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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Membership in The Global Citizen Initiative http://www.theglobalcitizensinitiative.org/
Membership in The Global Citizen Initiative http://www.theglobalcitizensinitiative.org/
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Students need to be critically aware of the impact that their life choices have on people everywhere in the world, including the local
The impact of everything we use/ purchase has an effect on both the environment and other people. What were the conditions that it was made under? Are they fair? If not, what are you supporting? Does it match your values, if not why do you have it? What is the environmental impact (water/carbon footprint) ? do you drive? or fly? what is your carbon footprint? learn to reduce it. what is your human footprint? It is crucial that we empower ourselves and understand the personal responsibility that we all have. Think and act Holistically.
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Include children in the design of their own schools, curriculum, and education.
Respect children's voice, opinions, ideas and perspectives. Acknowledge and respect their capacity to design their own education and learning environments.
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Schools and other education institutions should be guided by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most comprehensive and widely accepted global agreement on how children should be protected, provided to, and included within broader society. Any institution that has influence on the lives of children should be guided by a framework that respects and includes children's perspectives, opinions and ideas. It all begins with respecting human rights.
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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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Motivating teachers to give off their best to students
Teachers across the globe should be motivated as doctors and other professions. They must be given the necessary tools needed, with this even if posted to rural areas, they will feel happy to go there and teach.
Another aspect too is in-service training for teachers; They need to be trained on the job as new students with different perspectives enter in school year after year with it attendant wide range of sophistication and technology. If teachers are not abreast with changes in technology, they will always be undermined.
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flexible contextualized curricula
When we have flexibility on curricula from our context which will have global nonrecognition then students will have a charm for the program we offer.
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Gender Equality
The recent **** and utter insensitivity plus lack of empathy to the young woman's pain and humiliation in Delhi by the rapists (who after raping her inserted an iron rod into her which killed her) has prompted me to ask if this is worth teaching. Then there is female foeticide and dowry deaths and many women not being able to choose if they want to work outside the home or not. Don't know what exactly could be taught though.- perhaps they could be topics of debate between students.
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Group Discussions
A trained teacher’s input and guidance would be essential. The aim would be to develop both - speaking and listening skills. The teachers would have to ensure there is no squabbling, digging in, scoring points off each other.
Group discussions have huge benefits. For example they teach us to
gather relevant information present the information well, in the time allotted. focus on what others are saying understand other points of view and realise there are many answers (not just mine!) to a question.1 vote -
Being Able to Put Theory into Practice
Take the environment for example. They could learn to grow vegetables organically after visiting an organic farm. They could learn to cook and sell the produce, keep accounts and ensure the profits are partly ploughed back into the business. I do see one problem - what if some teachers or schools decide it is a very profitable venture and turn it into thinly disguised child labour for their own benefit?
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Communicate effectively, collaborate, create, investigate the world & their neighborhood, service learning, take action to solve problems
Students should be able to communicate effectively and collaborate with a variety of people - from peers to adults. They should be investigators - of the world, their country, their region, and their neighborhoods - to begin to see how we are all linked together and issues in one place affect another. They should learn through service - either community service, or internships about the world and how they can help others. They also need to think about ways to solve problems that exist now. They need to be empowered to not just think of these solutions but also take…
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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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Working on softer skills like: communication and dialogue, self esteem, tolerance to other ideas, management of emotions, self-awareness.
Working on softer skills like: communication and dialogue, self esteem, tolerance to other ideas, respect, empathy, management of emotions, self-awareness. They are not always taught at home, and in fact it would seem that they are actually discouraged by todays culture. However, they form the basic skills for human being s to understand each other and find common solutions.
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Global Citizenship to help students learn about different cultures as they really are not how they are perceived.
Many times we imagine how people live in certain countries by what we have read about in some article or seen in a picture. Global Citizenship can give us the opportunity to actually talk to someone from a certain country and learn from them directly as to how they really live and what there country is really like.
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Ex
Exchange values,ideas,knowledge,skills and techniques for the purpose of exposure to the global education system and have relationship with other schools in the world.
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The idea of togetherness and that the World is a big family
I believe the world is a global village and a school needs to develop global citizens.This would eventually lead to a feeling of togetherness and that the World is a big family.....For a peaceful co-existence....
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compulsory inclusion of vocational skill training for hing school student in sub-sahara of Africa
This will include inclusion in after high school curriculum as skill training before furthering for degrees in University. it will help reduce unemployment, help prepare the mind. thus should be certified.
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