(NAME-MCE) Call for Lessons addressing Religious Diversity, COnflict Resolution, and Difference!

[Joy Osborne]

Call for Lesson Plans

 

Educators in a Changing America

(Deadline: February 15, 2008)

 

 

Have you had to negotiate your students' religious identities in the
classroom?

 

How do religious tensions in your community manifest in class?

 

What are your strategies for addressing religious diversity in America?

 

Tanenbaum is a secular, non-sectarian not-for-profit organization whose
mission is to build interreligious understanding, thereby defusing the
verbal and physical violence done in the name of religion.  We create
programs for schools, healthcare settings and workplaces where people of
diverse faiths spend much of their time, and support religious
peacemakers working in areas of armed conflict around the world.

 

Our Religion and Diversity Education Program is an innovative and
customized in-school and after-school training program for K-12
educators, which provides them with concrete skills in
multi-cultural/multi-religious educational methods.  We offer various
tools to complement our educator trainings, including four primary
education curricula for students (World Olympics, Immigration,
Interreligious Understanding and Community), innovative web resources,
lesson plans, an After-school workbook, and a high school curriculum
(COEXIST).

 

We believe that in the face of an ever more diverse and multicultural
America, educators have had to develop their own means of addressing
diversity within their communities. Tanenbaum wants to celebrate the
resourcefulness of our nation's educators.  We are publishing a
guidebook of lessons that address religious diversity by and for
America's educators!

 




Is this you or someone you know?

 

Educators who would like to participate should submit their own lesson
plans or nominate lesson plans by another educator which address their
communities' needs in a diverse environment.

 

In keeping with Tanenbaum's mission to provide relevant, interreligious
education materials, the lessons must meet these guidelines:

 

*        Address an issue of interreligious understanding, difference,
or conflict resolution

 

*        Be appropriate for students of elementary, middle, or high
school age

 

*        Prevent prejudice while promoting social justice

 

 

Submissions must include:

*        A description of the context of the lesson (not to exceed 3
pages); 

 

o       What was occurring in your community that prompted the
development of the lesson? 

 

o       How does the lesson relevantly address your classroom's needs?
Your community's needs?

 

o       What have been the outcomes or changes seen in your classroom?
In your community? 

 

*        A lesson plan including all relevant information such as
appropriate grades, required time, necessary or recommended materials,
as well as procedural steps. This must be an original lesson, neither
previously published nor adapted from another source. 

 

Please refer to www.tanenbaum.org/2007_education_contest.html for
requested lesson format.

 

*         A brief biography of the educator who developed the lesson.

 

 

Submission deadline:  February 15th, 2008, via 

 

www.tanenbaum.org/2007_education_contest.html

 

 

Joy Osborne

Program Associate

Religion and Diversity Education

Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding

254 West 31st Street, 7th Floor

New York, NY  10001

ph  (212) 967-7707 x 121

fax (212) 967-9001

josborne at tanenbaum.org 

www.tanenbaum.org

 

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