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NPCA Global Education Newsletter - Spring 2013
- 9-12 Corner: Diversity and Discrimination
- Articles about teaching and education in Morocco, Nepal and Cameroon
- Developing Global Citizens: A Study of IB Teachers in 43 Nations
- Why I Support NPCA and special thanks to our 2012 donors
- Global Education Resources, Professional Development Opportunities and more!
I hope you enjoy this issue and that you will let us know how you are using these and other resources in classrooms and communities. Please send your letters or materials for the next issue by May 10 to Susan Neyer, editor, at susanneyer@astound.net. The summer issue is when we feature books for your summer reading pleasure. Read anything interesting lately? Send along a full review or just a paragraph or two!
Peace,
Anne Baker Vice President National Peace Corps Association
ps - We rely on you, our readers, for support of this quarterly global education resource, as well as for our online collection of resources for bringing global issues into classrooms and communities. Please consider making a making a donation to help us continue to "bring the world back home." |
Reviewers Needed
We occasionally receive books or curriculum in the office that authors would like reviewed in our Global Education newsletter, so we are seeking reviewers. In exchange for writing a review, you get to keep the materials! Interested? Send an email to globaled@peacecorpsconnect.org with your name, address, and a description of the grade level(s), subject area(s), and /or types of materials you would be interested in (e.g., books, curricula, online materials). We'll follow up by email with a description if there is a match with what we have and, if so, send it along to you! Thank you! |
 Come to Peace Corps Connect - Boston!
We invite you all to Boston, Massachusetts on the weekend of June 28-29, 2013 for an event that will encourage you to continue "bringing the world back home" while visiting with friends and having fun. NPCA's second annual gathering, Peace Corps Connect - Boston, will take place June 28-29 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA. Key elements of this event will be highly interactive and incorporate career networking and knowledge-sharing. By bringing our collective experiences together can support each other and help to solve important development challenges. Visit our website to learn more and to register.
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New Curriculum Addresses a Pressing Global Issue: The Basic Education Crisis
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The Peace Corps Nigeria Alumni Foundation (PCNAF) is committed to serving as a catalyst for enhancing public awareness in the U.S. about the critical need to expand access to quality education for more than 61 million primary school-age children and 71 million adolescents in developing countries that are not in school. A key component of PCNAF's mission is providing support to teachers that want to use the basic education crisis as a vehicle for helping students understand what global interdependence really means, and instill in them a sense of global responsibility. A high school social studies teacher collaborated with PCNAF to develop and test an instructional unit focusing on the basic education crisis and how it impacts our lives here in America. The new curriculum is designed to help students examine some of the economic, political and social ties that bind the U.S. to the Third World. The unit is now available online for other teachers to use. To view the unit, visit the Teacher's Corner on PCNAF's website and select the Featured Lesson. For more information, please contact Albert Hannans at: ahannans@pcnaf.org
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Bringing the World into the Classroom: New Strategies for Internationalizing Undergraduate Curricula
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Please join the Levin Institute on May 20, 2013 to share best practices and promote dialogue about curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities on themes of global workforce preparedness, globalization and global citizenship. The conference will highlight the achievements of the SUNY Global Workforce Project and new and related programs that strengthen campus internationalization. To learn more about the Bringing the World into the Classroom: New Strategies for Internationalizing Undergraduate Curricula conference, please visit: http://www.levin.suny.edu/gwpconference.cfm.
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Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators
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The Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators, the curriculum guide of the Global Peacebuilding Center, U.S. Institute of Peace, is now available in English, Spanish, French and Arabic and on handy thumb-drives that make it much more portable! It's also online in those new languages at: www.buildingpeace.org/toolkit The Toolkit was developed by and for educators, and the translations of the content into new languages will--we hope--enable a broader network of teachers to bring peacebuilding into classrooms around the world.
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"Global Learning" is Asia Society's blog featured on the Education Week website. It explores how school systems at home and abroad are keeping pace with a changing world. Featuring education news analysis and commentary on the latest happenings in the world of global competence, the blog covers a wide range of topics including:
- Global teacher resources, opportunities, and professional development
- World languages
- International best practices and how we can adapt them
- International knowledge and skills
- Education policy
- Digital learning and online international exchanges
- Global expanded learning
- A career ready global workforce
- Much more!
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iEARN International Conference and Youth Summit
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The 20th Annual iEARN International Conference and 17th Annual Youth Summit 2013 will be held in Doha - Qatar from July 1st to July 6th, 2013. Register here. All global educators are welcome! We invite you to join hundreds of educators, students, administrators and partner organizations who come together annually from 50-70 countries at the iEARN Conference and Youth Summit to share how they are using technology to build global understanding and enhance teaching and learning! Make global connections, share best practices in online collaborative project-based learning. Have a project to share? The theme of the conference will focus on the use of technologies in education to reach out, learn and build a better world together. The conference will cover topics such as environment, cultural diversity and the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the classroom. Educators and students will be able to attend plenary sessions, deliver or attend a variety of workshops to further develop their knowledge and skills, share experiences, discover innovative ways to use ICTs, and connect with their peers across the world.
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Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Washington, DC, the National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is the nation's leading 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization connecting and championing Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps community. It provides service and education opportunities that build on the Peace Corps experience, and is also the longest-standing advocate for an independent and robust Peace Corps. To become a member or get more information, visit www.peacecorpsconnect.org. |
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