New WorldView Lesson Plan: Compassion and Kindness
 The Summer 2010 issue of WorldView magazine is now out, featuring how the Peace Corps community is "bringing the experience home." Using the article "Letter from Lesotho: Compassion in Action" by Kaye Thompson along with online media, Angene Wilson challenges students to practice two time-honored virtues that are essential to the proliferation of a more peaceful world. The lesson, Compassion and Kindness, explores how these virtues are defined across cultures, and encourages students to consider how to live them out in their daily lives.
Click here to download the lesson plan and the corresponding article.
A subscription to WorldView magazine is included with a membership in the National Peace Corps Association. Click here to learn more about the magazine or here to subscribe. You will find previous lesson plans and discussion guides for each issue of the magazine here. Peace, Anne Baker
Vice President, NPCA
PS - As you may have noticed above, NPCA has a brand new look! Check out our new website to explore all the new features, and stay tuned for our newly revamped NPCA Education page! Also, are you an RPCV who served in the 2000s? Be a voice for quality universal basic education. Contact jonathan@peacecorpsconnect.org to find out how you can help. |
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Help EdSteps to Assess Global Competence
EdSteps (www.edsteps.org), is a Web-based resource being developed from the ground up that will give teachers, students, and parents a way to compare a student's work with that of other students. Using student work samples that are reviewed by people like you and then placed along a continuum (a gradual progression), EdSteps will illustrate how an individual student can improve.
The continuum's success requires thousands of submissions that represent work at every ability level. You can submit student work (which qualifies you immediately for a drawing for a $150 gift card), and you can sign up to review work. Right now EdSteps is accepting work in two areas: Writing and Global Competence. Work samples are welcome from students of all ages and professionals, from the United States and around the world. You can learn more about EdSteps and sign up to participate at www.edsteps.org. You also can contact info@edsteps.org for more information. |
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Save the date: ICAF World Children's Festival June 17-19, 2011
Posted by Request:
The World
Children's Festival provides children a transformational experience that
becomes a touchstone throughout their lives.
Free and
open to the public, the festival attracts more than 10,000 attendees in
addition to the nearly 1,000 Arts Olympiad winners and their families.
Nearly 200
artists, educators, engineers, entrepreneurs, Olympians, scientists, and
technologists host free workshops and activities that show the power of STEAMS
education (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics, and sport) and
make the festival a transformative experience for all attendees.
ICAF's
Peace through Art approach in The Lancet medical journal provides the
educational framework for the development of empathy at the 3-day festival:
Health +
Environment Day (June
17) - instruction
is informational, spotlighting concerns that children share in common Creativity
+ Imagination Day (June
18) - learning is
participatory, invoking children's inherent talents and potential Peace +
Leadership Day (June
19) - training is
inspirational, encouraging lifelong creativity, nonviolence and health
For
more information about the 2011 World Children's Festival, visit the International Child Art Foundation website.
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iEARN 2010 Natural Disaster Youth Summit
2010 NATURAL DISASTER YOUTH SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN TURKEY, AUGUST 23-27, 2010.
The summit was started by the JEARN (iEARN-Japan) team, and has been held since 2005. The participation of 300 students (150 students from abroad and 150 students from Turkey) has been planned for this year.
Visit the NDYS 2010 Conference Website, or learn more about the year-round Natural Disaster Youth Summit Project. |
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SPEAKERS MATCH
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Corps' Speakers Match program, elementary and secondary school teachers can
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Peace Corps Volunteers. Interested classroom teachers and returned
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GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
The goal of Global Connections is to improve the "global literacy" of U.S. high school students and prepare them for the global services economy of the 21st century. For more information about this program, visit our website. |
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