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The Northeast Global Education Center
Calendar for Spring, 2006 - 2007:

For location or for more information contact :
Dr. Swiniarski ( louise.swiniarski@salemstate.edu )
or Mrs. Anderson (978 542 6534 and 978 542 6044 )


EVENTS:

The following events are offered to all educators, the college community and local residents interested in globalizing the schools’ offerings.

They are free of charge. Professional Development Points can be arranged for teachers who participate in the programs.



Annual  Series for 2007-08 

The Annual Building Tomorrow’s World in Your Classroom Lecture Series: 

This three part lecture series with follow up discussion will present timely topics in education that address the impact of global changes in education. The lecture series is designed for local area teachers of Pre K-12 and open to interested members of the Salem State College community.

1 Creating a Caring Classroom for Global Understanding
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Presenter: Linda Connell
2002 NGEC Global Educator of the Year  and teacher at the Horace Mann Laboratory School, Salem State College campus

This workshop offers a hands-on presentation of teaching and learning experiences that builds cultural sensitivity and peaceful resolutions to conflicts in the classroom and fosters world citizenship.

2 Designing Place Base Programs with Global Connections
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Presenter: Linda Connell
2002 NGEC Global Educator of the Year  and teacher at the Horace Mann Laboratory School, Salem State College campus

With the theme, everything global is local; this presentation will provide a model for place base educational projects that extend the local community to different corners of the world.

3 Equity and Equality in Education:  Does it Change?
Wednesday, November 7. 2007
Presenter:Mary-Lou Breitborde
Associate Dean of Salem State College’s School of Education  and author of the book, Teaching on Principle and Promise.

By examining the question of equity and equality in education since the early 1990’s into the 21st century, a case study look at the still present ‘achievement gap’ in American education will be made through discussion and video presentation. 

 

Contact:  Louise Swiniarski, Education Department
Te. 1 978 542 6534 or email lswiniarski@salemstate.edu



The Annual Globalizing the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks Workshop Series:

This program consists of three linked workshops designed to globalize the standards and strands of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks for teachers of pre-k to 12.  All educators are welcome to these following events.

1 International Schooling: An Illustrated View of the Past and Present for the Future
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Presenter:  Thomas Daly
Norman Rockwell Museum Curriculum Specialist.

A visual presentation of Norman Rockwell’s work illustrating ways to learn around the world.

2 A Global View of Architecture from the Past and Present for the Future
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Presenter:  Giles Laroche
Children’s book author and illustrator

This workshop will be given by the noted children’s book author and illustrator, Giles Laroche on his latest book, What’s Inside? The author will have a book signing at this event.

3 Looking at the World through Many Prisms
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Presenter:  Linda Bourke
Author, Illustrator and Professor at Massachusetts College of Art

Linda Bourke of the Massachusetts College of Art will share her work with various media for examining global issues, images and environmental happenings.

 

Contact:  Louise Swiniarski, Education Department
Te. 1 978 542 6534 or email lswiniarski@salemstate.edu

 

 


School Based Outreach Programs

 

The Global Bookshelf Story Time

Working with local area elementary schools, the Northeast Global Education Center will continue The Global Bookshelf Story Time in kindergarten and primary grade classrooms to promote literacy skills and to develop a global perspective in young children.  Stories, folk tales and fairy tales from around the world are told, read or acted out through puppetry and readers theater. A copy of each book read is given to the participating classroom for display in a special Global Bookshelf  to be read again in school or at home. Participating schools have included the Essex Elementary School, Essex Public Schools: Witchcraft School, Bentley School, Salem Public Schools.

 

Seeing the World of Science through Poetry and Art:  An International Exemplar

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Horace Mann Laboratory School, Salem State College Campus
Presenter: Jill Pirrie
Recipient of the Member of the British Empire Award
Co-Sponsor: The Mary Procopio Endowed Lecture Series

The Northeast Global Education Center will collaborate with the Saw Trust of Norwich, England and Salem State College’s Mary Procopio Lecture Series to present a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching science through poetry writing and art.  The Saw Trust, funded by both the National Educational Science and Technology Award of Great Britain and the Swiss Branco Weis Foundation, is under the direction of Anne Osbourn, an internationally acclaimed biologist at the John Innes Centre of Norwich, England.  Professor Osbourn designed the Saw program for teachers and children aged 4 to 14. The Saw initiative was previously presented at Salem State College. Since then, the Saw Trust has published See Saw, an anthology of British children’s artwork and poetry that grew out of the project.  An upcoming professional book on instructional strategies will feature contributions developed by Massachusetts teachers.  For further information about the project go to www.sawtrust.org. 

