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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Long term relationship with other schools, for the purposes of curriculum collaboration, student exchange, service learning, etc.
Global schools should strive to cultivate "sister school" relationships with 3-4 other schools in the world. These schools become like family, allowing deep curricular collaboration, student exchanges, service learning trips, etc. It's best if there are a variety of different types of global schools (rural vs. urban, developing countries vs. developed, Spanish vs. French vs. Swahili vs. Mandarin, etc.)
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Children from poor families should not be isolated from those in rich families and have opportunities to access IT equipment like computers
In kenya,i have seen this big problom.where kids cannot access IT eqiupments like computer.and are not given opportunity to choose their carreer path
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Creation of global online and offline education materials for rural poor communities
Basic reading and writing skills is the key to every education, no matter the class or age group, this should be accessible and affordable to all. To globalize education this is the basic concept that must be adopted by both government and non-government institutions, to brake the chain of poverty resource and materials must be provided for this basic skills to be acquired, especially in rural poor communities.
Literacy is not a luxury, illiteracy is a sickness84 votes -
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inclusion of therapist and or pschological counsellors.
guidance and counseling.In most cases schools are free especially in primary and secondary but the provision of mental health is seen mostly in my country as luxury without knowing its all in the state of mind better performance and understanding self otherwise its like
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Biological homes for independent living outside the city
construction technologies and alternative energy with their hands with minimal cost and new knowledge about the nature of http://meshart.blogspot.ru/2013/01/blog-post.html
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Sierra Club Explore Enjoy and Protect the Planet
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.
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Service projects for students to help them understand how others live around the globe and in their own back yard.
Most students don't get an opportunity to experience life in other cultures. Service projects are a great way to help teach compassion while gaining a better perspective on the true difference between wants and needs.
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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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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!
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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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Building clean and safe pit toilets in primary schools to prevent diarrheal diseases due to poor hygiene and sanitation practices in kids
Over 1800 children a day die from diarrheal disease due to lack of safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene. Over 2.5 billion people all over the world don’t have access to clean and safe toilets. As a result of this many illness which is a direct cause of poor sanitation arise affecting millions of people especially children of school going age. Many deaths related from severe diarrhea today kills a child in every 20 seconds making it the second most deathly disease in developing countries claiming lives more that HIV/AIDs, malaria and measles combined. The Making Toilets **** Again Project…
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