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Educator's Guide Completed for Agenda for the 21st Century Project!!! Field Testing In Progress Were aY wtEY iii— r An Agenda for the 21st Century is finished. The field -cost version of this 400-page educational resource +s now rexhing high school teachers around doe country. The EduuMeLfigik Consists of student handouts and instructor notes for lows in each of six issue areas --peace, population, environment, international development, educatiou and ethics. It also provides lessons anorad the 22 interviews in the book by IN. Rushwonh M. Kidder, An Amends for nhe 2l st Con IU Agmd3 ft9k9E `i = Direetary portion lists 30 organizations in the six issue areas selected for the quality of their information and programs, and for their approfxiaemess forYoung PeOPIC who want to follow up on their own We ate continuing with production of the videotapes, conducting additional interviews and preparing the final production activities. The tapes should be available next slag. Thanks to a special grant from the C. S. Harding More Foundation, allowing to to underwrite the Cost of publishing the guide, we are able to make the guide available to teachers at cost. Copies of the EduCator's Guide. theand Dr. Kidders boot are available tow. See the order form on page 8 for information. Next summer we eapeet to bring together a small gaup of teachers who have actively t x zd pamfoas of the grad: in classrooms during the 8&89 school year, is order m refuw and expand die lessops in the guide. COUNTDOWN 2001 CURRICULUM CHALLENGE MODEL Essential skills and perspeetives for effective 21st century citizenship are developed through the activities in the Educatces C ide- An Aeenda fa d,e 21sr Ce=- We developed the COUNTDOWN CHALLENGE model as a framework for examining these skills. Nails a brief summary, C= Chnnng are comingtoner znd faster. We ecru living in a time of rapid transitinm Changes of the speed and magnitude we face require more sophisticated critical thinking by adasts in a democracy than ever before irk Hrman eh2j=and values m a greater extent than many of us realize. shape the futme. We need the human will to make the decisions that wail shape a beau future for humanity. A- Alternative futures me limited only by our ability to create or imagine them. No one future exists, car is the In= already dcterminedt I-- L Mena -jean time r 'ves me needed to guide as in the choices we m&1 Taking the tang view of issues puts our immediate. Personal (ard oft m selfish) inarests into a context that promotes cooperation and human development Iv Linking the parts of a system with each other, and linking systems within or related to each other is key to understanding the issues that face as individually and globally. Viewing the planet from outer space, we appreciate that all the na" world simrs a common hax— due planet Earth. E= Frh;ral and c'vwi. a Orientation is essential if we are To survive as a species. We need to develop and act upon an expsned, mm re sense of our responsibility to each other, our environment, and fume gm talinM N= New i as hat wort are more important than ever before. The old assumpdoms, solmiotr and institutions may not be able to make the transition into the 21st century. C,= Globes or intrtratiomt ormxctives am needed to help us understand that we can no longer afford a narrow, parochial view of the world. The 'grolnl village' is a reality, not justa corrupt E- Efficacy 'a one of the most ffiRa ant traits an effective ciyzen in the future can have. A democracy depends on its cid= feeling and behaving efficaciously. The bees way to develop a sense of efficacy is to rake steps to bring about positive change related to something that maths to you. We have also used the COT WI DOWN CHALLENGE Model with Ludnec and govenaneni leaders and invite you to think about these skills and perspectives. Wed the to bear from you about your comments and ideas Winter'88-'89 Page 2