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Understanding and Challenging Entitlement in the Civics Classroom

This comprehensive guide aims to help educators navigate the complex concept of entitlement within the civics classroom. It begins with a foundational understanding of entitlement, leading to engaging group activities that cultivate a safe learning environment. Explore various citizenship levels and how to teach them—starting from personal responsibility to global action. The resource includes practical activities from Cultivatingpeace.ca to foster discussions on peace and social justice, encouraging students to reflect on their roles within their communities and the broader world.

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Understanding and Challenging Entitlement in the Civics Classroom

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  1. Challenging entitlement in the civics classroom Mary.Enns@ocdsb.ca

  2. What is “Entitlement”? • Introductions • Small group brainstorming: • “What is Entitlement?” • “What does it look like?”

  3. Teaching Citizenship & Community • Rights & responsibilities • Levels of Citizens • Levels 1-4 citizenship

  4. Teaching Level 4 Citizenship • Starts with the self, moves to the community, then to the world. • Moves from Conflict Resolution (from personal level outwards) to Action (from local to global) to Social Justice. • Starts with me, the teacher.

  5. Engaging Activities for the Classroom • Before the transformational activities from • Cultivatingpeace.ca • Work on a safe space for everyone in the class: • Locate Invisible students • Challenge those who render others invisible • Picnic game • Get on the bus • Snowball throw • Pictionary • Roundtables

  6. Cultivatingpeace.ca • Download “Cultivating Peace in the 21st Century” • P.13: Lesson Overview • Lesson One: Message Match, group activity that explores the meaning of peace • Lesson Two: Causes of conflict, 3 short videos that have current event applications

  7. Cultivatingpeace.ca • Download “Taking Action” • Lesson One: “Taking Stock”

  8. Other Resources • Visit my social justice professional learning community wikispace and add your own links / resources to make it your own. • http://socialjusticeplc.wikispaces.com/

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