

A first step

Find one school in Britain, through a Sri Lankan teacher abroad or a twinning contact, whose head would host a Sri Lankan teacher for a year if their own teacher could come here. Write down what each side would pay: travel, housing and salary cover. Then ask a school here to agree to the same. Two heads who say yes in writing, and the cost sheet, are the proof.

Who pays first

A British school head who wants a teacher to gain experience abroad and will pay the costs of an exchange arranged for them.

What leaves today

Teachers who go abroad to gain experience often stay, when an exchange would bring the experience home after a year.

The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.

The test

Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?

The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.

In the book

• Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
  177,588 qualified, 45,000 placed

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