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BRITISH EDUCATOR TO VISIT GROVE CITY COLLEGE |
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April 04, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – For the first time in 15 years, the Grove City College Department of Education is hosting an international educator. British educator Georgina Couram, deputy head of Risley Avenue Primary School in London, England, will participate in College and local activities from April 6 to 13.
Couram graduated with honors from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, Africa, with a bachelor’s degree in education. She has specialized training in many areas, including counseling, scholastic management in finance and behavior, and communication literacy and language development in children.
Although Grove City College students have visited Couram and Risley over the years – and worked there as student teachers – this trip will be Couram’s first visit to Grove City College and to the United States. Couram’s purpose in visiting, said Johnson, is “to share her culture and to learn from our education system.”
Because of her work at Risley, Couram is especially knowledgeable about international education. The school is located near Tottenham, an area of London with a large number of ethnic groups. Therefore, Risley’s student body is very diverse. “The neat thing about her school,” Johnson said, “is that they have more than 50 languages spoken. It’s very much a melting pot.”
While in the States, Couram’s schedule will be diverse and full and will include visiting preschool classes in the College’s Early Education Center, speaking in Grove City education courses and talking with student teachers about how to get jobs overseas.
On April 7, Couram will be a part of a question-and-answer session with student teachers in Sticht Lecture Hall in the Hall of Arts and Letters on the Grove City College campus. She will also lecture on educational issues in the United Kingdom at noon in the Hall of Arts and Letters.
April 8, she will visit Hillview Elementary School in Grove City and tour Wendell August Forge. At 5:30 p.m., she will lecture again in Sticht Lecture Hall on understanding the British education system.
After a Wednesday visit to Hillview Intermediate Center and Amish farms in Volant, she will speak to the Foundation of Education classes at 4 p.m. in the Technological Learning Center auditorium.
Couram’s daughter, Zara, will accompany her to the States, and she will attend Hillview as an exchange student.
For more information on events surrounding Couram’s visit, contact the Office of International Education at (724) 458-4016.
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