for Classrooms and Schools
Resources under development, opportunities to collaborate.
Perspective Cards
We learn about others' perspectives through the stories they share. Worth teaching is developing collections of short stories on cards that exemplify a theme or concept that shows up across various cultures. Each story is genuine, taken from interviews with people who have had significant experiences crossing cultures, mainly coming or going from New Zealand. Some have follow-up video clips from the original interviews. There are discussion questions and tips for helping students identify the explicit and implicit perspectives in each story.
The first set is ready for pilot testing. If you'd like to help try it out for free, contact us.
Cultural Competence Program
We're currently developing a four-unit program for Cultural competence exploring the concepts of identity, heritage, stereotypes, cross-cultural communication, and privilege. It has a New Zealand focus, exploring our cultures at home as well as stories from travellers. This sits in a space between languages and the social sciences, as it was originally conceptualised to compliment language taster classes at an intermediate level. The finished product will be valuable as a whole program, or aspects could be interwoven into either language or social studies classes to deepen the global perspectives students engage with. In relation to New Zealand's curriculum refresh in social sciences, these units will connect to the Big Ideas regarding unity in diversity and the Practices of 'conceptual thinking' and 'identifying values and perspectives'.
If you'd like to help pilot certain elements or the whole program, contact us.
Partner and Member Schools
Resource development is a reflective cycle that depends on relationships with schools and teachers in order to understand current needs and create the tools to fill those gaps well.
We don't have specific membership plans, but so far some schools have:
- given special incentives for students to complete the learning experience "Becoming a Global Citizen" and received reduced rate for their students who are paying privately
- collaborated to record interviews with students and community members about crossing cultures and making a difference. The interviews serve both to help develop teaching resources by Worth Teaching, and to help further the cultural narrative of unity in diversity at the partner school.
If you'd like to explore a possible collaboration, get in touch and meet with Teryl Yogeeswaran.