-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WIB-LA] Attention Teachers! Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:26:52 -0500 From: Ben Parke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AFSC's Middle East Peace Education Program (MEPEP) is launching a new Teacher Resource Project, focused on helping equip and resource high school teachers with accurate, balanced and age-appropriate materials about the Middle East for the classroom. We are in the initial stages of this project and are looking for a group of interested teachers to help us assess what is most beneficial to teachers and where AFSC should direct its efforts. In the coming months, we hope to hold several informal evening meetings to hear your needs, and to offer you the resources we have. If you are interested in being a part of these initial "focus group" meetings and helping to shape the direction of this project, please send us the following information via email (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by Thursday, February 10 and we will be in touch with you: 1) Name: 2) Email: 3) Address: 4) Phone Number: 5) What subject and grade level do you teach? 6) Why are you interested in this project? Thanks for your interest! Below is a brief statement about the project: For many reasons, the Middle East is one of the most historically misunderstood regions in the world. Most Middle East education and activism in the United States has focused on the adult population. Often, by the time they are addressed, the average American adult's perspective has been informed by decades of information and misinformation coming from the media, commonly held assumptions or stereotypes, and either inadequate or else completely absent formal education on the region. This is an especially serious lack given the essential role that the United States has played, and continues to play in the region today. The volatile and complex issues involved and the importance of understanding the Arab and Muslim world demand that we pay more formal attention to the region if we are to responsibly address such issues as "terrorism" or "peace" in the Middle East. The AFSC Middle East Teacher Resource Project (METRP) attempts to take a more long-term proactive approach within this context by building capacity in the educational system, with a view towards nurturing a more informed citizenry for the future. By working directly with teachers, METRP hopes to encourage more formal education about the peoples, cultures, history and politics of the Middle East among the student population, a younger target group than is traditionally reached. It seeks to do this on several levels: 1) By providing publicly accessible listings of relevant curricula and resources about the Middle East through electronic and printed materials; 2) By working with and fostering networks that will advocate for more informed and balanced education on the region (through teachers' unions, associations, credential programs, etc.); 3) By working directly on a local level with teachers and in classrooms by offering speakers, presentations, videos, printed materials and other educational aids. Shady F. 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