http://www.birthofamovement.org Birth of a Movement: Entreprenuers Striving to Change the World Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:38:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.birthofamovement.org/lets-get-global/comment-page-1#comment-198 RitaGoldenGelman Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:29:18 +0000 http://www.birthofamovement.org/?page_id=235#comment-198 Lorna, Good idea. I will write to them and let them know what LGG is all about. Thanks. Rita Lorna, Good idea. I will write to them and let them know what LGG is all about. Thanks. Rita

]]> http://www.birthofamovement.org/lets-get-global/comment-page-1#comment-196 lorna maren Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:15:18 +0000 http://www.birthofamovement.org/?page_id=235#comment-196 another resource is Southern Poverty Law Center's , 'Teaching Tolerance' program. reaches out to all school levels about accepting, including ,understanding, multi ethnicity of the world. another resource is Southern Poverty Law Center’s , ‘Teaching Tolerance’ program. reaches out to all school levels about accepting, including ,understanding, multi ethnicity of the world.

]]> http://www.birthofamovement.org/lets-get-global/comment-page-1#comment-169 Penny Vos Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:44:22 +0000 http://www.birthofamovement.org/?page_id=235#comment-169 To create a new mindset that values experiential education beyond US borders, I suggest that you involve as many elementary school teachers as possible in use of the teaching resource "Talking to the Whole Wide World". This enables teachers to learn-while-teaching the easiest language in the world, Esperanto. Esperanto is for speaking to any of a few million people in over a hundred maximally diverse cultures. Mastery is achievable in 100-200 hours, so the program will fit easily into elementary school with plenty of time for making foreign friendships. The involvement of non-specialist teachers is vital for two reasons: 1.Because it normalizes bilingualism and intercultural involvement 2.Because frequent, short integrated instruction is much more effective for language learning. In addition, these newly bilingual elementary teachers are likely to use their summer holidays traveling (even a little less commercially, more socially than usual since the pasporta servo encourages this) and will bring their own tales home to their classes. How much more likely will they be to want to use their "foreign" language themselves when they see many more adults loving the experience? The design of Esperanto also offers an unusual degree of support to the learning of English and other languages and to development of thinking skills. You can read more about these advantages at www.mondeto.com Our children are global citizens. It is up to us to prepare them to be good ones! To create a new mindset that values experiential education beyond US borders, I suggest that you involve as many elementary school teachers as possible in use of the teaching resource “Talking to the Whole Wide World”.
This enables teachers to learn-while-teaching the easiest language in the world, Esperanto. Esperanto is for speaking to any of a few million people in over a hundred maximally diverse cultures. Mastery is achievable in 100-200 hours, so the program will fit easily into elementary school with plenty of time for making foreign friendships.
The involvement of non-specialist teachers is vital for two reasons:
1.Because it normalizes bilingualism and intercultural involvement
2.Because frequent, short integrated instruction is much more effective for language learning.
In addition, these newly bilingual elementary teachers are likely to use their summer holidays traveling (even a little less commercially, more socially than usual since the pasporta servo encourages this) and will bring their own tales home to their classes.
How much more likely will they be to want to use their “foreign” language themselves when they see many more adults loving the experience?
The design of Esperanto also offers an unusual degree of support to the learning of English and other languages and to development of thinking skills. You can read more about these advantages at http://www.mondeto.com
Our children are global citizens. It is up to us to prepare them to be good ones!

]]> http://www.birthofamovement.org/lets-get-global/comment-page-1#comment-114 Pharmd483 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:37:02 +0000 http://www.birthofamovement.org/?page_id=235#comment-114 Very nice site! Very nice site!

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