so get into it!
So get into it! talks about the world of the Special Olympics winners: it is an open gate for the young who wish to discover a way to a hospitable society.
The So get into it! Guidebook is a free material offered to elementary school teachers and it promotes the qualities of each person. With this Guidebook, the students learn abut the Special Olympics experience and about the positive message transmitted.
The So get into it! Guidebook contains four lessons meant to achieve three main objectives:
- The students need to understand, accept and cherish the differences and qualities of each individual.
- The students need to learn about Special Olympics and about getting actively involved in this movement.
- The students have to get involved in civic projects.
The four lessons are structured so that assimilating new information will be based on the information received in the prior lesson:
- Being aware – accumulating knowledge about stereotypes and how they can generate an ill-favoured behaviour.
- Understanding – explaining notions of discrimination, aversion.
- Being inspired – establishing role models – the Special Olympics athletes.
- Acting – embolden the students to change attitudes through their behaviour, in their schools and in their community.
The So get into it! program was introduced in Romania in 2004 and is now active in 20 counties nation wide and it involves more than 6,000 students from elementary schools. They are being thought about tolerance towards people with intellectual disabilities, about acceptance and inclusion. By the end of 2007 the So get into it! program will be implemented in the whole country.
The counties in which the So get into it! program is being active:
Arad, Alba, Bacau, Bistrita Nasaud, Braila, Cluj, Constanta, Dolj, Hunedoara, Galati, Iasi, Bihor, Neamt, Arges, Prahova, Sibiu, Mures, Timis, Bucuresti, Ilfov.
 The So get into it! Guidebook
 The Print Version
Program Coordonator: Emilia Serbanica
e-mail: e.serbanica@specialolympics.ro
Tel: 021 318 59 66
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