Rights Respecting Schools: Workshop Series 2012 - 2013
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Workshop 4 Teaching and Learning through a Rights Lens
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Five-Minute Reflection INSTRUCTIONS Welcome! Please circulate
the room and read the quote at each table. Then choose to sit at
the table with the quote you feel best reflects your educational
philosophy. Discuss with your tablemates: Why did you choose this
quote? How does this quote reflect your educational philosophy? How
does this quote connect education and the rights of children?
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Workshop 4: Teaching and Learning through a Rights Lens AGENDA
Activity 1: Five-Minute Reflection Activity 2: The How of Rights
Respecting Education Activity 3: Creating a Classroom Charter
Activity 4: Applying the How to What We Teach Activity 5: Good
Practices for Teaching and Learning
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What is a Rights Respecting Classroom? The rights respecting
classroom is a vibrant, safe and diverse community of learners with
a common ethos grounded in respect for all human and childrens
rights. This ethos is nurtured through the teaching of rights
respecting education.
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Rights Respecting Education Rights respecting education
combines talk with action. With rights respecting education: The
Convention is taken into consideration through both pedagogical
approaches and content. Students are engaged in the process of
democratic learning and participation. Essentially, childrens
rights are not only taught, but are recognized, respected and
modeled.
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The How of Rights Respecting Education The Strategy: Democratic
Pedagogy The Lens: Teaching the Five Global Concepts Through a
Childrens Rights Lens The Learning Process: The Cycle of
Learning
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The Strategy: Democratic Pedagogy
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The Lens: Global Concepts through Rights
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The Learning Process: Cycle of Learning
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RBM An Example of How Classroom Charters
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Rights, Respect and Responsibility Childrens rights are
unconditional they are not dependent upon responsibility Instead of
responsibility on charters, try respect for rights language
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RBM An Example of How Classroom Charters
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RBM An Example of How Classroom Charters
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Creating a Classroom Charter 1.Choose the six articles you
think most relate to students lives at school. 2.Determine how you
will word a commitment to each article in your classroom. Example:
In our classroom, we have the right to play. 3. Determine how you
will demonstrate a commitment to respect each article in your
classroom. Example: We respect the right to play for ourselves and
for others, by playing fairly and safely. 4.Decide on a design for
the charter. Have everyone sign it. Revisit it throughout the
year.
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Teaching and Learning in Rights Respecting Schools Benchmark 13
Teaching staff model rights in their classroom by adopting
participatory teaching and evaluation methods.
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Teaching and Learning in Rights Respecting Schools Benchmark 14
Teachers give students opportunities to make choices in their
learning and evaluation methods, within the framework of the
required curriculum, so that curriculum requirements and students
interests and concerns are met.
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Teaching and Learning in Rights Respecting Schools Benchmark 15
Conflicts between students, and between students and adults, are
resolved with rights-consistent decisions, policies, and classroom
management practices.
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Teaching and Learning in Rights Respecting Schools Benchmark 16
Teachers cultivate a culture of respect in their classrooms by
adopting a class charter that incorporates the rights of children.
Barrhaven Elementary School Ontario
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Teaching and Learning in Rights Respecting Schools Benchmark 17
Students have opportunities to give constructive feedback to their
teachers with regards to the quality of teaching and learning,
assessment, and evaluation methods.
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The How of Rights Respecting Education Discuss: In what ways is
this pedagogical framework in line with your educational philosophy
and practice? In what ways does this pedagogical framework
challenge your assumptions about teaching, about children and about
schooling? What challenges can you anticipate with fully
implementing this pedagogical approach? How would you respond to
these challenges?
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The What of Rights Respecting Education
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Group Work Instructions Look first at your Group Instructions
page Ensure you have all the necessary materials You have 15 20
minutes for the tasks Designate someone to share the highlights
from your discussion
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RRS Action Plan: Our Roadmap What is being done? What do we
need to do next? CRT completes RRS Action Plan Our school has a
roadmap for our future
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Good Practices for Teaching and Learning through a Rights Lens
Work together as a group to determine which strategies would work
best to meet your assigned benchmark. Create this 3-columned chart
StrategyResourcesTimeline Activities the school will undertake.
People resource, budget and materials needed to undertake
activities. Timing of year, duration of time needed to accomplish
the activities.
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Take Away Resource For Everyone Strategies for Rights
Respecting Educators Describes strategies for upholding articles of
the Convention Printed handout
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Take Away Resource For Staff/Students Classroom Charters
Outlines a clear process for developing a democratically elected
and envisioned student council Available for download on
rightsrespectingschools.ca
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Take Away Resource For Everyone Books for Rights Respecting
Educators This booklist includes childrens books and novels
suitable for exploring topics related to childrens rights. Suitable
for use inside and outside the classroom. Available for download on
rightsrespectingschools.ca
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Take Away Resource For Staff/Students Energizers These
participatory and engaging energizer activities teach about
childrens rights as well as skills and concepts that encourage a
rights respecting classroom culture. Available for download on
rightsrespectingschools.ca
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Take Away Resource For Parents/Staff The Danger of a Single
Story Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found
her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a
single story about another person or country, we risk a critical
misunderstanding. Available for download at
ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie
_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html