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Leveraging Classroom Diversity & Teaching About Immigration 2/20/20(Non-PDS Schools Only)

Leveraging Classroom Diversity to Teach for Global Competence  and Teaching About Immigration and Refugees                                                                                                                          Target Audience:  K-12 teachers and administrators (All grades and subjects welcome!)      

Description:  As educators in the 21st century, we hear a lot about the need for students to develop global competence skills and values like critical thinking, communication, and empathy.  More and more global, national, and local frameworks are creating standards and structures to support, encourage, and even require schools and educators to teach cultural awareness and global competence. But global competence doesn’t always require passports and plane tickets! This interactive session will explore strategies and generate ideas for how to celebrate local diversity as a resource for building global competence and 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and empathy. Educators will walk away with ideas for teaching for global competence from within their own classrooms and communities. The second half of this workshop will focus on Teaching about Immigration and Refugees. This workshop will look in-depth at the issues around immigration, migration, asylum seeking, human rights and more. Through interactive activities, we will look define important vocabulary terms, explore a brief history of immigration in the US and look at our personal family migration stories to help place the current situation in deeper context.

Location: 1600 Valley Rd., Wayne, NJ 07470

Instructor : Hannah Weitzer, co-founder and partner, Seachange Collective
Dates : 02/20/20
Days : Weds
From : 9:30am - 12:30pm
Fee : $ 45.00
Course Number : E381A

Class is unavailable at this time please call 973-720-2354 for more information or other course options

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