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Rod Williams, a fourth year engineering student from Winsloe, says he often hangs on to most of his notes. “Before paper gets thrown out, it’s always covered — side to side.”

But this does not mean that paper necessarily avoids the landfill fate.

“Whenever I’m on campus, I use the blue boxes, but we don’t have a recycling program at home,” Williams

continues.

Silva is of the opinion that Charlottetown could benefit from having a recy- cling program like the one in Summerside.

“It does so much to help,” she says. “But people need to be informed first in order to cooperate.” She also pointed out that in Montreal where they have the program, it’s very simple to follow.

“People need to get involved [in recycling], recy- cling of paper is major and

waste

tocopy on both sides -use less and recycle | use recycled paper

{ Ideas to help improve recycling

-have a day of recycling

-print overheads instead of using plastic

- post lecture notes or put them on the Internet -print on both sides of paper to reduce paper

-make double sided handouts

-use e-mails more often instead of memos -Corel Powerpoint Presentations

- ask the library to teach students how to pho-

The Cadre

° 16 March 1999

UPEI Education _ students start _ international practice teaching placements

On March 11, thirteen Education students from the University of Prince Edward Island hosted a farewell re- ception at, in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building on the UPEI campus. To earn their “Specialization in Inter- national Education,” the stu- dents are required to com- plete their practice teaching in a foreign country. This year eight students are traveling to Scotland, two are going to England, two are heading to Mexico and one student has been accepted to teach in Iceland. The recep- tion was organized by the stu- dents to thank the businesses, organizations and individuals who gave donations to sup- port their travel costs.

“We worked as a team to fund-raise and to learn about teaching internation- ally, says Darcy McCardle,

one of the students registered in the specialization program. “I am really excited about traveling to Iceland. It will be a learning experience for eve- ryone, and I’m confident it will also be very rewarding.”

UPEI is the first uni- versity in Canada to offer a specialization in international education to pre-service teachers and was recently given a national award for curriculum change entitled Scotiabank-Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Award for Excel- lence in International Educa- tion. The aim of the new, post-degree, two-year BEd specialization is to prepare students to be knowledgeable and aware of the increasingly interdependent nature of the world. The program provides instruction on bringing a glo- bal perspective into the Ca-

nadian classroom and on teaching students from di- verse backgrounds. It also prepares students to teach in other countries.

“The Specialization in International Education pro- gram is effective because it combines international edu- cation theory with the prac- tical experience of teaching in a foreign classroom, says Dr. Graham Pike, Director of International Education at UPEI. “Through the expo- sure to other cultures and per- spectives, students enrolled in this program will be able to gain the skills needed to teach overseas, improve cur- riculum at universities and schools, and help school stu- dents become more aware of the world in which they live.”

For-more information contact Dr. Graham Pike at 628-4304.

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