ENCOUNTERS IN THE ITALIAN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS

Two projects have been designed for middle and high Italian school students to heighten and expand their awareness of the person and message of Dr. Martin Luther King:

A) Short-term Project:
This project can be carried out in a series of ‘hands-on’ presentations over 2 or 3 sessions,
and with a presentation at which the students would display their ‘finished product(s)’;
i.e. artistic, mass-medial, literary compositions.

Requirements:

• local project leaders that would contact school principals and teachers and would be capable of illustrating the project;
• preparation of the “teachers” in the local groups;
• sharing of the project’s components (proposed subject/theme, purpose, scope, duration, desired results, elements for evaluation);
• instructional materials (posters, pamphlets, books, study guides, questionnaires, CD/DVDs).

B) Long-term Project:
This project is for inclusion in the POF (study curriculum) of the schools, for which the students receive scholastic credit.
The duration of this project can cover an entire school semester, and the project itself be integrated into the scholastic preparation of the students.

Requirements:

• refer to the list in the previous point A).
• With regards to this project, the collaboration and co-elaboration with the teaching faculty requires particular attention, but the results of the project, where done within the school itself, will have a long lasting effect.