The Department of Education of Fortaleza will be hosting a LVE training for 45 educators on the above dates.

For further information please contact Paulo Barros at brazil@livingvalues.net

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Formação do Programa Vivendo Valores na Educação-,VIVE na Secretaria de Educação de Fortaleza-Brasil, para 45 educadores.

Datas: 23 de novembro,  09 de dezembro (2011), 27 de janeiro, 15 de fevereiro e 09 e 28 de março (2012).

Local: Secretaria de Educação de Fortaleza

Contato: Paulo Barros brazil@livingvalues.net

There will be a 12-session LVE training for first through third grade teachers of a primary school in Givat Shmuel. The name of the training is "The Power to Blossom", a continuation of training done with the kindergarten of the same municipality. This is occurring as a request from parents to maintain continuity with the results gained by their children with LVE in kindergarten.

For further information, please contact israel@livingvalues.net.

This four-day program is for educators who would like to train to be trainers of Living Values Education. Interested educators must have completed the LVE Train the Educator program and have practiced Living Values Education for at least one year in an educational context. Further to training, it is expected that the newly qualified trainers will be qualified to lead and/or support training in an Arab context. The program will be led by Peter Williams (Kuwait) and Helen Sayers

For more details and to register, please contact kuwait@livingvalues.net.

This seminar will be an introduction to Living Values Education and how it can be applied in the classroom. It is for educators who wish to bring Living Values Education into the classroom. The participants will leave with practical strategies of how to create a values-based learning environment, resolve conflict and to approach the education of values. The program will be led by practicing educators who use Living Values in the everyday classroom. Lead Trainers Helen Sayers and Peter Williams will be in attendance to address whole school related issues.

For more details and to register, please contact kuwait@livingvalues.net.

There will be an LVE Workshop/parent group for parents on ten Saturday mornings from late October through mid-February. This will take place from 9:00 to 12:00 with 30 participants from Nguyen Binh Khiem School in the Cau Giay District. Six teachers will also attend from the same school in order to observe the process.  It is our hope that with further training that some of the teachers will become LVE parent group facilitators.

For further information, please email hanoi@livingvalues.net.

Natasha Ncube, the Focal Point for LVE in Zimbabwe, is facilitating a five-week training course (two weeks in December, one week in January and two weeks in February) at Gateway Teacher Training College in Harare for a group of UNISA (University of South Africa) correspondence students that are being trained for various degree programs. In December, the following topics will be covered: Inspirational Teaching, Teaching Styles and Strategy, Philosophy of Teaching, Values Awareness, personal and Professional Values, Expected Personal Standards, Discipline at Schools, Classroom Management, LVE Theoretical Model, Creating a Values-Based Atmosphere. The documentary “Women of Substance”” that was filmed in 2009 about Values Education at one of the schools in Harare is still very popular in LVE training and will be shown during this seminar.

For further information, please email zimbabwe@livingvalues.net.