John Hunter and the World Peace Game

• 1977
• He got a degree in education
• Got job teaching gifted children
• What do I do?
• She said what do you want to do?
• No standards or objectives. 1978
• World Peace and Other Fourth Grade Achievements
• Its a story that's a testiment to teachers
• He saw his teachers coming through him. Their smiles, flashing eyes of intense love for their students, "the stare," his parents, their gestures (he is one of his mom's teaching gestures).
• The game started at 5'6 piece of plywood, and is now 4' by 4' by 4' with outerspace, undersea, and other levels.It's interactive.
• There are 4 countries around the board. Some rich some poor, some have prime ministers, commercial and military assets, the prime minister got to chose their cabinet, weather goddess, trouble maker(try to undermine everything in the game),
• Can fourth graders solve social, economical, and military problems of Africa.
• The game is a fictional Africa.
• He wanted the kids not to sit in lectures and such he wanted the kids to be involved: to interact (they didnt have that term then)
• epic/minority tensions, oil spills, global warming, etc.
• He says that he is sorry but we left the world for them in a terrible place and we hope that they can fix it.
• The children were participating in a game, and , as a teacher, Hunter thought that he was failing as a teacher because the children were all considered poor, and they were all going to lose the game until about five seconds before everything ended the students decided to come up with money from all of the other countries so that they can donate to that country so that the country would not be poor. In order to do this, the prime minister had to accept, and he did.
• He was very humble and taught  his students humility and how to think on their feet. He did not make any of the world problems seem any lesser than they are which is good for the students of today. He made sure that his students were well prepared for the world and how to handle certain situations.
•  Him teaching the children this way makes it more fun and brings real life into their perspective. He makes them think on their feet and look for their own knowledge rather than just lecture them
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