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Challenging entitlement in the civics classroom

Challenging entitlement in the civics classroom. Mary.Enns@ocdsb.ca. What is “Entitlement”?. Introductions Small group brainstorming: “What is Entitlement?” “What does it look like?”. Teaching Citizenship & Community. Rights & responsibilities Levels of Citizens Levels 1-4 citizenship.

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Challenging entitlement in the civics classroom

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  1. Challenging entitlement in the civics classroom Mary.Enns@ocdsb.ca

  2. What is “Entitlement”? • Introductions • Small group brainstorming: • “What is Entitlement?” • “What does it look like?”

  3. Teaching Citizenship & Community • Rights & responsibilities • Levels of Citizens • Levels 1-4 citizenship

  4. Teaching Level 4 Citizenship • Starts with the self, moves to the community, then to the world. • Moves from Conflict Resolution (from personal level outwards) to Action (from local to global) to Social Justice. • Starts with me, the teacher.

  5. Engaging Activities for the Classroom • Before the transformational activities from • Cultivatingpeace.ca • Work on a safe space for everyone in the class: • Locate Invisible students • Challenge those who render others invisible • Picnic game • Get on the bus • Snowball throw • Pictionary • Roundtables

  6. Cultivatingpeace.ca • Download “Cultivating Peace in the 21st Century” • P.13: Lesson Overview • Lesson One: Message Match, group activity that explores the meaning of peace • Lesson Two: Causes of conflict, 3 short videos that have current event applications

  7. Cultivatingpeace.ca • Download “Taking Action” • Lesson One: “Taking Stock”

  8. Other Resources • Visit my social justice professional learning community wikispace and add your own links / resources to make it your own. • http://socialjusticeplc.wikispaces.com/

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