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 Teacher Zone - e-Bulletin, no. 2
e-Bulletin, no. 2
2006-11-29
Global Citizenship 101 - A Newsletter for Teachers who Want to Move their World
Butterfly 208 Update
Youth Speakers Program
Move Your World
CODE’s Project Love
Jeunes reporters sans frontières
Plan your school year
Interested in…
Educational Resources
Global Citizenship 101 is an education newsletter informing teachers about global issues, current global education events and new educational resources. We are always looking for new items to feature in our newsletter and on the Teacher Zone web Site. If you have something of interest, please contact us.
 butterfly 208 contest – 2005-2006 Top Teacher!
Joseph Skuce with a youth during
the trip in Kenya
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Congratulations to Joseph Skuce, from Colonel By Secondary School, who won the Top Teacher prize for the second year in a row!
Joe Skuce is a Visual Arts and Technology teacher with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, and a strong advocate of global citizenship. A professional photographer and musician, Joe has traveled extensively and worked with youth for over 11 years in local and international contexts, facilitating cross-cultural peace education. While living in Santiago, Chile for two years, Joe taught kindergarten and second grade while continuing his career as an artist. Joe won the Top Teacher award in 2005 and traveled to Tanzania with the other contest winners.
"We were more than guests. I was truly humbled by Stella [housemother at the WEMA orphanage in Kenya] who explained that we are all people and we are not so different, and that everybody should be treated like family." - Joe Skuce about the trip to Kenya in August 2006.
butterfly 208 contest will return next school year
After five years of amazing flaps, the butterfly 208 contest will be on hiatus during the 2006-2007 school year. During this period, the program will undergo a thorough evaluation, allowing it to re-emerge as a dazzling new butterfly for the 2007-2008 school year.
Until then, we invite you to continue encouraging your students to keep themselves informed on global issues and to express their visions for a better world in new and creative ways. Organize a butterfly 208 contest in your school; encourage your students to organize their own bp208 club; have a speaker visit your classroom; arrange and present a play… Visit the butterfly 208 website for educational resources and ideas on how to integrate butterfly 208 into your curriculum. Update us on your projects and activities and they could be featured on our website! Contact us.
Youth Speakers Program
“What a wonderful experience the students and I had! I can't thank you enough for this experience. Stéphanie was wonderful with the students. She was dynamic, fun and most of all, down to earth as well as different. Conversation was easy with her and the students were all ears. For once, the course wasn't long enough to answer all of the questions…”
Lucie Felteau, École secondaire Wilfrid-Léger, Waterloo, QC,
who invited our youth speaker Stéphanie Rajotte to visit her classroom.
"The presentation was very interesting and informative. Beatrice is an excellent presenter. She brings a unique element from CIDA through her personal experiences abroad and heart-warming stories. Thank you for bringing this eye-opening experience on global awareness to our students."
Evelyn Argue, teacher at Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Calgary, AB,
talking about our youth speaker Beatrice Du Prey.
If you would like to have a speaker visit your class and share his/her international development experience with your students, please contact us.
Kourosh, Marie and Chaminda,
three BP208 contest winners
holding two HIV positive
9 year old Tanzanian girls.
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Move Your World is the emotional and eye-opening story of three Canadian teens, grand prize winners in CIDA’s butterfly 208 contest, who made the journey of a lifetime to Tanzania in east Africa. There, they witness the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS on children and the remarkable ways Tanzanians are taking control of their lives. It’s a story that will move your world, too.
This one-hour film, produced by Lalita Krishna from InSync Video and supported by CIDA’s Development Information Program, won the Audience Choice Award at this year’s Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, which took place in April 2006. It also won the Chris Award at the Columbus International Film Festival in Columbus, Ohio and has been screened at numerous festivals. The film was broadcast on TV Ontario in August 2006 and also at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
To order a copy, please contact:
In Sync Video
24 Ryerson Avenue, Unit 206
Toronto, ON, M5T 2P3
Tel.: 416-367-0330 / insyncvideo@insyncvideo.ca
CODE’s Project Love
Elementary students
at Alta Vista Public School, Ottawa,
assembling Project Love kits
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CODE's Project Love is an opportunity for your students to be active global citizens by sending much-needed educational materials to students and teachers in developing countries. The program talks to young people about international development in terms they can understand, and gives them a hands-on activity of assembling Project Love kits of basic school supplies to assist their peers in developing countries.
For more information, visit the CODE’S Project Love web Site or telephone
1 800 661-2633
Jeunes reporters sans frontières
A series of 11 programs each 30 minutes long on international cooperation produced in different countries by 18 teenagers aged 12 to 18 years old, with support from a professional team. The series is for youth from 12 to 18 years of age and for the general public. The programs present international cooperation projects and the close relationships between people from here and people from developing countries.
