Tools for Educators and Parents
Action Steps
Twelve Methodologies to help foster change
6 Billion People—1,729 Languages—190 Countries—143 Religions
Brainstorm: ideas to bring the issue of the plight of the girl child in education to organizations that support children’s’ causes, or are organized for children.
Collaborative Teams: to organize local schools to get involve and link with schools in the developing world with support of information, books and technology
Case Study: Write paper and submit to Newsrooms, Journals, Newspapers
Debate: in parent-teacher meetings, town hall, on the Internet
Drama: Have school plays that tell the story of the girl child. Invite local dignitaries
Campaign to write: letters to Non Governmental Organizations (hotlink to NGO list) to offer support and to volunteer.
Linkage of schools districts: with like minded districts through the Internet.
Annual UNICEF day: to promote awareness and to teach the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Use Halloween as a time for collection for funds for UNICEF.
Incorporate a human rights curriculum: into the Social Studies Framework
Field day outings: where children visit orphans and children of need.
Poster Campaign: and present it to the City Hall.
Adopt a child campaign: every child or classroom links through the Internet with another classroom in a country less fortunate that the one they live in as determined as a developing country by the United Nations
Source: Richard Pierre Claude Professor Emeritus University of Maryland
