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Peace and Global Education Workshops
The following global education workshops are available through the BCTF.
To
request these or other Social Justice workshops for a school-based, local, or
regional professional development day, or a School Union Representative
Training (SURT) day, please click on the “Book this Workshop” link below the
workshop description on the BCTF
Social Justice Workshops page.
Creating Cultures of Peace
(3 hours)
In line with the big ideas and core competencies of the new curriculum, this interactive workshop provides resources for teachers and their students to create peaceful learning communities, and to discuss current global realities. Activities will incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, discuss the effects of war and violence on children and youth, and the Canadian military's marketing campaign that specifically targets Aboriginal populations. Lesson sequences will be provided and explored surrounding the Palestine-Israel Conflict, and Olympic Truce, which was recently revived by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to emphasize the role sport can play in building a more peaceful world.
Global Education Bringing Global Perspectives into your Classroom(3 hours) Are you looking for new ways to energize how you teach existing units? Introducing a global perspective into your classroom can be challenging, but