Teachers' Forum

looking for online part-time teacher

Gordon — Thur, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:16 GMT

I am from China, we are looking for some part-time teachers, we will pay 15 dollars/hour, if you are interested in that, you can contact us.
our requirment:
1.Native speakers from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
2.send your resume to us, including name, nationality, country of residence now?email, skype or msn?teaching experience, degrees and certificates. Pls paste your recent photo.

email: speakkey@hotmail.com
msn: speakkey@hotmail.com
Skype: speakkey

Read about a University of North Carolina at Greensboro course and deliberative forum

Patty Dineen — Thur, 10 Sep 2009 16:02:13 GMT

Following is information (including contact info) about a University of North Carolina at Greensboro course - "PSC 300: Civic Engagement and Political Participation" that includes the planning, implementing, moderating, and evaluating of a National Issues Forums (NIF) deliberative forum.

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When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6-9:30 p.m.
Where: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Contact: UNCG-PSC 300 (Fall 2009), Phone: 336-256-8531 (Dr. Darlene Rodriguez, faculty), E-mail: dxrodrig@uncg.edu

University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) PSC 300: Civic Engagement and Political Participation

This course focuses on two major themes within the literature on American public life, civic engagement and political participation. Who participates in politics, how, why, and to what effectiveness? Why do social groups adopt particular political strategies and not others? What is the state of American civic engagement, and why should we care? We will approach these questions broadly, considering, for example, the role of voluntary organizations and civic groups in American political life; the factors that lead individuals to (or limit) participation in both electoral (e.g., voting, campaigning) and non-electoral (e.g., group acting, protest) activities; and the ways that these themes relate to concepts of citizenship, civil society, and democracy.

As part of the students' semester project, PSC 300 students will plan, implement, moderate, and evaluate a National Issues Forums (NIF) on the UNCG campus. PSC 300 students will use this opportunity to apply theories of civic engagement and community organizing by inviting the University community to a deliberative dialogue on Democracy's Challenge: Reclaiming the Public's Role.

Copies of the NIF materials are available:

For free via the Internet at: http://www.nifi.org/issue_books/guides.aspx?catID=14 or through the web link provided below
Download the issue book-in-brief: Democracy's Challenge, Reclaiming the Public's Role.pdf (193 k)

We will use the NIF process to discuss issues of civic engagement and political participation. We will conclude with a summary of where we agree and determine what actions we can take as a campus community to overcome democracy's challenges.

For information about how to arrive at the Weatherspoon Art Museum on the UNCG campus click here. You may park for free in the parking lot behind the building.

We look forward to hosting the first, of what we hope will be many more, National Issues Forums at UNCG! Thank you.

Read about surveying students for feedback about their experience using deliberation

Patty Dineen — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:19:59 GMT

You can read Folorunsho Moshood's description of his work with high school students in a project called Sowing the Seed of Deliberation (SSD) in Nigeria.

He has also included the questionnaire he used to seek feedback from students about their experience using deliberation and issue framing, and the report that he has written based on that feedback.

You can read the description of the SSD project and read the questionnaire and report at:
http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=14890&catID=24

Spanish resources??

maxmutante — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:35:06 GMT

I am looking for websites that have ELE Spanish resources that are less well known. Here is one that I found which is good, it's part of a Spanish school. Every week, they also post a article written by the teachers.

http://www.spanish-in-spain.es

If anyone know of some other interesting ones, Please let me know.

Thanks

Max

Oral English teacher are needed in China

Janehan — Thur, 30 Jul 2009 07:48:13 GMT

Firstly, thanks for your close attention and support!

The Native English Speaker Recruit Project (China District) is run by the International Education Volunteer Organization (China). It is authorized by the Chinese Education System to recruit foreign English teachers.

Our Aim:

Providing high quality oral English teachers for schools (especially for primary and secondary schools) to improve Chinese students English communication level.

Our Requirements:

Native speakers from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland

How to apply:

1). your resume. (State your full name, Country of residence now, E-mail add, Address, Date available for employment and How long do you plan to teach here: () Months, Do you have any teaching experience and how long and what kind of students did you teach?)

2). Copy of the first page of your passport.

3). Copy of your highest degree and teaching certificates, if any.

4). One recent color photo of yours.

Tel: +86 10 67527894

Fax: +86 10 67576849

Mobile: +8613693677612

MSN: Janehan0402@live.cn

SKYPE: janehan0402

Contact Person: Janehan

Oral English teacher are needed in China

Janehan — Thur, 23 Jul 2009 03:41:16 GMT

Oral English teacher are needed in China

Firstly, thanks for your close attention and support!

