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Peace,
Anne Baker
Vice President, NPCA
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Professional Development Course from iEARN
Exciting
Ways to Meet Curriculum Standards and Bring the World into Your Classroom.
iEARN offers state and NEA accredited interactive online professional
development courses for K-12 educators in the US and around the
world. Each course is a step-by-step guide to integrating
collaborative project based learning into your teaching. Our
facilitators will guide you to create a plan for using iEARN projects that
meet your local/state/national standards in your classroom environment.
Early Registration is open for Spring 2010. Scholarships are available.
Only 15 US
spots are available per class so please register early.
For more information, visit www.iearn.org/professional/online.html.
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Educational Seminars Program from American Councils
On behalf
of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of
State, American Councils announces Educational Seminars (ES), a professional
development program for teachers and principals.
Educational
Seminars is accepting applications for travel grants to Argentina, Brazil,
Greece, India, Italy,
Jordan, Mexico, Thailand,
and Uruguay.
These grants allow U.S.
teachers and administrators to participate in work-shadow and observational
study programs of 2-8 weeks. Through ES,
participants learn about host countries' educational systems through
participation in thematic seminars, school visits, meetings with educational
leaders and organizations, and collaborative presentations. Through nation-wide competitions,
approximately 80 U.S.
teachers and principals are selected to participate in educational exchanges
across nine countries in three continents.
Additionally, ES coordinates 2-3 week reciprocal programs for
approximately 80 international teachers and principals in K-12 schools
throughout the U.S.
For more
information, visit www.americancouncils.org/es
or contact Tim Hair at thair@americancouncils.org.
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International Child Art Foundation's 4th Arts Olympiad
Posted by request:
4th
Arts Olympiad
You can
bring the benefits of the Arts Olympiad experience to 8- to 12-year-old
children anywhere on earth. A free global program, the Arts Olympiad
leads to the selection of winners from each U.S. state and territory and nearly
100 countries, who will be official delegates to the World Children's Festival
to be held on the National Mall in Washington, DC in June 2011. The Arts
Olympiad Lesson Plan nurtures children's creativity, develops their empathy,
and introduces them to the "artist-athlete" ideal of a creative mind and
healthy body: Mens sana
in corpore sano. Email the International Child Art Foundation at program@icaf.org
for your free copy and specify in which city and country you plan to organize
the Arts Olympiad.
Information on previous Arts Olympiads and festivals
is at www.icaf.org.
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Live Coverage of the Children's Climate Forum in Copenhagen
Students welcoming ideas for coverage
Danish secondary school students will produce daily reporting on the
activities of Children's Climate Forum (CCF) delegates in the run-up to the
COP15.The young journalists will cover 160 children from 44 developing and
industrialized countries who are presenting a set of recommendations to world
leaders at the COP15. Coverage will be online at www.childrensclimateforum.org.
Using tools such as Twitter(#ccf09), email (climate-tv@oerestadgym.dk),
and SMS (check the site), young people from around the world will be able to
watch the shows online and then send comments and questions to "Unite for
Climate TV." Suggestions can be e-mailed and are well-received.
The shows will be aired twice daily in one hour segments from November 30
through December 4. The shows will be locally televised and streamed online for global
viewers, and will be broadcast at 11:00 GMT/6:00 EST and 17:00 GMT/12:00 EST.
For further information, please contact:
Katie Mulloy, UNICEF Youth Section, e-mail: kmulloy@unicef.org
Petter Becker-Jostes, UNICEF Denmark, e-mail: PBJostes@unicef.dk
Kate Donovan, UNICEF Media, + 1 212 326 7452 e-mail: kdonovan@unicef.org
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