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P.O. Box 228
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
ph: 732-781-6638
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Programs of Note
Books for Africa, Asia and the Caribbean
An integral part of our mission is the collection, sorting, shipping and distribution of books to children and community members in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Our goal: to encourage and nurture literacy as well as community capacity.School Libraries, Model Kindergartens and Science Rooms
Many of our volunteers--middle school, high school and college student who visit locations that we serve--are really taken aback to arrive in schools that are without basic school supplies, textbooks or even heat.
To create a culture of reading means that we often have to invest in the development of spaces that are aesthetically conducive for studying experimenting.
Literacy Support Programs and Our High Literacy Cluster Model
One of the main objectives of any early childhood teacher is to instill a love of reading and books in all students. Reading requires much skill and practice, and to practice you need books. It's simple, the more children are exposed to books, the more they learn to love them.Teacher Training: Success in a High Literacy Cluster Depends on it
Learning happens because of a relationship between the student and the teacher. This is independent of who is the actual teacher – a parent, a neighbor, or a professional in a school.
Statistician William Sanders has pioneered a technique called value-added assessment—a way of looking at student gains—the amount that a child learns from one year to the next. Teacher effectiveness, he says, is overwhelmingly stronger than any other variable in predicting how much a student will gain in learning during a school year. It predicts better than how much money a child's family earns, better than the education level the parents achieved, even better than the newness of a school’s infrastructure.
That’s why the Global Literacy Project looks toward continuing professional development for classroom teachers. What we demand of teachers and administrators often exceeds what they learned in their initial training—this is even more true in the locales that our organization specializes in.
Global Learning Expeditions
We annually recruit volunteers, who spend between two to six weeks working as teams in GLP supported schools. Our volunteers work with staff and students and are responsible for investing in the schools and their surrounding communities. Team members are selected on the basis of their having the qualities to offer a means of improving the delivery of education at the project site.
High Literacy Clusters
A Global Literacy Project "High Literacy Cluster" (HLC) is a locality in which high literacy exists. Within the HLC, children and adults have immediate access to books and to programs that promote a culture of literacy.
The HLC is the result of a targeted effort by GLP to sustain literacy-supporting ratios of people to media, which we have found to be optimal at 1 to 10.
An HLC affords easy and immediate access to books in homes, schools, and community spaces.
- We begin by providing each school in the HLC with its own well-stocked library and multimedia equipment.
- Next, supporting or helping to create a public library and/or community learning center that will work with our participating schools is crucial for the potential success of the HLC.
- At the same time, we must invest in teacher training in order that teachers will be active and competent stakeholders
- We also give books away to students and other interested community members in order to create "at home" book collections to encourage a culture of reading.
HLCs have different characteristics depending on the country they are operating in. For example, South Africa and Kenya, have swathes of the society with relatively high literacy rates, and as such, they have different needs than other countries that have lower literacy rates across the board.
In countries which may have relatively high literacy communities, HLCs address the fact that most people still do not have access to a wide range of media for enhancing and sustaining their literacy, whereas in low literacy countries, HLCs may be customized to deliver basic access to literacy at the levels and forms in which it is needed.
P.O. Box 228
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
ph: 732-781-6638
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