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YEAR PLAN FOR TAG PROJECT

  • TAG eTwinning Project year plan (2015-2016)

    Expected Outcomes to keep in mind along the way:

    After a stage of awareness raising towards global issues, investigation on local heroes, choosing of an important issue to be addressed, the project will culminate in the celebration of the Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), in which participants will implement their planned actions. These actions can range from learning sessions about current social and environmental challenges to clean-up actions, exhibitions about local heroes, a festival to honour those heroes, nursing home visits, concerts, etc….

    GYSD is an international youth movement. It is designed to encourage youth to participate in community service and service-learning and to honour those who have contributed to their communities through voluntary commitment. GYSD 2016 will be will be April 15-17 followed by sharing a report in May (for more details: http://www.gysd.org/).

    1ST TERM

    PREPARATION STAGE (October-November)

    • Pupils introduce themselves by editing their profiles on the Twinspace and comment on each others’ profiles until 30th October.

    STAGE 1- Be inspired to make changes for good (16th November to the end of December)

    • Collaborative brainstorming “what is a hero” and online debate on Voicethread
    • Choose your personal hero(es)
    • Take part in the celebration of the Human Rights Day (10th December) in your school/community with an exhibition on the chosen heroes or an article on your personal heroes and share what you have done.

     

    2ND TERM

    STAGE 2: Get informed (January)-

                Pupils do some research and collect information on the issue(s) they will focus on

    STAGE 3: Start planning (January and February)

    • Each country team(s) will fill in a form to present their action plan’s timeline, objectives and strategy (The form will be shared in January)

    Each participating school can decide on the number of teams they will work with. You can either:

    Option1: work as a whole class team on ONE issue and design and implement ONE action plan to address that issue

    Option 2: or create Two teams in a class to address Two different issues and design and implement TWO action plans.

     

    STAGE 4: Collaborate (March)

    • Sharing experiences and knowledge on the issues identified and giving each other’s suggestions to improve their action plan;

     

         3rd TERM

    STAGE 5: Act (April)

    • Each team will edit their plan and share it on the GYSD webpage “Map it out” (
    • On GYS Day pupils will take action and keep a record of their action (video recording, Photography, logbook,  etc…)

    STAGE 6: Reflect and disseminate results (May and June)

    • Evaluating the project’s outcomes and telling the world about your experience

    Useful Resources:

    http://tig.phpwebhosting.com/themes/mdg/YouthMDG.pdf : The Youth and Millenium Development Goals (2015)

    http://www.tigweb.org/global-issues/intdays/: for International Days

    https://www.tigweb.org/tiged/resources.html and http://www.gysd.org/). The Global Youth Service Day where you can find resources to teach on the issues you choose and inspiration for your actions

    More resources will be provided to support your teaching on the topic.

    The project coordinator

    Maria Silva