ENGLISH — CATALYST//CATALIZADOR. Have 4 Hours a Month? Animalearn Needs You!: American Anti-Vivisection Society Opportunity. Getting the “green light” for student travel. Share This Page There are numerous benefits to group travel excursions, especially for students: They benefit from exposure to locations, histories, cultures, and people they might not otherwise experience. Plenty of planning and preparation needs to take place prior to student travel. Given the importance educational institutions place on learning, these trips typically aren’t planned at the last minute. Most require teachers (and group leaders) to get approval from various levels of administrative leadership before leaving; depending on the district, school board approval might also be needed.
At the Waukee Community School District in Waukee, Iowa, the first step for any teacher who wants to lead a student trip is completion of a form that asks questions about the proposed trip’s educational objectives, costs, timing, and connection to the curriculum. What could delay the process? Mark Yontz, a freelance writer from Urbandale, Iowa, wrote the full-length version of this article. The Global Agora (Engage into Democracy) Resource Guide for The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
Qatar Foundation International. Share Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S. -based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). Its mission is dedicated to connecting cultures and advancing global citizenship through education. QFI is a not-for-profit organization in Washington, D.C., focused on grant-giving and programmatic activities that promote education as a force that facilitates collaboration across geographical, social and cultural boundaries.
Spring Traditions Around the World. I am part of a world-side, diverse group of bloggers called Multicultural Kid Bloggers who write about their experiences in multicultural parenting. Every month we host a different blogging carnival, which focuses on a relevant topic, and includes perspectives from (literally) around the world. For example, we discussed teaching heritage to your children, and talked about winter traditions around the world, and the importance of family traditions. Join us on facebook, Twitter or pinterest to meet other multicultural, globally-minded parents. This month’s carnival is all about our Spring traditions. Olga is a Polish mama living in The Netherlands with her German husband. Kim lives in the United States and writes The Educators’ Spin On It. Ute is German, but is currently living in The Netherlands with her family. Jody currently lives in Malawi on a wildlife reserve (you would love her blog Mud Hut Mama!).
Giselle is a global educator with a lot of international teaching experience. Sponsorship: A safeguard against early marriage of girls | World Vision News. Habtam, 16, lives about 400 miles northeast of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. Early marriage is widespread in this region, despite the government’s efforts to stop it. Local residents often agree to marry off their children before they’re even born. Sadly, Habtam’s parents were among them. So were the parents of the boy to whom she was given for underage marriage. Habtam accepted her forced marriage at age 15. She had no other choice. “I said to my mom [that] I didn’t want to quit my school,” says Habtam. A determination to continue her studies Her to-be spouse, however, didn’t keep his word — not even for one day.
“I was so angry and maddened. But Habtam’s love for school didn’t allow her to resign to her husband’s idea that she become a housewife. “Learning that I was attending while he was out for farming, he first warned me not to do so again,” says Habtam. Physical and emotional abuse So her husband began to physically abuse her. How sponsorship can help Learn more. Jason Huber. Past Participant This Week's Question: What would you do with a $10,000 classroom grant? Watch the video above to find out how the finalist answered. The Finalist Teacher's Name: Jason Huber Grade: 7th-8th Subject Area (If Applicable): English School Name: Eastern University Academy Charter School City: Philadelphia School State: Teacher's Bio Jason Huber teaches seventh and eighth grade Communications at Eastern University Academy Charter School in Philadelphia.
Discussion. Pe' Sla: The Heart Of All That Is: Help Save the Lakota Heart Land! Pe' Sla is an area in the Black Hills of South Dakota (just west of Rapid City) that is considered by the Lakota people to be the Center and heart of everything that is. It is part of our creation story. It is a sacred place. We perform certain ceremonies at Pe' Sla which sustain the Lakota way of life and keep the universe in harmony.
