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Meeting Minutes - Date
3/26/2001
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Board of Commissioners
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Why we're asking for your help <br /> <br />,/'The time teachers can spend instilling the <br />values of good citizenship is very limited. <br /> <br /> "Learning by doing" makes more of an <br /> impression on young people than lectures. <br /> <br />4'Your members, individually and as a group, <br /> can help more students have a positive, <br /> hands-on leaming experience in community <br /> participation. <br /> <br />* With so much material in the ELP course and with civics such a small slice of <br />that pie, the time teachers can spend instilling the values of good citizenship is <br />very limited. <br /> <br />· We know that "leaming by doing" makes more of an impression on young <br />people than simply reading and listening to lectures. <br /> <br />· We want more kids to have positive, hands-on learning experiences in <br />community participation and we think local organizations like yours can help. <br />Last year, a group often teachers from Saratov, Russia came to the Office of <br />International Studies at UNC-Charlotte for five weeks to leam how civics and <br />concepts of democracy are imparted to young Americans. During that time, they <br />spent twelve days in a host school and seven days at UNC-Charlotte developing <br />their own curriculum unit to take back home. But the rest of their time was spent <br />covering the state--they drove 4,000 miles--taking part in a welcome by the mayor <br />and chamber of commerce members from the town of Mooresville, a potluck <br />dinner at a Church in Olin, a walking tour of Statesville, a Rotary Club meeting in <br />Mooresville, an Iredell-Statesville school board meeting, and a meeting of the <br />Civic Education Consortium in the North Carolina Legislative Building, among <br />other stops. <br /> <br />If we can devote this kind of effort to helping teachers in a new democracy to <br />understand the concept of community involvement, why can't we do the same <br />thing for our own students? I'm no expert, but surely a 15 year-old would get a <br />better sense of civic involvement by taking part in a Red Cross blood-drive than <br />by reading about the Red Cross and how it's funded. <br /> <br /> <br />
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