Future Friendly Schools - Global Citizenship
What makes a Future Friendly School? Through this participatory process, you will help to identify and prioritize the most relevant indicators for certification across our three focus areas of environmental stewardship, student voice, and global citizenship. We appreciate your participation and look forward to your insights! This page is for voting, commenting on, and suggesting new indicators in the area of global citizenship. You can switch to the other certification indicators through the links in the header. If you’re interested in partnership or participating as a founding school in the program, contact us at education@takingitglobal.org!
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School gardens/farms
FFS should have gardens or farms directly associated with the school, locally ON campus, where students work with the land and their own food.
Food from the farm is used in the cafeteria. It's organic, healthy, local, seasonal, beautiful.
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The motivation of educaiton should be public!
The word 'education' inherits the spirit of real education. The Latin word 'ēducātiō ' (A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing) came from ēdūcō (“I educate, I train”) which is related to the homonym ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”) from ē- (“from, out of”) and dūcō (“I lead, I conduct”). So to lead, to contact, to train, to develop person should be first public minded that selfless. The education need to set up the mission that all students can overcome the selfishness! Selfishness is a roots of all conflict, unrest and suffering in…
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Schools should offer programs that become self sustainable after a period of time to encourage local teacher development and student base.
The WVS offers 400+ courses that encourage sustainability of its programs by involving students in teaching other students, so that after a while they can become self-sustaining and motivating. Has become very important in clean energy and sustainable living programs in helping communities improve their quality and standard of living.
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Online Connectivity between all schools of FFS.
My idea is very simple, As we can connect all the school through online connectivity, TIG can work on a common software which will help us to exchange the resources of each schools with the others...around the Globe.
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Helping young minds to understand the value of living without any boundaries in this new world
Sharing good things about different cultures. Giving students role models from all over the world not only from their own country. Helping them to find common things among them and people of other countries. Helping them to communicate with people from all over the world through video chats and conferences (if not possible to meet directly). Teach them to love common things but always respect the differences because nothing is good or bad, it is only the perception. Organize events(dress competitions, discussions, food festivals, art competitions, skits) and quiz about different cultures and traditions.
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Every child under six MUST have access to early childhood education
Almost 300 million children under six lack access to releasing their creativity, increase their skills as natural born researchers and explorers if we do not assure them access to an education that allows those forces to rise up.
We at STEM Clubs have started helping kids forge a path from the womb to the boardroom and no longer from cradle to jail. - www.stemicuglobal.com2 votes -
Global citizenship should include teaching our next generation that war does not "serve any nation" or it's people.
USA in particular, now ranks #88 in Global peace due to its ongoing and unsustainable practice of aggressive foreign policy, which has nothing in reality to do with protecting "freedom and security". It's about oil, arms sales, global "power", all drastically undermining the principals of environmental stewardship, student voice and basic human rights, and global citizenship. We need to stop extolling "virtue" over violence, weapons and killing. It's the number one factor driving shootings in places like an elementary school to begin with!
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Learning more about Africa through African students
There are many students around the world who don't know the true story about Africa. Thou their teachers teach them about Africa, they are still confused about the negative information the media gives about Africa. Having direct collaboration school programs with African schools through emails, penpals, social media, photos and Skype will let global students learn more about themselves and their culture thus learning the real truth.
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Learning is measured with an established tool such as "The Global Competence Matrix". Students take responsiblity. More than read/discusss
This has to more than a chapter-by-chapter exercise. There must be several elements that ask students to set up social networks with peers from other countries within a specified context so that the learning that takes place can be measured. Teacher sets up project, teacher guides, students do, students act.
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Good Education system.
putting a good education system with good quality that's easy to follow yet educational. training the students to follow it gradually, So students get used to it. then students will graduate from school with good language skills & education. not as if they learned nothing and only studied to pass exams then forget what they had learnt.
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Adressing Global Issues through Collaboration among Nations
Identify, understand, synthesize and evaluate the factors that cause ‘Stereotyping’ and through collaborative work of making this world a better place students and teachers will be able to overcome stereotyping and will work as one race for our beautiful world and for future generations.
Teachers can identify global issues and select one issue at a time and work on it for a period of one year. A platform can be set up for collaboration and a plan can be made for how to implement the strategies developed for making this world a better place as Together Everyone Achieves More!
Teachers…6 votes -
Perhaps one reliable, easly measurable indicator will be that students blog on a regular basis with peers from a dozen countries,
One reliable, easly quantifiable indicator of global citizenship in a future friendly school is to have students blogging on a regular basis with peers from a dozen countries, bringing in fresh news and brilliant ideas into the classroom which will undoubtedly enhance a set of skills and empower learner autonomy.
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Television show, podcasts, etc highlightling students in the student body from different ethnic/cultural background
Any school that has a television broadcasting capability can have an interview show with a student host , students from various countries and ethnic backgrounds, as well as , background pictures of the specific country being explored. It can be based on a travel show format.
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Academic integration
Academic integration should make a Future Friendly School. Academics has to with thoughts, knowledge and assimilation. The curricular syndrome in any school should have a universal standard procedure. Most African countries have imbibed the educational system of the europeans in the early days but now things have really changed.
By mean Academic Integration, the curriculum that operates in West Africa should correspond easily with the European or the British standard whereas what is obtainable is in both or other world area serve similar exchange programs, as a continued education system so far there are relevant evidences. requirements to back that…
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Diversity, understanding, and support for various students over the world.
A good school that can achieve the goals as a global citizen's school is a school that support the diverse of the students at school, providing them a good environment for study and interact to each other so that it will create the understanding between each other. Scholarship for foreign exchange student is also important in gathering various student from all over the world.
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Don't let school's canteen sells more food with styrofoam!
There are some schools in my country, especially my school, its canteen sells more food with styrofoam than food packed in healthy way. In fact, styrofoam has been the most dangerous litter because it contains a substance that can produce cancers virus. Besides, it is also the kind of litter that cannot be recycled for a very long time. And it makes the students hard to live in healthy and green way.
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Harness Intangible Cultural Heritage via Oral Traditions, Performing Arts, and Traditional Arts
Cultural heritage goes far beyond the walls of a historic fort, monument, or building; it is a lived expression passed on from generation to generation. By focusing on oral traditions, performing arts, and traditional crafts, youth can develop a greater appreciation for their own cultural heritage and cultural diversity at large. This in turn will allow youth to widen their cross-cultural understanding while strengthening their own cultural identity.
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The vulnreable and orpharnage children should be first consedered for scholarship
There are no simple solutions, no single intervention that can respond to the multiple challenges facing adolescents today. They need access to information, skills and services. They also need to feel SAFE, supported and connected to adults in their lives. Society has an obligation to shepherd its young people through their adolescent years and to treat than with respect and understanding. When it assumes these responsibilities, the benefits multiply in ways never imagined.3 votes -
A school Where Anyone and Every Student (inclcusive of Accessibilty f can Walk in and Still He/She is still in their Home Country or Domain!
A school Where Anyone and Every Student (inclusive of Accessibility f or Persons with Disability (PWD)) can Learn in and Still feel He/She is still in their Domain or Home Country; a Universal Curriculum
4 votes
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