Visiting Agencies/Attending Lectures

A great deal of our time as Fulbright Attendees has been to visit agencies and attend lectures. This AM we were guests of the Institute for Research on Totalitarism. This agency has many roles and the one we learned about is how they train teachers and provide classroom resources to allow students to do indepth studies about the role of Communism in the everyday Czech life from it's takeover after WWII until 1989. The classroom resources include primary resource and reenactment video clips for classroom discussion, deliberation and critical thinking actitivies.


Dr. Nicholas Maslowski, one of our Fulbright Hosts is the Czech Republic is escorting us by taxi to the site of the future Catholic Kindergarten.





A view through the gate of the future school grounds.




This afternoon, a small group of us attended the Materska Skola sv. Augustina, which is a private school in the making to meet the need of the growing Kindergarten population (ages 3-6). This site was a former Catholic school which became a convent in the 1960's. Now rebuilding and renovating so that the school population can be served with the goals of building Friendships, Community, Spiritual Values and building for future vocation in the Catholic church. Paster Juan, a transplant from Spain heads up the school which will first meet the needs of Kindergarten and growing in grade level each year up through gymnasiuam (high school).