Our Aim:

Providing high quality oral English teachers for schools (especially for primary and secondary schools) to improve Chinese students English communication level.

Our Requirements:

Native speakers from USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland

How to apply:

2). Copy of the first page of your passport.

3). Copy of your highest degree and teaching certificates, if any.

4). One recent color photo of yours.

Tel: +86 10 67527894

Fax: +86 10 67576849

Mobile: +8613693677612

MSN: Janehan0402@live.cn

SKYPE: janehan0402

Contact Person: Janehan

Deliberative issues programming at a summer camp for military kids

Patty Dineen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:03:59 GMT

(In the information below, Barbara Brown describes a summer camp for military kids and some of the public issues deliberation and studies that will be included in the camp program.)

Operation Military Kids Teen Voice Camp
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

When: August 11-15, 2009, beginning 12:00 p.m. on August 11th and ending at 2:00 p.m. on August 15th
Where: SC FFA Center, 1069 FFA Circle Drive, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Contact: Barbara A. Brown, Phone: 803-968-0388, E-mail: babrwn@clemson.edu

Teen Voices Camp is a Speak Out for Military Kids event for youth ages 13-17. It includes all the activities expected at a residential summer camps such as swimming and high and low ropes, but also includes deliberative dialogue, six pillars of character, and humanitarian and human rights law experiences. Youth will participate in two National Issues Forums (NIF) - Democracy's Challenge: Reclaiming the Public's Role, and Americans' Role in the World: Building a More Secure Future as part of NIF in the Classroom: A High School Program on Deliberative Democracy curriculum.

The camp will also inlcude activities focusing on the six pillars of character, components of Character Counts. Additionally, on August 12th, the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, Speak Out for Military Kids youths will spend the day celebrating and learning about the creation of the Red Cross and International Humanitarian Law. International Human Rights Law; articles 12 and 13 of the Children's Rights Conventions, on youth participation will also be included.

Career as English Language Teaching in Pakistan

Habib — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:10:46 GMT

Hi every body
I am a career counsel and have also been teaching English language subject and am quite satisfied with my profession. What is the career prospect in this field is tremendous. As a Pakistani i would advise my fellow countrymen to make yourself master of this language because it is the key to success tody.
http://www.mycareer.edu.pk

Paper from Folorunsho Moshood - "Findings on the Use of National Issues Forums in the Classroom in the Last Three Years"

Patty Dineen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:57:09 GMT

For links to the entire report and the appendix go to

http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx?itemID=14738&catID=24 .

SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS ON THE USE OF NATIONAL ISSUES FORUMS IN THE CLASSROOM (NIFIC) IN THE LAST THREE YEARS

General Findings

Some of the educators using NIFIC are yet to understand the concept of a different kind of democracy and politics
Some of the educators are using NIFIC materials for debate
Most of the educators have not been trained on naming and framing issues
The motivating factors for educators are hope and belief in NIFIC
Connection with the communities not fully on the ground
Sustainability of NIFIC is difficult
The inaccessibility of the NCLB grant to aid NIFIC
The motivating factor for students is their desire for a different kind of politics
Other social activities in schools promote the use of NIFIC
Students that are already involved in school club activities are better than their contemporaries
The current NIFIC materials are difficult for high school students to comprehend
There are many uses of NIFIC
Passion is the common cord that binds educators and students together

On the Effects of NIFIC

The outputs of NIFIC activities and materials are the number of forums, workshops, training programs and engagements held within the period under review. The table will show this.
The outcomes are, but not limited to, improved understanding of issues, improved democratic attitudes, enhanced knowledge, amount of information shared, enhanced speaking and listening skills. These are also components of a different kind of politics.
The impacts of NIFIC can only be viewed from other achievements that students made or are making from their follow-up activities, which are directly from the measurable outcomes. For example, in Wheatley Middle School, Birmingham, AL, 3 students won scholarships as prizes for a Stop-the violence essay contest. This is a direct impact from the outcome of the forums held in their schools.
The impacts are not always quantifiable- one cannot measure the impacts of a worthy cause such as NIFIC, but we can identify them in the long run.
The impacts of NIFIC on the understanding of students on democracy and democratic practices can only be identified if students take the outcomes to the next level while they are in schools, otherwise, if you see a product of NIFIC taking a leaderful role in the community tomorrow, beat your chest a little because other factors or programs might be partly or fully responsible for the impact.
Rate of transition from a lower grade to a higher grade, and rate of graduation would have been methods of identifying the impacts, but NIFIC is not set out to achieve these - other factors would contribute to the performance rate of the students.

