Objectives of the Teaching Guide
To increase student understanding of the prevalence of youth participation in violent conflict and the challenges to addressing this global issue.- To familiarize students with strategies for conflict prevention, management, and resolution.
- To develop students’ analytical reading, writing, and research skills.
- To reinforce students’ abilities to collaborate and produce a work product with peers using traditional and electronic means of research, discussion, and document preparation.
- To enable classroom teachers, students, and contest coordinators to:
- understand the overall theme of the National Peace Essay Contest (NPEC) topic;
- define and understand the concepts contained in the essay question;
- formulate a thesis for their essay;
- review bibliographic resources and select qualified sources for their research;
- write, edit, and submit essays to the United States Institute of Peace.
- To provide teachers with lesson plans, worksheets, bibliographic sources, and factual material to assist them in preparing students to write essays for submission to the National Peace Essay Contest.
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