Golden Key chapters around the globe plan SPARK events each year to help us reach our goals of raising $40,000, dedicating 400,000 hours of service and impacting 400,000 lives by 2017. In July 2014, Golden Key launched SPARK a Change, our new global service initiative. The mission of SPARK a Change is to impact and improve the lives of at-risk youth (ages 0-17) through literacy, education and real-world preparedness.
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Local chapters organize leadership activies, professional development activities, speaker series, community service events, and more. Giving back to the community through service and public works is a core Golden Key value. Chapters are encouraged to organize activities that benefit and contribute to the welfare of their community. Golden Key, at the international level, encourages its members to perform education-based service activities. *In South Africa, graduate students are allowed to join Golden Key if their cumulative average of their undergraduate studies placed them in the top 15% of their respective faculty.
When submitting a transcript for consideration, please make sure to include your mailing address, telephone number and email address. Course audit reports and individual semester/quarter reports are not acceptable. The transcript does not have to be official, but it must contain your name, cumulative course hours and grade point average. To join, please submit a copy of your transcript here. When you arrive at the event, please have your name added to the list of new members who will be called during the ceremony. However, you can choose to attend and be recognized at the upcoming New Member Recognition Event at your current university. Your certificate of membership in Golden Key must be based on your undergraduate grades. If your undergraduate institution has a Golden Key chapter, and you met that chapter’s membership requirements as an undergraduate, you can join at your undergraduate university. Because eligibility varies, please contact the chapter advisor at your university or Golden Key Headquarters for more information. The invitations are extended to top performing graduate school students. chapters may elect to conduct a graduate student mailing membership campaign. In Malaysia, graduate students are not eligible for membership. In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa* and the United States, graduate students can join. Children who have graduated from this programme are noted for their ability and skill and also their level of physical health.Rules vary by country. By the end of the educational programme all children succeed according to a set of criteria that include the ability to concentrate, to solve problems, to evaluate their own actions, to think logically and to act creatively. In the third year, teachers work on activities with different materials and in the fourth year, teachers work on children's abilities to analyse and reflect on their actions. In the second year, teachers work on time and history. In the first year, teachers work on spatial orientation. In their first four years the children experience four components of the programme in sequence. Pedagogical practice is based around a special system of events which helps children develop their initiative and understand their culture.
Parents and family members are also involved in the life of the group. The Golden Key programme is based on a family group, with between 15 and 25 children aged from three to 10 years and their teachers. Within the pedagogical approach derived from this theory the teacher neither nurtures nor teaches, but lives a joint life with the children. In the cultural-historical approach there is a movement from personal meaning to normative, or cultural, sense. If affective and cognitive developments are studied as separate processes, then this has the effect in pedagogy of separating nurture and education. In infants, affect drives action, whereas by the end of the preschool period, affect and action are mediated by intellect. One of the most important aspects of this theory is not just the unity of intellect and affect, but the fact that the relationship between these two changes during the course of development. The ‘Golden Key’ programme is a preschool education programme that is constructed on the basis of Vygotskij's cultural-historical theory.