GE News

We're Ready!!

CHF is excited to start off the new school year with an enthusiastic and dedicated team. Our Global Educators and Lead Volunteers can’t wait to meet new teachers and students. Through CHF’s Global Educator program we are committed to helping students to gain a global perspective.

At CHF we understand how challenging and vital it is to engage students. Classes today are more diverse then they have ever been, making it increasingly important to get your students thinking about the world and their place in it. At CHF we believe that Knowledge + Empathy + Action= Global Citizen.

CHF is offering free guest speakers for classes across Canada! Teachers, parents and grandparents, are all booking CHF speakers students in their lives. Join in the action and start your students on the road of global citizenship today!!

To see a list of presentations available and to book a presentation today please click on the following link or visit us at www.chf-partners.ca/education/book-a-speaker.

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CHF is Back to School!

CHF is going back to school again this fall, bringing lessons learned on the ground around the world right into Canadian classrooms. For 20 years now, CHF has been teaching Canadian children and youth about how people live in developing countries and encouraging them to be engaged global citizens. The Global Education Program is provided for free and shows students how they can get involved and make the world a better place to live.

Looking for something to energize the children and youth in your life? Are you on a quest to make real life connections about their role in the world?

Designed specifically for educators, our resources have been developed using international development expertise to provide authentic and engaging material to help raise awareness in a more complex world, including lesson plans, classroom presentations and student engagement activities.

For more information and to download all our free resources please check out our website at chf-partners.ca.

New Lesson Unit

This fall, CHF is launching 10 new units for teachers, including our featured unit for September, Local to Global Environmental Changes: Beyond Disaster Relief.

As active members and leaders in the international development community CHF felt compelled to prepare a unit for teachers and students that takes them beyond the all to familiar media coverage of emergency disaster relief efforts. This new unit delves into how disasters affect developing countries, and how the right efforts can minimize damage.

These lessons, games and presentations are meant to provide children and youth with a complete picture of disaster relief by getting them to think more deeply about disasters. With this lesson unit, students will gain a better appreciation for and understanding of, the importance of pre-disaster preparedness, post disaster recovery and the linkages to global environmental changes.

For more information and to download all our free resources please check out our website.

Lead Volunteers Across Canada

The Global Education program is kicking off for the 2011-2012 school year in Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. Free educational resources including in-class visits are now available.

This community-run program will be led by five amazing Lead Volunteer Coordinators: Carmen Cheung (returning), Dayna Roberts (returning), Fely's Bowen, Marie Yan and Stephanie McAnany. These leaders will be training and coordinating over 75 new and returning Global Educator presenters. Find out about volunteering with us!

Want to be kept up-to-date with the latest resources available through the Global Education Program or gain access to more information about international development? Monthly ebulletins are sent out through the schools year.

To sign up for the next ebulletin of our Global Link for Teachers fillout the form.

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