IB Community Theme | Sharing our humanity

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Teachers - welcome to your own area.

Here you will find:
• information and resources to help you plan for teaching and learning about global issues in the classroom.
• resources for professional inquiry.

If you wish to discuss issues relating to the community theme, then visit the forums. Here you can share your understandings, reflections and questions with other teachers in the same programme, and connect with other IB schools to develop collaborative projects.

Featured posts for teachers - selected by the site moderation team

Facing History and Ourselves

"Since 1976, Facing History has been engaging students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the choices they confront in their own lives."

from the Facing History and Ourselves website

Global Eye - earthquakes

Comparison of earthquakes in India and the USA in 2001. Encourages
students to consider why the human impact is different in the two
contexts.

Global Eye - Digital Divide - Primary

Activities to undertake on the computer, relating to communications and the uneven access to electronic communcations.

Victorial International Development Education Association - website for global citizenship

Website from this Canadian organisation, with resources for teachers
and students on a number of global issues. Case studies and approach
are North American, with a Canadian slant, but of interest and use much
more widely. Contains interesting facts and figures about North America
too!

American Forum for Global Education

This website (not updated for some years) gives some useful background information on addressing global issues in schools - particularly in the USA context.

Global Education Centre - New Zealand

This website provides some very useful teaching resources and fact sheets (for use by you, or with older students only) on a number of issues of the community theme: disasters, HIV/AIDS, sweatshops, terrorism, debt in the developing world. Also on environmental matters such as water, climate change.

There is a limited range of teaching activities, plus details of some resource kits (to buy)

Although developed for use in New Zealand, with New Zealand references, they are of much wider use.