Oxfam works to empower young people to be active Global Citizens. They promote education that helps young people understand the global issues that affect their lives and take action towards a more just and sustainable world.
Their teams in England, Scotland and Wales support teachers through our range of on-line resources, teacher training and professional development, and partnership work with a range of other organizations.
This platform was designed for students from 1st to 9th grade for public education in Costa Rica.Dr. Allen Quesada from the University of Costa Rica is the Head Director and Coordinator of design, production, and creation of CyberL@b. CyberL@b is been piloted in Costa Rican schools at this moment. The content of CyberL@b supports the syllabus of Costa Rican Ministry of Education.
If you have problems to assign homework or to communicate with Students´ parents, don't worry here you have some options to use the social media as much as you can.
This specific page lists some environmental human rights issues. This could aid in topic ideas for further research, individually or in groups. This group- The People's Movement for Human Rights Education- includes many other human rights issues in their webpage (children, education, housing, poverty, women, etc.) worth checking out. Also the "related links" section lists many additional education, social action and UN conference links as well.
TPRS Workshops and Reference Materials by Karen Rowan, Foreign Language Education through Total Physical Response Storytelling, Invented by Blaine Ray.
These pages give you access to all of Oxfam's free online teaching resources. Packed with lesson plans, assemblies, case studies, and whiteboard resources, these pages offer free materials you can use and download now. Tabs are presented below to find resources by age range, resource type, topic, curriculum area or country.
This site promotes training for teachers in the field of human rights. There is a Lesson Plan related to Identity, which I think is key to starting a process of social inclusion. Eventhough I don't teach children, this lesson could be adapted for adults.
Total Instructional Alignment is a must-have resource for any educator
envisioning ever higher levels of student success. This guide for teachers and administrators.
the Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education - 2007, here's my next "Best of.." list - the Web 2.0 applications which are most helpful to English Language Learners.
We have plenty to read in the field of education, however, reading for pleasure has lots of benefits for non-native speakers teachers and students. This is my favorite website to find all sorts of books to read for free!
It is a Page where we can find many activities to work in our classes. It 's important to teach our students about human rights in order to get a better world. Human rights are universal and we have to teach how some culture can affect these rights. This page includes human education activities, culture and changes activities and so on
These are ready-made lesson plans that may have to be adapted to a particular context.
A teacher might want to promote critical thinking skills in order to guide the students into discussing their ideas.
Here you can find an enormous amount of activities related to Second Language Acquisition. You can get in touch with hundreds of teachers from all over the world and share materials.
K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.