This week's postings: 1. China and Pakistan Profiles added to Kids Around the World website! 2. 2006 SPICE Catalog: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education 3. New Oxfam curriculum for Global Citizenship 4. Travel to the developing world with NY Times journalist Nick Kristof 5. University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies Teacher Summer Institutes ***Special Note to subscribers: Tomorrow, March 31, is the last chance to sign up for NPCA’s Summer Travel Program for educators to Indonesia. Please visit our website at http://www.peacecorpsconnect.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=205 for more details and to apply. Ellen Frierson Global TeachNet National Peace Corps Association http://www.globalteachnet.org -------------------------------------------- 1. China and Pakistan Profiles added to Kids Around the World website! Kids Around the World is an educational website developed by the National Peace Corps Association that introduces elementary-age students to the lives of children all around the world. We’ve just added child profiles from two new countries, China and Pakistan. New material includes: * An interview with Miraal, a ten-year-old living in Islamabad, Pakistan. Miraal’s profile includes a transcript and an audio recording of her interview, and photographs of her and her family. Miraal’s recorded interview is especially appealing to younger students! *Interviews with and photographs of five middle school students in China who have written in English about their everyday lives, their families, their school and what they do for fun *Pages of links to additional information about the two countries: history, maps, photographs, news and current events, and activities for kids (including Pakistani pop music, online cricket, and Chinese crafts)! We hope you and your students enjoy meeting the kids on Kids Around the World! If you or someone you know will be traveling to a developing country soon, and would like to find out about doing an interview with a child for Kids Around the World, contact Ellen Frierson at mailto:teachnet@rpcv.org, or visit http://www.katw.org and click on “Get Involved” fofull instructions. -------------------------------------------- 2. 2006 SPICE Catalog: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education Posted by request: The Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) helps to build an informed public by publishing supplementary curriculum materials on international issues and their historical and cultural underpinnings. Recent materials featured in the 2006 catalog include units on Afghanistan, China’s Cultural Revolution, war tribunals, tea, and Japanese art. Visit SPICE’s website for more detailed information about current curricular offerings, professional development opportunities, and information about a course for high school students called the Reischauer Scholars Program, co-organized with the United States-Japan Foundation. To see the catalog visit http://spice.stanford.edu ------------------------------------------- 3. New Oxfam curriculum for Global Citizenship >From the Global Human Rights Education listserv: "Education for Global Citizenship: A Guide for Schools" is a free booklet for teachers that introduces the key elements of Oxfam's curriculum for Global Citizenship (knowledge, skills, and values), as well as providing case studies outlining best practice in the classroom, examples of appropriate teaching approaches, and resources for further reading. Developed in partnership with teachers and other educationalists, this curriculum builds on existing good practice and recommends the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to which young people are entitled to enable them to develop as Global Citizens. It outlines the importance of Education for Global Citizenship (E4GC) for pupils growing up in the 21st century, and clearly sets out how teachers can incorporate E4GC in their teaching and across their school. It’s a highly practical booklet, providing teachers with: - activities to explore what E4GC means with colleagues; - case studies of schools that have integrated E4GC across their curriculum and ethos, and the benefits this has brought to their pupils; - a number of E4GC activities that can be adapted for use in many curriculum areas, with a wide range of age groups and ability levels; - a resources list, including where to find more information about E4GC. You can request your free copy by contacting Oxfam. Alternatively, download a pdf of the Guide by visiting: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/teachers/globciti -------------------------------------------- 4. Travel to the developing world with NY Times journalist Nick Kristof >From the Chicago Area Peace Corps Association listserv: Are you a student over the age of 18 at an American college? Are you open to a potentially life-transforming experience? Here's your once-in-a-lifetime chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip with Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Kristof, Op-Ed and TimesSelect columnist. You won't just be Nick's traveling companion - you'll also bring a fresh perspective to his reporting on the developing world. "Over the next month, I'll be holding a contest to find a university student to accompany me on a reporting trip to the developing world. I'm not sure where yet, and that will depend partly on what's in the news at the time. But to give you a sense of the kind of travel I'm thinking of, the possibilities include a jaunt through rural Burundi and Rwanda in central Africa, or an odyssey from the coast of Cameroon inland to the heart of the Central African Republic ..." Read the rest of Nick's letter and see official rules and prize details by visiting http://iw.rtm.com/nytimesNickKristof/ and clicking at the links at the bottom of the page. Application deadline is April 20. -------------------------------------------- 5. University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies Teacher Summer Institutes Posted by request: To prepare our students for global citizenship in the 21st Century, the Institute for Global Studies and the European Studies Consortium at the University of Minnesota are working to strengthen international studies in K-16 education. The Teacher Summer Institutes combine lectures by University of Minnesota faculty and guest speakers, small group discussions, course readings, and teaching resources to explore international issues and learn strategies for integrating global topics into existing curriculum. Registration is $50, which includes University faculty instruction, guest speakers, a continental breakfast, teaching material, and CEU's. Teachers can register for optional graduate credits. The Teaching Genocide and Human Rights course is a two credit course. $125-$200 scholarships will be given to all educators and free on campus housing is available! Call 612-624-7346 or visit http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/outreach.htm for more information. Courses include: Teaching Ethnic Studies through a Global Perspective June 26-30, 2006; 9:00-4:00 pm Global Politics July 5-7, 2006; 9:00-4:00 pm Crossing Borders: Immigration in the New Europe July 10-14, 2006; 9:00-4:00 pm Teaching Genocide and Human Rights (2 credit course) July 17-21, 2006; 9:00-4:00 pm _______________________________________________ Please note: The materials and information included in this listserv are provided as a service to you and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by Global TeachNet or the National Peace Corps Association. We encourage subscribers to pass the information along to colleagues and other interested parties. Please credit this listserv as the source and include subscription information. 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