Recommendations

There should be regular retraining of educators to update their knowledge and skills in deliberative practices
A mechanism should be instituted to connect the good works educators are doing.
Students should be encouraged to join school clubs since it has been established that students who are participating in extra-curricular activities remain more civically engaged than their contemporaries.
Educational administrators should be fully integrated into the scheme of things.
Out-of-classroom activities should be used to complement NIFIC
Educators need to learn more about naming and framing
Funders, donor agencies and civil society organizations already promoting democracy and democratic practices should also pay attention to schools that are trying to inculcate these practices into their school system and encourage them.
Science students should not be left out in this process
On impacts, past beneficiaries of NIFIC should be monitored by the school through Old Students Association.

Note: These recommendations are not only for the Kettering Foundation, but also for other promoters of deliberation in the classroom.

Folorunsho Moshood, mfolorunsho@kettering.org
Kettering Foundation, International Fellow

Oral English teacher are needed in China

Janehan — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:08:40 GMT

Oral English teacher are needed in China

Firstly, thanks for your close attention and support!

Our Aim:

Providing high quality oral English teachers for schools (especially for primary and secondary schools) to improve Chinese students English communication level.

Our Requirements:

You are enthusiastic and well behaved, and you can speak English clearly and fluently, furthermore, you should be able to control a 60-student class.

Teaching Place:

Your teaching place can be choose by yourself, from remote villages to bustling urban centres, including Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc.

Your Benefits:

Three months contract, renewable if you wish, or you can choose to teach in another area of China. It is an easy, enjoyable and rewarding work, meanwhile, it is also a good opportunity for you to travel in and explore China.

Tel: +86 10 67527894

Fax: +86 10 67576849

Mobile: +8615201192959

MSN: Janehan0402@live.cn

SKYPE: janehan0402

Contact Person: Janehan

Kettering International Fellow Moshood Folorunsho seeks input about deliberation and students

Patty Dineen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:19:07 GMT

Dear Educators and Administrators,

Folorunsho Moshood, an International Fellow (visiting here from Nigeria) at the Kettering Foundation has asked that I distribute the attached questionnaire to educators who might be able to provide responses to the questions (in the attached questionnaire) and to return it to him at mfolorunsho@kettering.org. (you can read his message below)

Please e-mail your completed questionnaire to mfolorunsho@kettering.org.

Thanks for your help.

Patty Dineen

From: Moshood Folorunsho
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:59 PM
To: dineenp@msn.com
Subject: My Research

Dear Patty,

Im currently doing a research on How the Use of NIF/Deliberation by students affects their understanding of Democracy and Democratic Practices. Im targeting K-12 in the US schools.

To this end, I have prepared a survey questionnaire towards getting practical information from forum organizers who have done projects/programs/activities in this regard. Please, find in the attachment a copy of that survey questionnaire, which you may help send to forum organizers in schools known to you.

Thanks a million.

Folorunsho Moshood
Admin/Program Officer, Educare Trust
International Fellow, Kettering Foundation
200 Commons Road, Dayton, Ohio 45459
937-439-9830 (Direct Office line)
937-266-7737 (Temporary mobile)

Spanish translation service

Patty Dineen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:42:53 GMT

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Reading culture in Africa

Taiwo Ogundimu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:09:40 GMT

Dear people of the forum, We are planing an Exhibition for the youth in Nigeria to help and promote reading culture it is Tagged

The 1st ' ACTS' Inspiration Exhibition

Do anyone think it can help

To All Teachers: HELP!

C2K — Thur, 19 Feb 2009 21:18:43 GMT

Hello, my name is Cecilia. I am doing a research project for an education college course. I am studying the use of television in the classroom. Please fill out this short questionnaire: it should not take much of your time at all. Thank you so much!

Thank you,

Cecilia

What grade do you teach?

How long have you been teaching?

Do you have a television in your classroom?

How often do you use television in your classroom (put in terms of times a day, week, month, or year)?

What do you use the television for in your classroom?

Would you like to use television in your classroom more or less?

Do you believe that television should be used in the classroom? If so, how often?

What do you believe are the benefits of television in the classroom?

What do you believe are the negative aspects of television in the classroom?

What categories of programs do you believe should be used in the classroom?

How do you show television in the classroom (ex. do you turn out the lights, do you discuss the program, etc.)

What specific programs do you believe are beneficial to your class learning?

Day-long forum at high school in Michigan

Patty Dineen — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:15:30 GMT

The Advanced Placement (AP) Government Class at East Kentwood High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan will be presenting an all-school, day-long National Issues Forum (NIF) on America's Role in the World on April 15th, 2009.

For more information contact Hillary Baker at Hillary.Baker@kentwoodps.org.