Teaching objectives and goals
Teaching Objectives:
•Understanding subjectivity •Valuing diversity •Appreciating difference •Preventing bullying
Teaching goals: • Developing creative writing skills. • Critically analyzing and discussing key aspects of difference and bullying. • Understanding the vastness of difference. • Understanding the origin, the structures and the long-tern results of violence. • Developing empathy and solidarity. • Preventing violence in schools. • Delivering a lesson via examples that incite personal experience and thus overcome the problem of non-transferable experience.
Teaching approach:
•Learning by inquiring and discovering. •Developing critical and creative thinking.
Teaching materials:
•Projector, short movie, powerpoint presentation, gif and worksheets.
Brief description: • Students watch a few minutes of a silent film and document the events of the story. Then they write their own imaginary ending before they see the actual end. As they read their short essays they experience their individual differences although they have used the same language and have watched the same film. Through the powerpoint presentation students are provided with the basic notions of difference in relation to bullying in school. A performance is carried out that compares the human soul with a crumpled paper that does not return to its original condition. Relevant exercises follow.
Webography: • http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=m3JuhxwsVYY (accessed March 2012) • http://www.browardprevention.org/realityavenue/reality-avenue-grades-612/bullying/bullying-classroom-exercises/ (accessed March 2012) • http://tomrimington.blogspot.com/2011/11 /crumpled-paper-and-bullying-revisited.html (accessed March 2012)