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My name is Robyn. I am currently teaching 1st class. I am really interested in using space as a theme in the classroom and would love to make sure it is used at different class levels but with extension in each class. A space fact that I like is that On Mercury a day is twice as long as a year. I think this would be a good stimulus to teach about space and time.
Hello, I like your idea of organising professional development workshops . This would encourage collaboration and motivate teachers to teach about development education and the goals.
Encouraging the students to walk, cycle or use public transport to school is a great way to make the student aware of climate change. In a previous school we did walk on Wednesday which got everybody involved and encouraged the students to be active too! Which could integrate PE
Climate change is impacting everyone at the moment. The increase in storms, change in weather at different times of year, rain and floods have all been ways that my local area has been effected due to climate change. I also think it is evident when noticing the plants and trees, e.g. flowers blooming either late or early because of change in the weather. I reflected on this in a previous forum, but I have used the Lorax as a means to engage the students in discussions and conversations about climate change. My school also works towards green school flags. Therefore we are all very conscious of recycling, saving energy and caring for the environment.
This year we are working towards the marine flag and how we can help keep our sea life safe and clean. My colleague organised marine week for the school and we all also went out litter picking to clean up our environment.
Continuing our schools green flag. This is a great way to keep us all accountable, both students and staff. We can all work together towards the same goal.
Climate change committee: setting up a climate change committee in our school could tie in with the community. We could organise school litter picking, energy saving days, and invite speakers to the school.
Promote renewable energy: encourage the school to look for grants for solar panels, educate the students of the importance of renewable energy.
we could alsofit this into our whole school plan and incorporate it into our SSE.I like your idea of setting up a welcome cafe to celebrate diversity and intercultural exchange. It would be a nice way to involve the parents and others from the community too! I will certainly remember this on our next intercultural day!
After doing some research, I have found that there are a number of charities and organisations that do work for refugees in my community. Amnesty international is an organisation that I have always been interested in supporting.
I think amnesty international could be a good organisation to work with to engage my school in learning, fundraising and volunteering in a number of ways. I think it would be a good idea to use the lessons provided as a stimulus to teach the students in my school about migration and refugees. As I stated in a previous forum, I also think picture books can be used here as a school wide resource and there are so many gorgeous books that touch on the challenges for refugees in a sensitive way.
Each year we have an intercultural day in our school, this could be an opportunity to fundraise and to welcome some refugees into our school to see our lovely school, the different cultures we celebrate and possibly speak to some of the students about their situation.
I think it could be good as a staff to volunteer at an organisation like the Red Cross to give back some time, and show our students that we can all do something to help.
Hi Hilary, I agree with you completely. I also chose the global development goal of poverty. I like your idea of bringing awareness to the goverment. I think focusing on this goal could be a good way to tie in with the community and fundraise for both local and global charities.
The sustainable development goal I have chosen is 1, no poverty. I have chosen this goal as I feel it is very prevalent at the moment both globally and nationally. A number of students I have taught in the last number of years have been experiencing homelessness. This has had a large impact on them emotionally, socially and on their education.
The effects of poverty worldwide can be seen to have large effects on children. I believe it would be an important goal to teach our students about to allow them to identify issues globally but also might allow some of them to make connections to what is happening to other children. (This would need to be done mindfully of course)
I would do this through videos, group work and project work. A nice idea could be to organise a fundraiser schoolwide for a local charity and global charity. This could also tie in the community. My school holds an intercultural day each year, which we could tie into the fundraiser.
It is very disheartening to read that this is going on in lots of classrooms around Ireland, my own included. Hopefully following on from clearly structured lessons we will be able to make a difference for these children. We all want our children to feel included, welcome and safe in their learning environment.
I have observed a number of instances where gender stereotypes are present. One occasion that comes to mind, was when my students were talking about their favourite colours. A number of the students had said theirs and then one boy said he loved pink, another child responded saying pink is a girls colour. I was grateful that I was within ear shot, because I asked the students, is pink only for girls? This opened up a big discussion amongst the whole class. We talked about colours, clothes, toys and jobs and the students seemed to be really interested in it. I enjoyed watching the video where Anna was teaching using the lessons from plan international, and found the methodologies she used very helpful. I will be certain to use videos, pair and group work and project based work to help the students engage in gender stereotypes and how this can develop their citizenship education.
We could use this to integrate with our sphe curriculum, to engage with SSE. I will be certain to encourage others in my school to teach clear lessons on gender to encourage inclusion, development and kindness in the classroom.
I believe Developement education should play a vital role in the Irish curriculum. We have seen so many global issues arising time and time again and it is up to us as educators to help our students understand these global concerns. As the article states ‘a time of revolution, a time when there’s got to be a change.’ We are all responsible for helping to make this change, whether it is small or big. But one way that I see we can do this is through education. I have used the book ‘The Lorax’ to help my students understand global warming and climate change. I believe using books can help children get a deeper understanding of the 12 development goals. I would encourage my colleagues to teach their students about development education through picture books and I would happily offer to step into their classroom to teach about this too. The final line of the article really resonated with me and I hope we can work together as educators to create a ‘better future’
