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Safe, secure and affordable housing is essential for children’s wellbeing and development. In Ireland, many families are affected by the current housing crisis, with some children living in temporary accommodation or struggling to rent ot buy homes. This can impact children’s education, mental health and sense of security.
In my classroom, I would encourage pupils to explore what makes a community safe, welcoming and inclusive. Through project work, discussions, and stories, children could learn about the importance of housing as a basic human right and how everybody deserves a safe place to live. Pupils can develop their own ‘ideal community’ considering homes, schools, parks and infrastructure necessary.
This module can feed into our school’s SSE (School Self-Evaluation) by evaluating opportunities for pupils to learn about local communities through issues through SPHE, Geography and Green School’s initiatives. The school could also strengthen links with a chosen local charity in the community, particularly one for the homeless in which the could participate in awareness or fundraiserI think there have been a myriad of struggles in Ireland for people such as the housing crisis as one example and other fiscal and EU policies which have caused a lot of financial pressures on families and young children as a result have suffered as result. The ripple effects can be felt when families feel under pressure to provide for their children with high rents and housing polices that place undue pressure on hard pressed families. The trauma can definitely be felt in most DEIS classrooms across the country and non Deis also.
In younger classes programmes such as Bi Cinealta foster empathy and encouraging kindness and respect. In older classes I would encourage debate and discussion to foster critical thinking and questioning popular opinions and look to develop and foster critical thinking and a sense of community minded young people. Ij think children visiting old care homes, hospitals and even homeless charities may help to raise their awareness of how people are suffering in society. SSE whole school policies such as Bi Cinealta, and Incredible Years would be good policies to help children especially those with adverse childhood experiences to grow and develop in the school community.To be a global citizen, is to care. It is to empathise. This was the opening line of the conclusion in the article. I would foster empathy team building sports and inclusive events in my school. I would encourage debate and discussion among students to ensure they are active participants in their own school and learning. I would say that development education spans many facets of school life and as such should be brought to the forefront of our teaching and learning. I would ask students to prioritise their own goals in terms of equity and fairness in the school and perhaps provide or display thought provoking hardship stories and stories of children from less well off countries to illustrate comparisons in a real and meaningful way. Teaching children about politics and the voting system from a very young age may help with active citizenship and developing an understanding that every voice and every vote counts. I think debate and discussion for older students would be excellent to bring issues to the forefront of their debate.
I would encourage having and tending for a local garden or plot if possible and having children tend take care of and see the relationship of growing fruits and vegetables from ground to table and tending and caring for the plants and trees.
I think developing art and posters about the effects of climate change and bringing STEM into climate such as creating their own wind vanes and discussing and making materials used for climate measurements.
I would imagine debate and discussion would be excellent ways to foster discussion around rising sea levels globally and how to best use governmental resources to tackle these issues safely and in line with what is best economically and locally.
I would foster no lights or whiteboard whole school days as part of SEE to save money and electricity costs and have team class leaders measure these effects economically.
There are many organisations such as Unicef and Red Cross as examples of Development Education in our local communities. There are also legal services such as Women’s Aid and flac which help with legal and regulatory issues for refugees etc. providing assistance from legal to practical.I think sports and buddy culture in schools would really help children to integrate and sports is a fantastic opportunity to build communities of children looking past race colour and creed.
From an education and sse perspective I think Mulit cultural days celebrating food and cultures from around the world with parental involvement is a fantastic way to encourage diversity for all.
School quizzes and culture celebrations and language celebrations would also foster diversity in our schools.Having taught in primary and asd for over 15 years, I would endeavor to remove gender biases in play based teaching and methodologies. I would encourage individual preferences and also encourage children especially girls into STEM subjects from a young age. I would foster enquiry based learning for fun and creativity to develop. I would foster learning journals and interest questionnaires to foster their own creative talents and preferences.
From an SSE perspective, I would foster these learning logs digitally as part of stem and encourage digital storytelling as a form of self assessment. I would foster their own skills and creativity to help them be agents in their own lives and learning and to foster careers they are interested in as opposed to moving in to suit their specific parental preferences.
I would focus on sdg 4: Quality Education, particularly the gender inequalities that prevent regarding girls around the world from receiving an education. Girls have consistently been given the caregiver roles in poorer countries and seen as the least likely to attend school or college. Conflict zones and poorer communities are more likely to have lower female education participation.
What I would change in SEE and in class would be to sort of remove gender bias regarding play based learning and language learning and provide lots of reading materials of female as well as male role models in history inventors and such to inspire our young children to become trail blazers and pioneers reagrding their own gender and inspire confidence in their decisions.
I would focus on sdg 4: Quality Education, particularly the gender inequalities that prevent regarding girls around the world from receiving an education. Girls have consistently been given the caregiver roles in poorer countries and seen as the least likely to attend school or college. Conflict zones and poorer communities are more likely to have lower female education participation.
What I would change in SEE and in class would be to sort of remove gender bias regarding play based learning and language learning and provide lots of reading materials of female as well as male role models in history inventors and such to inspire our young children to become trailblazers and pioneers reagrding their own gender and inspire confidence in their decisions.
I enjoyed all these modules but I have seen that similar to Japanese principles moving away from testing to developing moral and empathic children seems to create more well rounded empathic children who are more responsible and caring.
I think that I would leave lots of toys of various types dispersed in a classroom for golden time so there is no female or male areas. I would also ensure that children were encouraged to be themselves despite gender roles. I would also champion the STEM subjects and encourage scratch and coding for all genders not gender specific. I would also encourage the arts subjects as these are very important for creative expression which are very important across all genders. Regarding the SSE process I would encourage STEM, robotics coding and lego across the curriculum aa I think stem and the arts are good ways to build a good overlap of gender specific roles and would encourage creativity and problem solving across the curriculum. I also think sports that are not gender specific mixing male and female teams for padel for example may be another way to bridge the gender gap.