The L2C Webinar Series during School Closures
During the past weeks, L2C has held a series of webinars addressing challenges presented by COVID-19.Today, we share some highlights from "Empathy as a resource - finding and giving support during the COVID-19”, hosted by Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard with guest speaker and school psychologist Patricia Garouste.
International e-Conference: Promoting European values in the time of social distancing
International e-Conference: Promoting European values in the time of social distancing
Facing ‘Fake News’ and Propaganda through Online Cooperative Learning
How to create inclusive learning spaces in online settings through Cooperative Learning principles and how to face 'fake news' - Another L2C webinar on Friday 24 April between 18:00 and 19:15 CET.
Using Platforms Students Like
An extract of our webinar 'Tips and tools for teaching online during COVID school closures" held on March 20 2020. Audrey Cheynut talks about how to create a lesson using only WhatsApp. Simple, fun, and cooperative!
The 5S Infographic
Authentic and meaningful recommendations for teachers challenged by COVID-19. Feel free to share.
How to get organised for online teaching
In this article, we give you a few tips for a constructive cooperative online discussion with your colleagues as well as an overview of a few online tools that you may find useful in adjusting your teaching to the COVID-19 situation.
Cards for Democracy Activity Series: Where do I stand?
The Cards for Democracy Series proposes a set of educational activities for teaching, training and coaching events.
The Conversation Series: Resources to Co-construct Resiliency
For Patricia, trauma is a bad event that produces bad emotions. To deal with these, she says you do not have to go deep into personal history or again from the trauma… How you find a new balance - transform a negative experience in something to ‘grow up for yourself’ - is what is interesting.
The Conversation Series: A Job and a Passion
Passionately pursuing a job in teaching!
Education for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity
Education for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity is a 6-hour teacher training course that focuses on some of the issues associated with educating young people to prevent Crimes against Humanity.
An Imaginary Journey around the World
How guided imagery meditations can bust stereotypes and send us globe-trotting!
Grouping Techniques for 2019
Many of you want to shift your focus from teaching to learning. You are interested in collective intelligence, cooperative learning, co-construction of knowledge, participation and student voice… If so, then you probably see teachers as facilitators of learning and you are probably always looking for new and creative ways to divide a class or a big group into small groups! This article can help you.
The Conversation Series: Critical Thinking and Socratic Questioning
Imagine if we became more competent in Socratic thinking, would this be liberating?
Short Films to Teach Human Rights and Save Lives
Documentary films can enrich any lesson or professional development workshop in several ways. The present article offers ideas on how teachers and trainers can exploit short documentaries with pre- and post-viewing activities and give a meaningful follow-up task to help vulnerable groups.
Sociocracy for Choosing Class Delegates
Changing the way students choose their representatives using the sociocratic method.
The Conversation Series: Consent Decision-Making for Student Voice
Giving students the role of facilitator got them to realize how challenging it is to get 30 people to participate and listen to each other.
Decolonise the Textbook
If we want to move towards a culture-sensitive education then it is time to decolonise the EFL textbook!
Tous extraordinaires!
A tried and tested activity for the successful beginning of a new scholastic year!
L2C on the Shore
Because even democratic teachers need a good break!
The Online Social Space
The Online Social Space - Fostering Democracy and Human Rights in Online Environments is a 6-hour teacher training course that focuses on the challenge of creating respectful online environments.
Nothing Is What It First Seems
Ever wondered how you could get from a farm to outer space in a few minutes? Here is the description of a wonderful team-building activity… with a twist!
My Journey: Student Teachers’ Self-Assessment with Cards for Democracy
The Cards for Democracy can make an activity that supports personal and professional growth even more meaningful.
Quit Teaching and Start Eating Avocados
Is it possible to actually teach? What can we learn from growing an avocado?
Cards for Democracy for All
The Cards for Democracy for All are out now!
Introducing the Core Set of the Cards for Democracy Series
Announcing the launch of the central pack of the Cards for Democracy Series. Join us live on 3 April at 19:00 CET.
Am I Really a Democratic Educator?
Josef Huber describes his experience of using Cards for Democracy at an informal brunch with 25 teachers and parents in Strasbourg, France and at a workshop for 130 teachers on the island of Crete in Greece. Lessons learned give us ideas for further developing our sets of cards for different players in different contexts.
Why History Matters
What was taught in your history lessons and how was it taught? Is history used or abused to shape who we are?
4 Ideas for Advocate Europe
L2C and the Pestalozzi Community of Practice have launched a cooperation!
Teachers and Politics
No matter what we do in the classroom, our actions are always political. This blog revisits some of the best articles we published on the topic of teachers and politics in 2017.
Best of 2017
2017 has been an exciting year for Learn to Change and this blog post wishes to celebrate some of the best articles from this past year.
Teaching and Identity
As teachers, reflecting on our identity takes on a whole new meaning and responsibility as we examine and align our beliefs and values with our actions.
The “One” Book… (1)
This is the first of a series of posts that will explore the books that have shaped who we are, what we do and how we do it...
Has Education for Democracy Failed?
