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Honoring Peace Corps' 50th Anniversary
 This back-to-school issue of GlobalEdNews corresponds with the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of Peace Corps, continuing through September 2011. This special occasion offers an extra incentive to talk about Peace Corps in classrooms and communities.
The lesson plan Commemorating 50 Years of Peace Corps is now available on our website. Thank you, Angene Wilson, for providing this resource with each quarterly issue of NPCA's WorldView magazine. As for all WorldView lesson plans, the articles around which the lesson is built are available on the website in PDF format. (If you don't receive WorldView, consider joining the NPCA.)
If you will be in the Washington, DC area September 22-25, please join us in the commemorations (and be sure to say hello)! Learn more, see the full calendar of events and register to participate at http://bit.ly/PeaceCorpsSeptember2011
Peace,
Anne Baker
Vice President
National Peace Corps Association
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Fall 2011 Global Education Newsletter to Focus on Food
Our fall Global Education newsletter will coincide with World Food Day, and global food security is a current issue. We welcome your lessons, ideas, and resources, etc. to deal with food issues (access, producing, food security, etc.) that tie in with other curriculum areas (math, science, literature, etc.). Please contact Susan Neyer, editor at susanneyer@astound.net.
Thank you! We look forward to hearing from you.
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Kids.gov video features Peace Corps
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival this summer featured three themes, one of which was the Peace Corps: 50 Years of Promoting World Peace and Friendship.
Kids.gov interviewed three Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) for a feature piece on "Celebrating 50 Years of the Peace Corps." This short video (less than three minutes) is a great introduction for kids not only to Peace Corps, but also to sustainable and appropriate technologies.
View the video on kids.gov or on YouTube.
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Promoting Global Citizenship
From the Stanley Foundation:
In its simplest interpretation, global citizenship means social participation in local versions of global problems or local efforts to alleviate global problems. The Stanley Foundation's founder, C. Maxwell Stanley, said that global citizenship "is some combination of beliefs, attitudes, and convictions concerning the policies and leadership of national governments regarding the management of global problems."
At the Stanley Foundation, our mission statement includes a call to global citizenship. We not only work with high-level policymakers, most of whom are working to resolve problems within that world community, but we also offer programming and resources to interested adults who consider themselves global citizens and, yes, even to children who are just curious to learn about what life is like for a peer in another part of the world.
Though the Stanley Foundation's work might be better known in Washington, DC, than in its home of Muscatine, Iowa, the foundation places importance on contributing to its local community. That is why this issue of Courier is devoted to activities conducted locally through its Community Partnerships programming. The foundation conducts activities in Muscatine that it sponsors nowhere else. We share this information in hopes that it might inspire readers to also Think Globally, Act Locally.
A quarterly publication, Courier provokes thought on world affairs by giving readers insight into issues driving foundation programming. The Summer 2011 topic is Promoting Global Citizenship.
>> Download the Summer 2011 Issue PDF (287 KB)
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Peace Corps' World Wise Schools Program
From World Wise Schools:
Help promote global education by connecting U.S. classrooms to the Peace Corps experience! Forward this flyer to teachers and education providers you know and encourage them use World Wise resources in their classrooms. Teachers can sign up for the Correspondence Match program to connect their classroom with a current Volunteer, invite a RPCV speaker through the Speakers Match program, or help students learn more about other countries and cultures through multimedia resources and lesson plans based on the Peace Corps Volunteer experiences. |
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iEARN Launches Innovative Online Course to Prepare Teacher Educators to Use and Teach with Web 2.0 Tools and Project-Based Learning
Interactive course open to faculty members worldwide - Offered in both English and Spanish through a partnership with the Organization of American States
From a press release:
The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN), a leader in online professional development for K-12 educators on how to integrate online global collaborative project-based learning into all curriculum areas, today announced the launch of an online course for university faculty members worldwide who are preparing tomorrow's teachers. The course, developed jointly by the OAS (Organization of American States) and iEARN-USA is for eight weeks and engages teacher educators around the world in interactive learning on how to integrate Web 2.0 tools and project-based learning into their university education courses.
During the 8-week online course, participants will interact on assignments that go beyond learning about Web 2.0 tools to actually receiving hands-on experience using them. A certificate will be presented jointly from the OAS and iEARN-USA. Registration is now open for the course that runs from October 3 - November 25, 2011.
A Spanish-language course is also available.
>> Additional information
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Final call for applications for short certificate courses - October-November 2011
From HREA:
HREA is issuing a final call for applications for the following short certificate courses, which will be offered in the third trimester of 2011 (September-November):
These short e-learning courses are six weeks in duration and involve approximately 40 hours of reading, interaction with participants and instructor on discussion boards, quizzes and "webinars" with invited guests.
There are also still a few places available in the following 11-week specialised e-learning courses:
Applications can be submitted online. For further information about each course please click on the course link above. The application deadline is 1 September 2011. For a listing of all upcoming courses, please visit www.hrea.org/courses
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SPEAKERS MATCH
Through the Peace Corps' Speakers Match program, elementary and secondary school teachers can enhance their students' learning through classroom presentations by returned Peace Corps Volunteers. Interested classroom teachers and returned Peace Corps Volunteers can enroll in the Peace Corps' Speakers Match program here.
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