To order (available in French only), please contact:
Plan Nagua
2350, du Colisée Ave, Building A, Office 06
Québec (Quebec) GIL 5A1
info@plannagua.qc.ca
Plan your school year
| Oct. 17 | International Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
| Oct. 31 | National UNICEF Day |
| Nov. 20 | Universal Children’s Day |
| Dec. 1 | World AIDS Day |
| Dec. 10 | Human Rights Day |
| Feb. 4-10 | International Development Week (IDW) |
| March 8 | International Women’s Day |
| March 22 | World Water Day |
| April 7 | World Health Day |
| April 22 | Earth Day |
| June 5 | World Environment Day |
| Aug. 12 | International Youth Day |
Check out the Teacher Zone Site for articles and other information that can help you mark these days in the classroom.
Interested in…
… teaching overseas?
Project Overseas is a joint endeavor by the Canadian Teachers' Federation and its members designed to give professional assistance to fellow teachers in developing countries.
With financial assistance from the Canadian Teachers' Federation, provincial and territorial teacher organizations that are members of CTF, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Wild Rose Foundation, as many as 60 volunteers deliver in-service programs in approximately 15 countries each summer. For more information on how to apply, visit the Project Overseas Website.
… organizing an overseas project with your students?
Canada World Youth’s (CWY) Global Learner Program gives young people the opportunity to experience a brief but intense exchange program in another country. Representatives from high schools, colleges, universities, or youth groups who are interested in organizing overseas projects with the help and expertise of Canada World Youth, are encouraged to contact the nearest CWY regional office. For more information, visit their website.
Educational Resources
The following resources have been designed within the context of provincial and territorial curricula, and are for teachers who want to help their students understand the concepts of international development, social and global responsibility, as well as to stimulate their critical-thinking capacities. They have been developed by partners with the support of CIDA and are available online through CIDA’s Global Classroom Resource Centre.
Becoming the Change We Want to See
This selection of online resources, produced by the Society for Safe And Caring Schools and Communities (SACSC), includes classroom-ready resources for grades 3 to 12 with links to the Alberta curriculum, on topics that include: children's rights; daily life in developing countries; media analysis of stories on developing country issues; consumerism and ecological impact; Millennium Development Goals; what Canadians NGOs are doing overseas; HIV/AIDS; and globalization.
Levels: Grades 3 to 12
Links to curriculum: language arts, social science, science or mathematics
Region: Alberta
Link to the resource
Monde en Tête
Monde en Tête is an education project encouraging togetherness and citizenship. The Internet site offers 43 free pedagogical activities to teachers, parents, and other parties participating in the education of children and young people at the elementary and secondary levels. The pedagogical activities of Monde en Tête develop various aspects of democracy, peace, cooperation, and human rights. The Monde en Tête project involves three partners: the Canadian International Development Agency, the Oeuvres du Cardinal Léger, and the Commission scolaire de Montréal.
Levels: Elementary and Secondary
Links to curriculum: Elementary (Civics, French, Social Studies); Secondary (Geography, History, Civics, French)
Region: Quebec
Link to the resource (French only)
Le monde à table... J'y mets mon grain de sel !
Produced by the Chaire de recherche du Canada en éducation relative à l’environnement de l’UQAM, this project consists of a role playing game accompanied by 10 pedagogical activities that help students to better understand global issues and the impact what they eat makes on their health, the environment, fair trade, and international development.
Levels: Grades 5 and 6
Links to curriculum: Languages, Mathematics and Technology, Social Studies, Civics, and Arts
Region: Quebec
Link to the resource (French only)
Wildfire Dance Theatre
Wildfire Dance Theatre is a youth-troupe based in Stratford, Ontario that delivers powerful performances in schools across Canada, which are designed to increase Canadian youths’ understanding of international development issues, such as gender equality, poverty, racism and AIDS. The organization also offers educators additional resource materials that complement the performances.
Levels: Grades 10 to 12, but can be adapted to lower grades
Links to curriculum: Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Studies, Political Studies
Region: Across Canada
Link to the resource
Understanding Human Rights in Afghanistan: Canadian Students as Global Citizens
This educational resource kit, produced by Canadian Women for Women of Afghanistan, challenges Canadian students to recognize their roles and responsibilities for securing and protecting the rights of women and children worldwide by focusing on the lives of Afghan women and their families. The kit includes a resource booklet, Power Point slides, suggestions for a question and answer session, an interactive role-playing game and lesson plans with curriculum connections.
Levels: Grades 4 to 12
Links to curriculum: Social studies; human rights, needs assessment, culture, government, communication, global concern and responsibility, citizenship.
Region: Alberta
Link to the resource
World Peace Forum 2006 – Student Leadership Initiative
The Peace Leadership Curriculum Kit, produced by YouLead (formally the Youth Millennium Project) in partnership with University of British Columbia researchers, helps youth explore the concept of peace and encourages students to imagine how they can make a difference on a global level by learning about international development and what they can do to have a positive impact on the world. This resource kit includes four modules of lesson plans, adaptable for different grade levels and linked to Canadian provincial standards for social studies in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario.
Levels: Grades 4-7 and 8-10
Links to curriculum: Social studies
Region: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Ontario
Link to the resource (must become a member (free) of the site to view resources.)
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