Catharine Hannay and William Little wrote this post about their TESOL presentation. Thank you both very much for sharing this! And for anyone else who has materials they’d like to share, let me know. It was lovely meeting David at the TESOL convention, as well as several other teachers who are interested in social justice [...]
Entries Tagged as 'global issues activities'
TESOL 2012 Presentation – Teach Your Students to Save the World through Social Entrepreneurship
April 24th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: blog · global issues activities · global issues resources · poverty & wealth · teaching with games · TESOL 2012 · video games
TESOL 2012 Presentation – Offering Options: Activities That Raise Awareness of Local Environmental Resources
March 29th, 2012 · No Comments
For those who both were and were not able to attend my TESOL 2012 presentation, here are the materials I referred to. The overall focus of my presentation was using local environmental resources as a way to both raise student awareness of environmental issues and to offer them opportunities for positive action. One emphasis I [...]
Tags: blog · climate change · conferences · consumerism · global issues activities · greening an IEP · lesson plans · listening · reading · speaking · TESOL 2012 · the environment · visual prompts · vocabulary · writing
TESOL 2012 Convention – Activities Based on Local Environmental Resources
March 21st, 2012 · No Comments
At the TESOL 2012 Convention, I’ll be presenting some ideas for ESL/EFL activities based on local environmental resources. Let me know if you’re interested and I can fill you in on the details. It’ll be my first TESOL, and I’m looking forward to putting faces to some names. I’ll post my materials after the talk.
Tags: blog · conferences · global issues activities · greening an IEP · the environment
Metropolitan Nightmare by Stephen Vincent Benet
February 2nd, 2012 · 3 Comments
Here’s a neat poem from 1933. It would be great to use as part of a discussion about how the world has / has not changed over the last 75 years. It also reminds us that environmental concerns and dissatisfaction with modern industrial life are not new ideas. Plus, it kind of foreshadows climate change. [...]
Tags: blog · climate change · global issues activities · reading · the environment · writing
To My Old Master
January 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment
Letters of Note recently posted a letter from a freed slave to his former master. The former slave was living and working on Ohio, when his former master wrote to him asking him to return to work on his farm. His response is a spectacular blend of sincerity and sarcasm. In my experience, students are [...]
Tags: blog · child labor · global issues activities · human rights · poverty & wealth · reading
Why I’m Not Preparing My Students to Compete in the Global Marketplace
January 17th, 2012 · 4 Comments
It’s not ESL specific, but I found a lot of relevant ideas in McKay Jenkins’ recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, he argues against focusing on preparing students for competition in the global marketplace. Instead, he suggests helping students understand and explore the problems of the marketplace, problems that are becoming [...]
Tags: blog · climate change · consumerism · fair trade · finance · global issues activities · poverty & wealth · the environment
My Life as a Turkey
November 19th, 2011 · No Comments
My wife and I just watched a great documentary on PBS called My Life as a Turkey. It tells the story of naturalist and wildlife illustrator Joe Hutto and his experience as “mother” to a brood of wild turkeys. The video powerfully reveals the complex and sophisticated lives of wild turkeys. I think this should [...]
Tags: animal rights · blog · food and hunger · global issues activities · the environment · vegetarian / vegan · video · visual prompts
Slavery Footprint
November 9th, 2011 · 2 Comments
Slavery Footprint is a visually engaging survey that roughly determines how many slaves were involved in producing the goods we consume. It’s similar to carbon footprint calculators in terms of the questions it asks, asking about your home, electronics, diet, clothing and so on. On several of the questions, it allows you to really delve [...]
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World Population: 7 Billion
November 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments
NPR has a neat short video on how the world population has grown to reach 7 billion. It would be pretty understandable, even at lower levels, and it would work with a range of topics: population, poverty and wealth, food, consumption, etc. Thanks Krista
Tags: blog · global issues activities · population · video · visual prompts
Business Insider: A Ton of Charts and Graphs on Wealth Inequality
October 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Business Insider has a page that features a ton of different charts and graphs on wealth inequality. It would work great in conjunction with an activity on Occupy Wall Street. The graphs start off showing how unemployment is at an all-time high (since 1940), then they look at CEO pay and corporate profits. The graph [...]
Tags: blog · consumerism · finance · financial crisis (2008) · global issues activities · poverty & wealth · statistics · visual prompts