ARMENIAN TEACHERS GLIMPSE U.S. JUSTICE.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer GLENDALE - A group of teachers visiting the Southland from Armenia got an introduction to the American justice American Justice is an hour-long criminal justice program on the cable channel A&E Network, hosted by Bill Kurtis. The show features interesting or notable cases, such as the Scarsdale Diet doctor murder, the Hillside Stranglers, Selena Murder of a Star, Matthew Shepard, or the system Thursday from the Glendale Police Department. The 14 instructors will take their experiences back to Armenian classrooms and launch discussions and interactive projects, which the Soviet-style education system has not offered, said Beth Broussalian, coordinator of the Civic Education Training Program. ``Our goal is to teach them cooperative learning cooperative learning Education theory A student-centered teaching strategy in which heterogeneous groups of students work to achieve a common academic goal–eg, completing a case study or a evaluating a QC problem. See Problem-based learning, Socratic method. , skills and concepts and to show them by example what civics civics, branch of learning that treats of the relationship between citizens and their society and state, originally called civil government. With the large immigration into the United States in the latter half of the 19th cent. is at the ground level,'' she said. The Armenian teachers have toured Hoover and Glendale high schools and planned to sit through hearings in various Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County courtrooms while in Southern California through Feb. 5. Then they will spend a week in Washington, D.C., before flying back to Armenia and implementing a civic education curriculum with materials including the country's first Western civics textbook. At the police station, spokesman Chahe Keuroghelian gave the group a quick introduction to American laws, shedding light on cultural differences. Jaywalking jay·walk intr.v. jay·walked, jay·walk·ing, jay·walks To cross a street illegally or in a reckless manner. [From jay2, inexperienced person. , for example, is not a crime in Armenia. Also, he explained to the visitors, Glendale officers would check on a home in which a domestic disturbance was reported by neighbors. In Armenia, family disturbances are handled within the family. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion