GFWC/Ohio Federation of
Women's Clubs
Education Department
EDUCATION
IN THE COMMUNITY Division
Chairman: Peggy Meola
CORD
Chairman: Joann Holder EORD
Chairman: Pat Ketzell
LED
Chairman: Margaret Resar NED
Chairman: Sally Joseph
NWD
Chairman:
WORD Chairman: Lana Moyer
Education
in the Community Program
Objective: Motivate and arouse curiosity by encouraging responsibility
for independent learning.
Goal: To
identify lifelong learning practices, paying special attention to higher
education related to lifelong learning. Helping your community to achieve
Lifetime of Learning through available resources.
Activities
-Encourage
educational programs for club members and all members of their communities.
-Develop a local
resource directory to identify local, county, state and federal programs that
offer assistance combine club programming with ESO related activities, such as
reading awareness and book promotion.
-Educate club members that Epsilon Sigma Omicron (ESO) is an honorary educational
society open to all per-capita paying GFWC federated club members. Combine club
programming with ESO related activities, such as reading awareness and book
promotion.
-Promote local
authors and their work. Sponsor a book review and/or a book signing.
-Sponsor a Peer
Support Group for individuals with disabilities that provides direction and
community involvement for educating local communities about the (
- Support your local libraries; help with
reading to children’s groups. Work with the local Bookmobiles through your
library, encouraging visits to shut-ins, shelters, nursing homes, and daycares.
-Support and/or
sponsor educational tuition-free credited seminars that are designed especially
for those who are at least 50 years old and/or retired. Programs and courses
that offer learning opportunities in computers, the Internet, estate planning,
career enrichment, fitness and recreation, world cultures, astronomy,
gardening, history genealogy, antique collecting, creative writing and much
more.
-Visit your
local Employment
and Career Services
Resources
FOCUS ON
LITERACY Division
Chairman: Pat Ketzell
CORD
Chairman: Joann Holder EORD
Chairman: Pat Ketzell
LED
Chairman: Margaret Resar NED
Chairman: Sally Joseph
NWD
Chairman:
WORD Chairman: Lana Moyer
Literacy
Activities
ADULT LITERACY
-Recruit
qualified club members and the community to become potential tutors. Establish
an opportunity to support G.E.D. classes in your community.
FAMILY LITERACY
-In
striving to eliminate literacy we need to examine the factors that cause family
literacy. Most families having a lack of education evolves poverty and low self
esteem. Sponsor a program to address “How to become a Teaching Parent.” Improve
early childhood development by sponsoring a free Pre-K vision screening.
YOUTH LITERACY
-Support the
collection & distribution of books to schools, libraries, literacy centers,
etc. Schedule a special event or provide time during club meeting to invite
children for a “Story Tin” time and present them with books.
- Advocate for in
school programs such as Read Across America and celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday
on March 2 by reading to children at local schools or libraries.
-Change
someone's life by becoming a vision screener. Promote eye health and safety in
your community by encouraging club members to become a Prevent Blindness
volunteer. Volunteers provide free screenings for preschoolers and older
children to find eye problems.
-Volunteer at a
local after school or summer program. Encourage older children to become tutors
for younger children.
RESOURCES
Encourage Club members to use
the resources listed in the GFWC Manual, they are very helpful.
http://www.preventblindness.org/Ohio
Prevent Blindness Ohio’s Vision Care Outreach program is
to provide free, comprehensive,
professional eye exams, follow-up care, education and eyewear to
medically indigent children,
youth, families and homeless/uninsured adults.
www.kidsreadingtokinds.org Reading Improvement – Overcoming
environmental conditions
bringing love into learning.
www.literacycenter.net
alphabet and other basic
literacy skills
Celebrate Dr.Seuss’s Birthday http://familycrafts.about.com
www.teachers.net Features educational news,
chat live and free classroom pintables
www.FirstBook.org Gives children from low-income families the
opportunity to read and own
their first new books.
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