Resources for Educators
World Savvy Monitor
The World Savvy Monitor is an online subscription-based current affairs service for the 21st Century educator, published bi-monthly with updates and archives.
The Monitor is a unique “one-stop shop” for K-12 educators who want to address complex global issues, drawn from hundreds of diverse sources and multiple perspectives. You'll get the background and context to help you understand the issues deeply and from all sides and enhance your ability to bring these issues into your classroom.
Momentus Lesson Plan
The Momentus lesson plan included in the World Savvy Collaborator’s Guide gives you the tools to facilitate a discussion with your students not only about Ghana’s culture, but also about your students’ own culture and background. This is a chance for your students to share answers to the questions posed on the film, comment on the topics raised by the film, and express their own culture and identity.
After watching and discussing the film, we encourage you to work with your students to create something which expresses who they are and how they want to be seen. Invite the students to share a piece of their lives (What is your family like? What does a typical morning look like? How do want people to see you? What message do you have for your peers across the globe?)
This is also a chance for your students to share their own views about immigration and identity, and their local and global community. What do they “want to tell the world?” What do they “wonder why?” Join the online conversation.
http://momentusinternational.org/2009/04/black-spots/
Crossing the BLVD
Crossing the BLVD is a multimedia project including a book, audio CD, exhibition and website. This project presents the very human stories of new immigrants and refugees in the United States and their experiences here pre- and post-9/11. Created by EarSay documentary artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America forms a portrait of a paradoxical and ever-shifting America. It intimately portrays the lives of new immigrants living and working in the most diverse county in America, Queens, NY, a modern-day Ellis Island where cultures overlap in a choreography of chaotic co-existence. For three years, Lehrer/Sloan traveled the world by trekking the streets of their home borough in search of migration stories and a deeper connection to their diverse community. The book and audio CD and website are a unique educational tool offered through World Savvy's partnership with EarSay. Radio Documentaries produced for public radio and audio text pieces can be used in the classroom to open up dialogue and discuss issues of immigration and diversity.
http://www.earsay.org
http://www.crossingtheblvd.org