Teaching Global Issues

The Teaching Global Issues Project, delivered with funding assistance from The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), aims to support educators in their efforts to integrate global issues into their curriculum. These resources will help to support teachers from first introduction of global issues into the classroom, through to in depth analysis of issues. 

 The Essential Guide to Global Citizenship
This is an online resource about global citizenship, including case studies, lesson plans and ideas for taking action.

 Gender Equality: Whose Problem is it Anyways?
This resource engages students and teachers in the many complex themes around the issue of gender equality and the role it is playing in many countries around the world. The resource includes case studies, lesson plans at the beginning of each chapter which includes a guide for teachers on how to facilitate the lesson), along with a youth forum guide.

Education for All
A classroom ready guide for educators to help teach about access to education around the world. The resource includes case studies, lesson plans at the beginning of each chapter which includes a guide for teachers on how to facilitate the lesson).

Migrant Labour: Populations on the Move
This resource engages students and teachers in issues  around migrant labour, international development, and cooperation issues, equipping students with the tools and information to make a difference as global citizens. The resource includes case studies, lesson plans at the beginning of each chapter which includes a guide for teachers on how to facilitate the lesson), along with a youth forum guide.

Trade My Way: Tools of the Trade
Facilitators' guide and reading units explain the complexities of international trade, the people and ecosystems affected, and the power of youth as consumers to change the world for the better. Folder style, containing separate booklets.

Deceptive Beauty: A Look at the Global Flower Industry
This booklet encourages an appreciation of labour and environmental issues in the global flower industry, including trading conditions, health and safety of workers, use of pesticides, and strategies to support flower workers.

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Children’s Global Arts DVD

 

 

This DVD tells the story of the Children Global Arts project which started in 2003 with an exchange of artwork between children in Canada and children in war torn Afghanistan and Iraq based on the theme the ‘World We Want” and now includes arts exchanges with Canadian children and children in India, Chile, South Africa, Belize, Tanzania, Vietnam, Iran, and Nigeria.

 

The DVD features video footage of five lessons created and taught by Canadian teachers to develop Arts based exchanges with children in other countries around the world. The Children’s Global Arts project uses multiple forms of Arts (pictures, dance, drama, crafts, poetry, music, video clips) allowing children from a wide spectrum of cultures around the world to impart images and impressions of the “world we live in” and visions for “the world we want”. See project website for examples of children’s expressions from around the world – http://www.childrensglobalarts.ca.

 

With the support of CIDA Global Classroom Initiative the project has expanded enabling teachers to create Arts based program resources to develop ongoing global connections as part of their school programs.