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**Teachers * Professors * Teachers * Professors *
Teachers * Professors * Teachers**
All TEACHERS, PROFESSORS!
YOU can make a difference!
Here are some simple steps and ideas for engaging your students,
classrooms, and entire schools and colleges:
1. Read more about I4I on the "Kids," "Youth," and "Adults" pages. Learn how to "Send in Your Ideas."
2. Provide your student or class with the I4I
website url (www.Idea4Idea.com) and help them access and navigate the website on the computer. This can be an individual student or
class activity.
3. Review the pages on the website that would most interest your student(s) ("Kids," "Youth," "Adults," "SCHOOLS AND SERVICE GROUPS" and other pages of interest, e.g. "AWARDS / HONORS").
4. Talk with your student(s) or have a class discussion about what Peace,
Green-Living, and Health are about and why they are important to the world. Listen to what your student or
class says about these topics. This can be part of a special student or class project.
5. Let
your students know that they have good ideas and can think and do things everyday that help the world.
Their ideas and actions may be very simple and easy, or may be very complex. It does not matter. Every idea
and action for Peace, Green-Living, and Health is important.
For example, your 4 year old Pre-K student
might say for an Action, "I cleaned up the backyard today." You can help your 4 year old student send this
in as an Action for "Green-Living." Or, your 12 year old student might say for an Idea for Health, "It
would be great if we started a "Big Brother" and "Big Sister" biking team in our community."
Help them send that in as an Idea. Ideas are just that. They are ideas that may not be acted upon yet. That
is fine. Others may read them and decide to do them.
College students may have very ambitious and
complicated ideas and actions. These are fine too. Encourage them to share them with the world.
Also,
remember your students can write and send in a Poem as an "Idea" or "Action." Teach about poems as
a special project and have students write poems for the website.
Don't worry if your student thinks
of something that is already posted on the website. That is okay. They can send it in for posting too. It
is part of starting a good habit. Let them copy and build on others' ideas and actions. The
important thing is that your students learn about and get in a regular habit of thinking and acting in ways that
help the world.
Both individual students and entire classes, schools, and colleges can have
ideas and take action. Class projects are great ways to get started. For example, the 6th grade at a
school can send in an Idea for Health or a College English class can create and send in an Epic Poem for Peace. Or,
an individual child who has just had surgery and who is in a Child-Life classroom in the hospital can think of an Idea
for Green-Living.
6. Help students and classes send in their ideas and actions. You can work with your class or school/college and submit an idea or action from
the class or school or college as a whole. Be
sure your students and class/school/college follow the I4I Rules for the Ideas and Actions that you submit.
Tell them how they can also send in ideas and actions on their own. They do not have to go through you. 7.
Help your students explore the ideas and actions on the website to get them thinking about other things they can do. Put ideas together to make
a new idea. Or, if they see a good action they want to do as an individual or as a group, help them do it as a project
and then send that in as their "Action".
8. Be interested in and encourage the ideas and actions
they share. Point out how the ideas and actions are growing on the website and coming from different people
in other locations. Congratulate them on helping the world. Watch the World Banners grow!
9. Collect, distribute, and recognize the students' efforts
and also any HONOR CERTIFICATES you receive for the student, class and school-wide ideas or actions posted on the
website. Give them to the student(s) or entire class(es) or entire school, as appropriate, based on who
had the idea or did the action. Show the HONOR CERTIFICATES to the school leadership, other organizations, as appropriate, and parents. Tell students to keep their HONOR CERTIFICATES. 7.
Help your students explore the ideas and actions on the website to get them thinking about other things they can do. Put ideas together to make
a new idea. Or, if they see a good action they want to do as an individual or as a group, help them do it as a project
and then send that in as their "Action".
8. Be interested in and encourage the ideas and actions
they share. Point out how the ideas and actions are growing on the website and coming from different people
in other locations. Congratulate them on helping the world. Watch the World Banners grow!
9. Collect, distribute, and recognize the students' efforts
and also any HONOR CERTIFICATES you receive for the student, class and school-wide ideas or actions posted on the
website. Give them to the student(s) or entire class(es) or entire school, as appropriate, based on who
had the idea or did the action. Show the HONOR CERTIFICATES to the school leadership, other organizations, as appropriate, and parents. Tell students to keep their HONOR CERTIFICATES.
10.
Get together with parents, teachers, professors, classes, schools, and others to find special ways
to honor students, classes, and schools for sending in ideas and actions. Be part of a Power Group and be recognized.
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