|
|
|
for 8th
Grade Model U.N. Teachers
24 August 2000
Dear Teachers
and Staff,
Once again, summer
has ended way too soon for all of us. Maybe
the American Civil Liberties Union will take up the cause of honoring the basic
right of all students and teachers to have a three-month summer vacation. Then again, maybe they won’t.
Anyhow,
reality calls and we’re gearing up for what we hope is a terrific 8th
Grade Gateway Model U.N. year. We’ve
worked over the summer to develop some new PowerPoint presentations and to
explore options with you whereby your students could use more audio-visual aids
during the presentations at sessions. However,
we don’t want to reduce the number of resolutions that students can debate at
each session. All of this needs
discussion and we can talk about this and much more at our first meeting of the
year.
That
first Faculty Advisors Meeting will be on Monday,
October 2, at 4:00 PM, at the UNA headquarters at 121 So. Meramec (10th
Floor) [map enclosed].
This will be the time for us to go over the framework of the program and
initiate improvements. Please bring your suggestions along. We will also work on scheduling our classroom visits.
As always, our meetings will last no more than an hour, because boredom
happens.
Proposed
dates for subsequent faculty meetings can also be worked out then.
Currently, those suggested dates are Monday,
November 6; Monday, February 26, and a final follow-up meeting in late
April (we have one less meeting time this year).
Arrangements
have been made with the Creve Coeur Government Center for facilities this year.
Our 2001 dates will be:
| Wed. March 14 Wed., March 21 |
Wed., March 28 Wed., April 4 |
Wed., April 11 Wed., April 25 |
World
events should make this an outstanding year for the 8th grade MUN.
More and more concern is being raised globally about how the United
Nations might more capably handle human rights and economic & social issues.
We look forward to having your students deeply engaged in the
discussions.
Our
outstanding staff member Patsy King is currently on maternity leave.
We will miss her during the period that she is gone.
In the meantime, we have hired Gretchen Haupt, one of our most
outstanding high school seniors from last year.
She will be working in organization, classroom visits, and chairing.
She is not only a four year veteran of our M.U.N., but also a four-year
veteran of the Model United Nations of the University of Chicago.
Take
care and call us if you have any questions.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur H. Lieber & Gretchen Haupt
High
School M.U.N. Coordinators