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Welcome to Emmaus Rotary Club!
 
We meet at 7.30AM on Thursday mornings at Brookside Country Club, 901 Willow Lane, Macungie, PA 18062
 
2016-2017 President 
Jeff McElhaney                            
 
District 7430 Governor
Linda Young
 
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Speakers
Apr 27, 2017
Zambia Teacher Global grant team
Journey for the Teachers exchange from Zambia
May 04, 2017
John Washington
Perspectives on being a Rotarian
May 11, 2017
Meeting Triple Sun Distillary in Emmaus
Fun evening mixer...proceeds to go towards the schlorship fund
May 11, 2017
Romanian Exchange Rotarians to speak
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Jeffrey McElhaney
 
Immediate Past President
Sue Straeter-Doviak
 
President Elect
Burt Duren
 
Vice President
Richard Zayaitz
 
Second Vice President
Steve Gould
 
Secretary
Ray Schumaker
 
Treasurer
Chris Wills
 
Sergeant at Arms
Dale Dries
 
Director
Steve Auvil
 
Director
Ceil Birdsell
 
Director
Don Blose
 
Director
Gary Guthrie
 
Foundation Chair
Bill Erdman
 
Membership Chair
J. P. Raynock
 
Youth Exchange Officer
Anthony Moyer
 
Community Service Chair
Gary Guthrie
 
International Chair
Cindy Hornaman
 
Communications/Public Relations Chair
John Chisca
 
Fellowship Co-Chair
Ceil Birdsell
 
Fellowship Co-Chair
Nancy Berlin
 
Stories
President's Message - February 14, 2017
"A Rotary club gives us an opportunity that no social, political, or specialized business club can do.  It is strong on the human side; it stands for the individual, unfetters them, appeals to their originality, brings out their latent powers, and puts them at their best by extending them the full measure of their confidence and appealing to the best that is in them - 'service not self'".
- Glenn C. Mead, RI President 1912-13
 
 
 
This Thursday we are back to our normal weekly meetings at Brookside CC. Happy Valentines Day.  I look forward to seeing you then! - Jeff McElhaney
 
Teaching the Teachers The Key to Literacy

Realizing that getting children into schools isn't enough to solve illiteracy, Rotary shifts to mentoring and coaching teachers

By Arnold R. Grahl

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Students in Nepal develop critical-thinking skills by taking part in fun and creative activities led by their teachers.

Photo courtesy Nepal Teacher Training Innovations 

That teacher and more than a hundred of her colleagues each received several in-classroom coaching sessions over eight months. They learned how to replace rote memorization drills and repetition of words on a blackboard with exercises that engage their students in critical thinking.

“She went on to tell me excitedly how 45 of her 50 students were moving on to second grade because they had learned to read,” Johnson says. “The program has made believers out of 90 percent of the teachers we have worked with. They are excited about being teachers again, and they go into their classrooms believing they can make a difference.”

After decades of investing in literacy projects, experts have realized that simply getting children into the classroom — either by removing attendance barriers or providing supplies — is not enough. Before students can succeed, the quality of the teaching in that classroom needs to improve.

Learning outcomes over enrollment

Rotary projects like the Guatemala Literacy Project and Nepal Teacher Training Innovations (NTTI) in Nepal are leading the effort to advance childhood reading by empowering teachers to teach better. 

Rotary, the United Nations, USAID, and other organizations are shifting their focus to helping teachers plan lessons that ensure students will actually learn. The entire effort is part of a larger goal to reduce extreme poverty, because knowing how to read and write increases a person’s earning potential and ability to build a better life.

Quentin Wodon, a lead economist at the World Bank, has studied education projects both from a professional standpoint and as a member of the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill (Washington, DC), U.S.A. Wodon agrees that teachers are critical to any attempt to improve learning.

“The best way to enable children to learn is to think broadly about teacher policies,” says Wodon. Training is one of eight key goals set by the World Bank, along with setting clear expectations for teachers, attracting the best candidates, matching teacher skills with student needs, having strong principals to lead teachers, monitoring, providing ongoing support, and motivating teachers to perform.

Wodon’s club is working with the Rotary Club of Kathmandu, Nepal, to support NTTI and the nongovernmental organization PHASE in transforming classrooms where students are silent, passive learners into centers of active learning.

“Improving teaching methods is not an easy task, but programs like this are making inroads,” says Wodon.

For  example, before taking part in the NTTI program, one teacher relied heavily on memorization, having her students copy words off the blackboard. After training, the teacher made her lesson on animate and inanimate objects more interactive, says Ashley Hager, NTTI’s director. The teacher asked children to point to objects and describe how they were different. She then listed the differences on the board and paired students up to discuss them. As a final exercise, the class went outside to find examples in nature.

One student approached the teacher with a live ant in her hand and inquired, “This is an animate object, yes?” The teacher agreed. The child then squashed the ant and asked, “Is it still an animate object now?” Caught by surprise, the teacher asked the rest of the students what they thought, and a lively conversation followed.

Other teachers agree that the training taught them the value of interactive teaching.

“It’s transformed my way of teaching and given me brilliant ideas to employ the best teaching practices I have learned,” says Goma Khada, who teaches fourth grade at Shrijana Higher Secondary School in Thumpakhar.

 

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MEMBER RESPONSIBILITIES

Check the list below to see if you are scheduled to serve as Greeter & Raffle, Sign-in Table, Invocation or EREY.

If you will not be at the meeting when you have an assignment, please arrange for another member to swap with you or cover for you. NOTE-CHANGES MAY BE MADE FROM PREVIOUS TRUMPETS.

Thank you for taking your turn and helping Emmaus Rotary Club run a smooth meeting.

 

April 20, 2017

Frantz - Greeter & Raffle 

Heller & Goehler - Sign-in Table

Guthrie - Invocation

Halsey - EREY

April 27, 2017

Hermann - Greeter & Raffle

Hobson &  Hornaman - Sign-in Table

Kabiru - Invocation

Kenny - EREY

May 4, 2017

King - Greeter & Raffle

Kraus & La Pierre - Sign-in Table 

Lahanas - Invocation

Loch - EREY

May 11, 2017

Miles Koch - Greeter & Raffle

Moring & Moyer - Sign-in Table

Palmquist - Invocation

Peaslee - EREY

 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
 
                       
 
Here's What's Happening at This Weeks
         Emmaus Rotary Club Meeting        
 
 
April 20, 2017.........4 Way Speech contestants-----Students will be giving their speech for Rotarians to hear
 
 
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April 27, 2017........Zambia Teacher Global grant team-----Journey for the Teachers exchange from Zambia
 
May 04, 2017........John Washington-----Perspectives on being a Rotarian
 
May 5 - 7, 2017 Rotary D7430 Conference at Eden Resort (Lancaster)
Proceeds to go tto the schlorship fund
- See more at: https://portal.clubrunner.ca/6560/Speakers#sthash.bfCS3I6q.dpuf
 
May 18, 2017........Alicia, Valerie and Don - Speaking about their trip to Cuba and the Dominican Republic
 
May 25, 2017........Jeff Keller
 
June 1, 2017.........Jim Palmquist - AARP on the topic of staying at home for care after a life changing event.
 
June 8, 2017.........David Dunn - Classification Talk
 
June 21, 2017......President's & Club Recognition Dinner 6:00PM - 9:00 PM  Place: Lower Macungie Community Center, Casual Dress Cost:. $35/person More Information to Come!
 
June 29, 2017.........President Change Over - Burt Duren will be inducted this morning
 
July 6, 2017..........Club Assembly with our new President