This area is partly owned by the Reynolds family. They plan to auction off almost 2,000 acres on August 25, 2012 to the highest bidder. It is likely that the state of South Dakota will put a road directly through Pe' Sla and open up this sacred place for development. The seven bands of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Oyate (people) aka Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) have a collective effort to buy as much of Pe'Sla as we can at this auction (although we also believe that the land cannot be owned and that our sacred places were illegally taken by the United States). We are hoping to buy as much of the sacred sites as possible. Global Entrepreneurship Week. Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship!
Through events and activities, we celebrate the success of entrepreneurs and inspire more people to follow their passion and choose entrepreneurship as a career. From November 17 to 23, 2014, Canadians will come together to celebrate GEW Canada. For the sixth consecutive year, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is the official host of GEW in Canada, and we want you to get involved! Spread the word through social media, become a sponsor, attend an event in your community, or become a GEW Canada partner and host your own event or activity.
More on GEW: Global Entrepreneurship Weeek WebsiteGEW Global Overview Flyer“What is Global Entrepreneurship Week” VideoGEW Canada – I am an entrepreneur videoGEW Canada 2013GEW Canada 2012GEW Canada 2011GEW Canada 2010GEW Canada 2009.
21 Map Creation Tools for Students and Teachers. Yesterday, I published a review of MapFab which is a fabulous, free, and simple tool for creating maps online. Writing that post got me thinking about all of the other free map creation tools that I've reviewed over the years. Google Maps and Google Earth are my favorite tools for creating maps, but not every school allows teachers and students to download it. And creating Google Maps does require you to have a Google account which is an obstacle to use in some schools too. In the list below you will find some map creation tools that don't require registration.
And, of course, all of the tools on this list are free for teachers and students to use. Animaps is a service that was built for the purpose of allowing users to create animated Google Maps. The basics of creating maps in Animaps is very similar the process for creating maps in Google Maps. Tripline is a service designed to enable anyone to record a trip they've taken or to plan a trip itinerary. K-12 Global Art Exchange | OneWorld Classrooms. Program Overview Share student artwork, via regular mail, with schools from around the world! Then, optionally, travel electronically to the schools you have exchanged with and interact with students who have participated in the exchange. The K-12 Global Art Exchange is: an easy way to collaborate with K-12 classrooms around the world and develop related curriculum-based lessonsan authentic source for learning about global culturesaligned with Art, English Language Arts, Foreign Language and Social Studies curricula Download a flyer to print and distribute to teachers at your school or in your district!
How To Participate Step 1: Choose a participation level (see chart below) and REGISTER HERE. Step 2: Follow our specific participation guidelines. Step 3: Mail your students’ artwork via regular mail directly to OneWorld Classrooms (in Massachusetts, USA). Registration Registration is now open for the 2013-2014 K-12 Global Art Exchange! Participation Options and Fees Related Resources. Digiteen Project: Global Digital Citizenship Collaboration and Education - Home. People to People Ambassador Programs. CBBC Newsround - Home. United Nations Foundation | Global Good Challenge. Carolina Navigators.
Photo Story: Where are you from? | Intercultural Education in K-12 Classrooms. “I am from there, I am from here,but I am neither there nor here.I have two names which meet and part.I have two languages, but I have long forgottenwhich is the language of my dreams.” ― Mahmoud Darwish No matter where we are in the world people will always ask this question, where are you from?
What would your initial response be? I try to avoid this question at all costs when I first meet someone. I never know what to say. This Photo Story is geared towards students in Grade 7. Picture #1 – From Tal et-Turmus to Fawwar Photo #1 To begin, I want to introduce you to my grandfather, Ibrahim. Tal et-Turmus was a small village of about 750 people in what is now southern Israel. Where are your grandparents from? (Tal et-Turmus Wikipedia: (Fawwar refugee camp UNRWA: Picture #2 – Palestinian Refugees Photo #2 Picture #3 – Family Dinner Under The Grape Vines Photo #3 How big is your family? Picture #4 – The City Folk. Global Citizenship in a Changing World. Global Youth Action Network. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Article 1.