Most civics education today at best educates young people to be voters, not to participate in a democracy. Considering today's enormous disruptions and challenges, educating children to be ‘good voters’ is no longer a reasonable answer.
Taking Education for Democracy a Step Further
The way we choose to do things in the classroom today has a direct impact on the world of tomorrow.
Multicultural Education to Promote Human Rights Education
Multicultural education is a team effort and for it to serve as a means of promoting human rights education, it needs a multi-pronged approach.
Teaching Gender Issues: An Oral History and Civics Project
History education contributes to peace, stability and democracy but can recreating the past help us to shape our possible futures?
Establishing a Safe Learning Space
3 activities to nurture the democratic ethos and non-violent dynamics of a group you are in charge of is a good way to start the year!
7 Ideas for a More Democratic Year at School
Finding and investing time in on-going personal and professional development throughout the scholastic year can be a daunting task. The activities presented in this post aim to support such a commitment.
Multiperspectivity and Map Projections
It is not easy for us to accept other perspectives that question what we assume to be ultimate truths. However, there are many possible ways of viewing the world and all may be equally valid and equally partial.
Learn to Change Resource Series
The Learn to Change Resource Series is an initiative to support educators and learners, providing detailed descriptions of training sessions for educators on a topic of interest related to democracy and human rights.
Learning to Teach
The opportunity for ongoing professional development is probably within a few steps in the classroom next door...
Can a video game teach us about learning?
Video games can be a stimulus to actively engage students to learn and reflect about learning!
Recognizing Intercultural Competence
A self-assessment tool to help us recognize and reflect on where we and our students are on the road to intercultural competence.
6 Steps for 60 Million Teachers and their Students
Six steps teachers and their students can take to start making the world a better place!
Teacher Agency to Change Education
The power of teacher collaboration: challenges and steps to take.
What are tests good for?
Tests, whether standardized or not, remain increasingly popular and in spite of lip service arguing differently, in many instances, they continue to be the main form of assessment in the majority of educational settings. But what do tests really do?
Being a Teacher
What does it mean to "be a teacher"? More than anything else, being a teacher means being all that we want our children to be.
Cards for Democracy – Assessment and Evaluation Practices Revisited
Today we would like to share with you another activity based on “Cards for Democracy” that helps teachers develop their competence for democratic practices at the classroom level with a particular focus on assessment and evaluation practices.
60 Million Teachers
What can 60 million teachers and their students do? They just have the power to change the world for the better...
Sanctified or Vilified – Teachers in a Neo-Liberal Age
Teachers have been both cited as crucial to the success of any educational system but at the same time criticised, and occasionally vilified, for the failings of current educational standards. Where does the profession stand?
Ice breaking, Team building, Energising… It is All about Framing Cooperation!
Next time you think you can do without one, think again!
Cards for Democracy – Teachers’ Edition
Cards for Democracy are an opportunity for educators to reflect on, examine and improve their attitudes, skills and knowledge to better support democratic processes and improve their own practices and behaviours.
How I added wikis to my teaching quiver
Have you ever been in need of a tool which could help you organize your work in manageable and meaningful units? Would you fancy a space where all members of the group you work with could contribute to? How does the idea of a quick feedback procedure sound to you? Wiki may be a valuable "arrow" in your quiver!
The math serves the conversation, the conversation doesn’t serve the math: learning through inquiry
There is ample space for improvement on the discrimination front in teaching maths!
A Call to Action
Learn to change – Change to learn… there are many promises in these words.
What Happened on the L2C Blog in 2016?
As we look ahead to 2017 we decided to take a moment to revisit the articles featured in The Learn to Change (L2C) blog over the past months.
Fun in Learning: L2C’s Take on Activities from TESL Database
Creativity, fun and play contribute to meaningful learning when teachers and facilitators host memorable moments that encourage horizontal learning relationships.
Building a Local Community of Education Professionals
Despite the fact that most teachers are overworked and underpaid in Hungary, they meet once a month voluntarily; the sense of belonging to a learning community gives them energy to become the change and helps prevent burnout.
Teacher Diaries… Creating Cooperative Micro-Groups
A teacher's reflection on grouping students cooperatively while promoting democratic competences.
Aftermath of Elections: Teachers Respond
Are you disheartened? It’s a time to build brave hearts.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle
Knowledge is not the same as understanding or having information: read this story about a man and a very unique bike.
Discovering our DNA – Undermining our Common Humanity
No matter who we are or where we come from, we share a common destiny as humans.
A First Milestone for Learn to Change
Teachers need a deeper understanding of how intercultural competence can be developed and assessed in today’s classrooms for better social cohesion and cooperation.
Self-assessment for the Improvement of Practice
Self-assessment – the process of assessing one’s own skills, aptitude or performance – is a key part of improving one’s practice.
Let’s Build Rapport – 5 Fun Activities for Educators
With each new learning adventure come new challenges - establishing a rapport with the class/group is of paramount importance!
Education for Refugee Students
Fostering access to education for refugee students, asylum seekers and migrant children is important if we wish to shape a positive future.
Welcome to L2C
Welcome to the official website of Learn to Change – an international organisation that provides learning opportunities for personal and professional development.