Winter 2009-2010 Global TeachNet News Now Available
We are pleased to announce that the Winter 2009-2010 issue of Global TeachNet News is now available on our website. For direct access the PDF file of the newsletter, click here. You can read it online, or print out select pages. Enjoy the award-winning
style and content that you have come to rely on, just a click away!
Among the
features of this issue:
- K-8 corner: Ideas for the "We All" Posters
- 9-12 corner: Sometimes We Learn, Sometimes We Teach
- Book Review: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
- Lots of resources, learning and travel opportunities and
more!
I hope you enjoy this issue. Please send your letters or
materials for the next issue by February 15 to our editor, Susan Neyer, at susanneyer@astound.net. I wish you the very best for the holiday season and a Happy New Year.
Our next issue of GlobalEdNews will be on January 7, 2010.
Peace,
Anne Baker
Vice President, NPCA
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EdSteps: A Call for Work Demonstrating Global Competency
You are invited to participate in an exciting new initiative
to support the high quality teaching and assessment of college and
career-readiness skills in schools. EdSteps
is collecting samples of work as part of a ground breaking effort to assess
student performance using real examples of work done by students and
professionals from across the nation and throughout the world. EdSteps seeks
work that demonstrates global competency:the knowledge, skills and
disposition to understand and act creatively on issues of global significance.
EdSteps will publish the work online to show examples of global competency at
various levels of expertise. Once the work is published, it will help teachers
strengthen instruction and better evaluate student work and provide examples
for students to help them strive for greater achievement. Please visit our
website www.edsteps.org for more
information and to start submitting work today.
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Curriculum Update from the Choices Program
South Africa's Struggle
December 16 is a significant date in South African history. From 1910 to 1994,
the day was a public holiday to commemorate the victory of trekboers over a
force of Zulus in the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Years later, the African
National Congress launched its armed wing-Mkhonto we Sizwe-on December
16, to use force to oppose the apartheid government. Since 1994, South Africans
have celebrated the country's reconciliation and unity on December 16, now
called the Day of Reconciliation.
Bring the rich history of South
Africa and the struggle against apartheid to
your students with the new edition of Freedom in Our Lifetime: South Africa's Struggle. The updated curriculum includes two new lessons in which students explore
South African history through primary source materials.
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Updated Call for Delegates from Global Youth Connect
GYC
Human Rights Delegations to Rwanda and Bosnia, Spring & Summer 2010 - New
Age Range and New Delegations to Rwanda
Global Youth Connect (GYC), a
non-profit international human rights organization, is now accepting
applications from young leaders for our upcoming Spring and Summer 2010
international human rights delegations to Bosnia
and Rwanda.
NOTE: In 2010, we are increasing the number of delegations to Rwanda due to
high interest in the program, and availability of the Program Director and
Partner Organizations. We are excited about the added benefit which will
come from more continuous work in Rwanda!
For
detailed information on the programs (some of them with new variations in
content -- such as an arts focus in Rwanda in August -- and age range), their
activities, costs, fundraising/financial aid, and application information,
please visit: www.globalyouthconnect.org/participate
or email contact@globalyouthconnect.org.
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Professional Development Opportunity from The Cloud Institute
The
Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
Advanced
Summer Institute: EfS Curriculum Design Studio
- What does it take to design curricula that
educates for a sustainable future for Pre-K-12?
- How can we align EfS Core Standards/Outcomes with
the ones our school/our State require?
- Can we see some exemplars of EfS units that
other teachers and schools have developed?
Our
Advanced Summer Institute is designed for faculty teams, curriculum supervisors
and their teams and individuals who are interested in addressing these and any
other questions you have about designing curriculum units that educate for
sustainability. For those schools that are ready for vertical and lateral
curriculum mapping and integration of EfS across the curriculum, time will be
set aside for "big picture planning" as well.
Date: July 26-30th, 2010 (July 25: Prerequisite Introduction to Sustainability
Workshop)
Location: New
York City
REGISTRATION: Early Bird Rate of $650 available until April 1st, 2010! REGISTER TODAY!
Introduction
to Sustainability Workshop: $100 REGISTER HERE
For more information,
please visit our website.
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