Article 2. Article 3. AboutUs. Global Citizen is a tool to amplify and unite a generation’s call for justice. It’s a place for you to learn and act, to bring an end to extreme poverty. Global Citizens know that a world that deprives 1.2 billion people of their basic rights and opportunities is unjust and unacceptable. We celebrate the efforts made to cut extreme poverty by half, but recognise more still needs to be done. We know that people living in extreme poverty are working hard themselves, and that we need to learn and take action to change the rules that trap them in broken systems. We use Global Citizen to learn more about issues, so we can take effective action for change and find opportunities to support campaigns and organisations creating sustainable change. Right now Global Citizen is in launch phase, but in coming weeks and months it will feature new issues, with the latest information and action opportunities, so you can take effective action for change.
What is a Global Citizen? Who's behind it? GCN Around the World | Global Citizens Network. How Children Learn: Portraits of Classrooms Around the World. By Maria Popova A revealing lens on a system-phenomenon both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of diversity. Since 2004, Julian Germain has been capturing the inner lives of schools around the world, from England to Nigeria to Qatar, in his large-scale photographs of schoolchildren in class. Classroom Portraits (public library) is part Where Children Sleep, part Bureaucratics, part What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, part something else entirely — a poignant lens on a system-phenomenon that is both global in reach and strikingly local in degree of peculiarity, revealed through more than 450 portraits of schoolchildren from 20 countries. Jessore, Bangladesh. Year 10, English.
Image courtesy Julian Germain Brazil, Belo Horizonte, Series 6, Mathematics USA, St Louis, Grade 4 & 5, Geography Nigeria, Kano, Ooron Dutse, Senior Islamic Secondary Level 2, Social Studies Taiwan, Ruei Fang Township, Kindergarten, Art St. England, Seaham, Reception and Year 1, Structured Play. Flat Classroom Project. Commit2Act - Home. YouthMovements - Welcome! TakingITGlobal - Inspire. Inform. Involve. iEARN | Learning with the world, not just about it ... The Global Agora (Engage into Democracy) Volunteer Abroad with the International Volunteering Organization Projects Abroad.
Where it All Started In the early 1990s, some students wanted a break from study - a "gap year," although the term wasn't yet in common use. They approached their geography professor about traveling and working in Eastern Europe. The professor, Dr. Peter Slowe, had difficulty finding any opportunities for this kind of travel combined with work experience, so he set about arranging for his students to go and teach English in Romania where he knew some fellow academics. This was how Projects Abroad began in 1992. Until 1997, Projects Abroad was a small organization with just two part time staff sending university students to teach English in Eastern Europe.
Projects Abroad Today Now after over 20 years, we have offices around the world, including two North American offices located in New York City and Toronto. Projects Abroad volunteers are aged from 16 to 75! Projects Abroad in the Global Economy We help to create local employment wherever we send volunteers. Volunteer Projects in Central & South America. The Tobacco land cycling - Viaja por Cuba.com. Duration: 8 days/7 nights Passenger minimun: 6 guests Next Departures: January 07 and February 25, 2013 Itinerary Day 1. Havana Arrival to Jose Marti International Airport in Havana Transfer to a 3 Star hotel.
Lodging. Welcome Dinner Day 2. Breakfast and check out. Day 3. Breakfast and check out. Day 4. Breakfast and check out. Day 5. Breakfast and check out. Day 6. Breakfast. Day 7. Breakfast and check out. Day 8. Breakfast and check out. Included * Welcome in the Havana Airport * Transfers airport-hotel-airport * Accommodations * Breakfast buffet * Lunch and Diner mentioned in the program * Visit to all tourist places mentioned * Bus Asistence during all the program * Travel guide Not Included: International flight to Cuba Bicycles Tips Services not mentioned Importante Notes: What Should Global PBL Look Like? The Global Classroom Project: Building Commmunity. Global Citizen. Global Community. Australian Curriculum.