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CPD activity: Icebreakers
From the Teaching about Distant Localities online
resource
Catch the World!
Aims:
To break the ice socially.
To illustrate interdependence.
What to do:
You will need an inflatable globe.
Throw and inflatable globe to a participant. Ask them to say their
name and where they are from (if they are from different schools).
They should point to one place on the globe and say one connection
which they feel they have with it - teachers may have visited the
place or received a postcard from the area (tourism), or perhaps
they have enjoyed food the from the country (trade), or they may
have watched a television programme or heard music from the country
recently. Participants then throw the globe on to someone else until
everyone has had a chance to say something and a web of connections
has emerged.
Discussion points:
This activity could lead on to a more general discussion of the
links between the teachers' own local areas and the localities in
the South, highlighting the issues of interdependence.
Globingo for grown-ups!
Aims:
To break the ice socially.
To introduce topics that may be covered in locality studies.
To illustrate interdependence.
What to do:
You will need a Globingo for grown-ups
card for each participant.
Provide each teacher with a Globingo card. Participants then circulate,
finding different people to fill in each of the boxes.
This activity will identify some of the ideas and attitudes which
teachers already hold about the study of localities in the South.
Some answers may contradict each other (for example, A and F, A
and I). This provides a useful starting point for discussion.
Discussion points:
A debriefing session might cover the value of making links between
a locality in the South and pupils' own localities; the need to
balance information provision with work on attitudes and values;
the importance of building up empathy with people who live in distant
localities.
This session can be used as part of an assessment at the end of
the course when participants revisit their own answers to these
questions. It may be helpful to discuss how their opinions have
been reinforced, modified or changed.
From the Teaching about Distant Localities online
resource
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