Education Services - Workshops for schools

Global Focus Aotearoa offers a variety of free workshops for teachers and pre-service teachers mainly through Colleges of Education, Teacher Education Centres, Teacher Refresher Course Committee and Teachers Associations.

 

Workshops are fun, interactive, useful, and provide teachers with a range of innovative classroom activities.  Participants trial some of the activities in order to enhance understanding of the issues, as well as what it feels like to be on the side of 'learner'. The main themes of the workshops we are currently running are explained below. Your local subject association can contact us for a workshop on a particular topic or level. If you are interested in having us run a workshop on a Global Education-related theme, please contact us.

 

Teaching with a Global Perspective

We work with participants to develop an understanding of how to teach within the Aotearoa New Zealand curriculum with a global perspective. Our workshops link global issues with particular topics. These topics include refugees in Aotearoa NZ and globally, exploring fair and free trade, enquiring into the effects of globalisation and what it means to be a global citizen.

 What do we offer?

  • A skilled facilitator
  • Workshops of 1 to 2 hours
  • A resource folder (for up to 30 participants)
  • A selection of relevant information and resources (over 30 participants).

The NZ curriculum within our workshops

The curriculum has a vision for our students to be confident, connected, actively involved lifelong learners. Global education helps teachers engage their students in a critical manner, moving them beyond just knowing facts to understanding more about their role in their communities and the world, encouraging the practical workings of this vision for our students. We incorporate the key competencies of the curriculum and refer to the Best Evidence Synthesis for Effective Pedagogy in the social sciences.

 

Disparities in development

This workshop is based around our CD Rom
resource, Global Disparities and includes
updated material and new ideas and activities
for teaching this topic.

Global citizenship

How do we as citizens influence the processes
of globalisation and our local scene? We all
have rights and obligations and this workshop
has a closer look at these. We also run
workshops on globalisation issues                         

Global education

This workshop examines how a global
education perspective can enhance classroom
teaching.

Media

Our lives are saturated with the media –
television, radio, newspapers and the internet.
This workshop explores the impact of global
media on young people and provides teachers
with practical ways to apply media literacy in
the curriculum.

Poverty

The poverty workshop looks at the very real
causes and solutions of relative and absolute
poverty all over the world and provides ideas
about how this topic can be comprehensively
taught in the social sciences.

 

 

Resistance movements

This workshop explores concepts such as
human rights, power and organisation, and
looks at how students can understand the
means by which individuals and communities
seek to change their situations. Based on the
CD Rom Resistance.

Sustainable development

The word sustainable is very trendy, but what
does it really mean? This workshop takes a
more holistic approach to this topic which
teachers will find challenging and very relevant.
It provides teachers with practical activities to
engage students in learning about sustainability.

Tourism

The tourism industry is one of the largest in
the world, but it is facing huge challenges. This
workshop covers the issues of climate change,
responsible tourism, cultural tourism and more.

Urbanisation

This workshop brings teachers up-to-date with
the latest statistics, issues and case studies
that concern the rapid urbanisation of the
world. Useful maps, power points and activities
accompany this workshop.

Refugees

Why do people become refugees and who
decides what happens to them? This workshop
provides ideas for teaching about refugees
from a global and Aotearoa NZ perspective.