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Teachers Training: Beyond the Curriculum. Religious Freedom and Educational Rights
Nov
7

Teachers Training: Beyond the Curriculum. Religious Freedom and Educational Rights

Whether you believe in a higher power, have a spirituality or not, everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Join us next Monday to learn what these freedoms are and how we can maintain their protection. With the power of education and teaching tolerance, we will be able to envision and work towards a more tolerant world.

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Teachers Training: Social Rights — Health, Women, Child
Oct
31

Teachers Training: Social Rights — Health, Women, Child

The concept of human rights today is shared globally and as such forms a basis for the international community of states, international organizations and social movements, all of which regard themselves as members of international society. Let's find out why and discuss the reasons why social rights are a crucial topic and what our role is as educators to communicate this information to impact our own communities.

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Teachers Training: Economic Rights — Freedom from Poverty, Work Rights
Oct
24

Teachers Training: Economic Rights — Freedom from Poverty, Work Rights

What is the best way to protect our choice of where we work, what profession we choose, fair wages, limitation of working hours, and safe and healthy working conditions? To learn about them, of course! This is the first step to ensure our human economic rights are protected. Join us on Monday to discuss what economic rights are exactly and what we can do besides learning about them to protect them.

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Teachers Training: Civil Rights — Law & Fair Trial
Oct
17

Teachers Training: Civil Rights — Law & Fair Trial

The right to vote, a fair trial, government services, public education, and using public facilities are examples of civil rights ensured to all Americans by law. To make sure our rights and our future generation's rights are protected, we must teach ourselves and our students about them! Let's learn about how we can teach our students about these topics to keep them informed and safe.

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Teachers Training: Civil Rights — Law & Fair Trial
Oct
10

Teachers Training: Civil Rights — Law & Fair Trial

The right to vote, a fair trial, government services, public education, and using public facilities are examples of civil rights ensured to all Americans by law. To make sure our rights and our future generation's rights are protected, we must teach ourselves and our students about them! Let's learn about how we can teach our students about these topics to keep them informed and safe.

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Teachers Training: Beyond the Curriculum. Religious Freedom and Educational Rights
Oct
7

Teachers Training: Beyond the Curriculum. Religious Freedom and Educational Rights

Whether you believe in a higher power, have a spirituality or not, everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Join us next Monday to learn what these freedoms are and how we can maintain their protection. With the power of education and teaching tolerance, we will be able to envision and work towards a more tolerant world.

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Teachers Training: Beyond the Curriculum. Intro to Freedom & Non-Discrimination
Sep
19

Teachers Training: Beyond the Curriculum. Intro to Freedom & Non-Discrimination

Join America House Kyiv for a teacher training on the topic of Freedom & Non-Discrimination, and learn the basics of human rights education. Beyond the Curriculum is a continuation of teacher training courses from America House Kyiv. This course has been created in the hopes of being a starting point for understanding human rights and human wrongs, for training future trainers and for opening a discussion forum for inter-cultural exchange and awareness.

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Education in Emergencies: We're all in this Together & Building a Better World
Aug
1

Education in Emergencies: We're all in this Together & Building a Better World

Join America House Kyiv Education in Emergencies this week for our final session! We will be wrapping up this course by discussing the SEE learning content from the previous weeks and how to integrate the lessons we learned in our future educational group environments. We will be practicing answering the capstone questionnaire together before completing it individually.

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Education in Emergencies: Compassion for Self and Others
Jul
25

Education in Emergencies: Compassion for Self and Others

If students are able to understand others’ emotions and behaviors in context, they will be able to empathize with others better. This in turn can lead to feeling more connected with others, and thus less isolated and lonely. Moreover, the ability to understand others better and cultivate a caring attitude towards others parallels the same process of understanding and caring for themselves better. Join us this week to learn all about it!

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Education in Emergencies: Learning About and From one Another
Jul
18

Education in Emergencies: Learning About and From one Another

"Education in Emergencies" is a virtual program to provide Ukrainian educators with the necessary skills and tools for virtual and in-person teaching during wartime and crisis situations. Based on the materials developed throughout the "Education in Emergencies" workshop series, the program will provide participants with a safe space to exchange ideas and experiences while learning new methods.

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Education in Emergencies: Navigating Emotions
Jul
4

Education in Emergencies: Navigating Emotions

Understanding emotions can be very empowering for us. We experience emotions all the time, yet often may not understand what is happening inside ourselves. Learning about emotions can make these experiences less unfamiliar and eventually easier to manage. Join us on Monday to learn about how we can become more knowledgable about our emotions and in turn be more aware of them as well as our students' emotions in the classroom.

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Education in Emergencies: Strengthening Attention and Self-Awareness
Jun
27

Education in Emergencies: Strengthening Attention and Self-Awareness

Do you find it difficult to focus your attention when there are so many things going around you? Attention training has numerous benefits for us and our students. Join us this week to learn how attention is not cultivated through force of will, but by repeatedly and gently cultivating opportunities for practice, just like any other skill.

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Education in Emergencies: Building Resistance
Jun
20

Education in Emergencies: Building Resistance

Are individuals born resistant, or is it something that is learned? If you are interested in finding out the answer to this question, join English Language Resident, Meagan, to discuss and learn! We can learn how to become more resilient and most importantly, how we can teach this to our students and communities. We hope to see you there!

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