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EIU Best Practices 2021: Reinforcing GCED Virtually; the AFS Effect+ for the Classroom, a Case from Brazil, Colombia, and New Zealand (EIU Best Practices Series; no.56) Year of publication: 2021 Author: Ana Carolina Cassiano Corporate author: APCEIU This monograph is one of APCEIU's EIU Best Practices Series, which aims to encourage educators, scholars, and activists to implement and share local initiatives on EIU. The Series No.56 introduces ‘the AFS Effect+ for the Classroom Programme’ which is launched in September 2020. The programme has engaged 150+ high-school teachers from Brazil, Colombia, and New Zealand who completed 20 hours of virtual teacher training, collaborated virtually with each other and piloted activities developed by AFS with their classrooms, reaching over 2,500 students. As a result of the programme, the AFS Effect+ for the Classroom: Toolkit for Educators is now available to teachers worldwide to use as a resource for teaching Active Global Citizenship & the SDGs for high school students. The toolkit is currently available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and being disseminated through AFS Network Organizations which are present in 50+ countries.
2022 Youth Leaders’ Mentorship & Local GCED Projects: Activity Report Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: APCEIU This report summarizes 15 GCED projects implemented in different parts of the world by the alumni of APCEIU’s Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED in 2022. Ranging from community advocacy for global citizenship to girls’ empowerment projects, 15 GCED initiatives have been taken by the team of 15 young leaders in their own communities in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. APCEIU offers GCED training programmes targeting youth leaders around the globe to encourage them to achieve the SDGs through global citizenship and GCED. Since 2015, the Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED has been held every year in the Republic of Korea, inviting 50 young global leaders to take part in an intensive training programme where they share their actions, deepen their knowledge on global/local issues, enhance their motivation to take actions for a change, and establish the young leaders’ network on GCED. Since 2021, it has been shifted to a comprehensive training programme composed of online training workshops, mentorship, and local project implementation.
2023 Youth Leaders' Mentorship & Local GCED Project: Activity Report Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: APCEIU This report summarizes 10 GCED projects implemented in different parts of the world by the alumni of APCEIU’s Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED in 2023. Ranging from community advocacy for global citizenship to youth-led campaign projects, 10 GCED initiatives have been taken by 10 young leaders in their own communities in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. APCEIU offers GCED training programmes targeting youth leaders around the globe to encourage them to achieve the SDGs through global citizenship and GCED. Since 2015, the Youth Leadership Workshop on GCED has been held every year in the Republic of Korea, inviting 50 young global leaders to take part in an intensive training programme where they share their actions, deepen their knowledge on global/local issues, enhance their motivation to take actions for a change, and establish the young leaders’ network on GCED. Since 2021, it has been shifted to a comprehensive training programme composed of online training workshops, mentorship, and local project implementation.
Teachers: changing lives (The UNESCO Courier no. 4, October-December 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UNESCO Certainly, everyone recognizes the key role teachers play. On a personal level, we can all name at least one teacher who made a difference – sometimes to such an extent that it redirected our whole lives. At the international level, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Goal 4 in particular, recognize the importance of teachers in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Agenda by 2030. Yet, the profession is being undermined. The development of cognitive neuroscience and the many applications of new technologies in the field of education are forcing the profession to adapt and reinvent itself.
Ces profs qui changent le monde (Le Courrier de l'UNESCO 4, octobre-décembre 2019) Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO) Certes, tout le monde reconnaît le rôle clé que jouent les enseignants. À titre personnel, chacun peut citer le nom d’au moins un professeur qui a compté, parfois au point de réorienter une vie entière. Sur le plan international, les Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) des Nations Unies, en particulier l’Objectif no 4, reconnaissent l’importance des enseignants dans la mise en œuvre du Programme de développement durable à l’horizon 2030. Pourtant, la profession est mise à mal. Le développement des neurosciences cognitives, les multiples applications des nouvelles technologies dans le domaine de l’éducation obligent la profession à s’adapter, se réinventer. 