This year the Northeast Global Education Center is pleased to present a key player in the Saw program, Jill Pirrie, who received a Member of the British Empire award from Queen Elizabeth II for her successful teaching of poetry to the children of Britain. Ms. Pirrie will offer a day long program on her methodology.  In her first session, she will demonstrate with Horace Mann Laboratory School third graders how to teach about the physical world through creative expression.  Then in a follow up session, she will read from the published editions of her students’ poetry. The program is open to elementary and middle school educators. Local poets, scientists and artists are welcome as well!

 

Contact:  Louise Swiniarski, Education Department
Te. 1 978 542 6534 or email lswiniarski@salemstate.edu

 

 

Global Geography Workshops

 Global Impacts of Regional Conflicts

This series of six Saturday workshops will examine global conflicts in different areas of the world.  Each four hour session will focus on a different area with a content presentation given by an expert of the area and teaching applications presented in a hands-on workshop by a National Geographic Society Teacher Consultant. John Daly will provide the pedagogy for all sessions. All content area experts are faculty of the Salem State College Geography Department. Participants will be expected to attend all six sessions to earn PDP’s.  The series is designed for teachers of upper elementary and middle school levels but open to all interested educators. 

The workshops include:

Middle East Part 1 the Israeli-Palestinian Issue
Content Presenter:  Dr. S. Silvern
Date: October 27, 2007

Latin America
Content Presenter: Dr. L Krebs
Date December 8, 2007

Middle East Part II The Other Middle Eastern Conflicts
Content Presenter:  Dr. S. Matchak.
Date: January 26, 2008

East Asia
Content Presenter: Dr. S. Young
Date: March 1, 2008

Africa
Content Presenter: Dr. S. Silvern
Date: March 29, 2008

South Asia
Content Presenter: Dr. S. Matchak
Date:  May 3, 2008               

Contact: Dr. Richard T. Anderson, Geography Department
Te. 1 978 542 6044

 

Geography of Climate Changes: Issues

This program will be held on Early Day 2008 to explore with students and teachers the impact of recent global climate changes and feasible options for protecting the environment.

Presenter:  Dr. L. Krebs, Geography Department
Date:  April 14, 2008

 

The Geography and History of World War II in Western Europe

Since many international relation experts argue that the seeds for global issues and conflicts of the 21st century were planted in the events of World War II, the NGEC is pleased to offer this timely Saturday workshop.  The all day Saturday workshop is a joint effort of faculty members from both the History and Geography departments of Salem State College. The workshops are designed primarily for secondary teachers in the Social Sciences but open to all interested educators. 

Presenters:  Dr. S. Matchak and Dr. C. Mauriello, History
Date:  May 10, 2008

Contact: Dr. Richard T. Anderson, Geography Department
Te.   1 978 542 6044.

 

 

 

 

 

***Are they still doing "Pack Your Bag?"

Pack Your Bag

Teacher:  Linda Connell, Grade 3
Horace Mann Laboratory School
Salem, MA.

Facilitator:  Dr. Louise Swiniarski
Education Department
Salem State College

The Horace Mann Laboratory School and Rockland St. Mary Community Primary School in Rockland St. Mary, a rural English village, are implementing an international exchange program. British children share a study of their community, while the Salem children reciprocate with an examination of their lives in an American city.  This program began in May, 2006. In November 2006, Dr. Swiniarski brought the materials developed by the Grade Three Class of Horace Mann to the children in Rockland St. Mary, who in turn exchanged their work with the Salem children.  She presented the British children’s work to Grade three of the Horace Mann Laboratory School on January 10th.

The program, Pack Your Bag, has been a successful exemplar of an international approach to place based education. In previous years Horace Mann Laboratory School pupils exchanged their research about Salem with children from the Brussels International School and the International School in Geneva, Switzerland.  Teachers for the 2006-07 project connected Linda Connell, Horace Mann Laboratory School, Salem, MA with Denise McGee, Rockland St. Mary Primary School, Norfolk County, UK. The British children wrote about the program and Dr. Swiniarski’s visit for their school’s website. To read their reports for further information on the UK/USA exchange go to the Rockland St. Mary Primary School website, www.rocklandstmary.ik.org.

 


 

The Global Bookshelf Story Time

The Northeast Global Education Center will continue The Global Bookshelf Storytime in kindergarten and primary grade classrooms to promote literacy skills and to develop global perspectives and understandings in young children.  Stories, folk tales and fairy tales from around the world are told, read and acted out through puppetry and readers’ theater.  A copy of each book is given to the participating classroom for display in a special Global Bookshelf to be read again in school or at home.  The program will run during the spring semester of 2007. Louise Swiniarski will implement the program in Salem and Essex schools.