[Icvv] One of eight New York City teacher honorees in 2006 was ICVV teacher, Jay Klokker

[David Rosen]

ICVV Colleagues,

A New York City Tech ESOL Instructor, Jay Klokker, received a New  
York Literacy Assistance Center recognition award in July, 2006 for  
conceiving of "new and and varied ways to help his students learn by  
involving them in activities that connect with the larger world."   
One of these ways was an ICVV project with a class in South Africa

"In spring 2000, for example, the theme of Klokker’s pre-GED class  
was “Equal Rights in South Africa and the United States.” To enable  
his students not only to read about apartheid but also to learn about  
its impact from those who had experienced it, he made contact with an  
ESL teacher whose students, mostly Zulu, worked in a factory in  
Durban. The e-mail correspondence that ensued was enlightening for  
both groups of learners.

Klokker later built upon the success of this exchange by having a  
class of intermediate ESOL students set up a website and establish a  
connection with a different group of South African students who also  
had a website. The two classes conducted 'virtual visits' of each  
other’s communities and shared their thoughts on issues such as  
apartheid, poverty, AIDS and the cultural differences and  
similarities between their respective societies. One particularly  
successful exchange occurred when his class and the group in South  
Africa engaged in extensive e-dialog concerning their reactions to  
the film Serafina, which dealt with the subject of young people  
defying apartheid."


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David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net