P.E.A.C.E.

Today we went to a ceremony called Peace Promoting Schools. This ceremony acknowledges different schools throughout South Africa that agrees to have different programs to promote peace. I believe there were at least 20 schools that participated in the program. The ceremony was full of speakers that were very big supporters of the Peace Program. All of the speakers were very good, but two caught my attention. One of the speakers had us play a game about colors, according to our table. This caught my attention because at the end of the game she played a song that gave directions to people that sat at tables with certain colors. It gave me an idea of how could introduce colors in my own future classroom. The other speaker caught my attention by using a Time magazine article that was written about education across the world. It basically said that instead of the U.S. being ahead of the world in education we are steadily getting behind. He also goes on to say that it may be because teaching is more than just teaching now. There are so many more things that teachers are responsible for outside of teaching the students. It is now 50% teaching and 50% testing and other things. I just thought it was very interesting that even educators outside of the U.S. has began to notice all the extracurricular things teachers are required to do. He also, goes on to say that one day he wants South Africa to even be in the rankings of having a well-educated system. I believe that the PEACE program is a great way to start building up South African schools.