INSPIRE CITIZENS TRAINING
Workshop Details
WHEN: Monday, 27 November to Friday, 1 December 2023 (8:00am - 3:30pm)
WHERE: ISKL Ampang Hilir Campus (MPR 2/3)
FEES: Free for ISKL Community
FOCUS: Training for Service and Sustainability
Workshop Overview
During Inspire Citizens on-site visit to ISKL, Inspire Citizens’ Co-Founder Aaron Moniz will be working with educators to enhance service learning, sustainability, DEIJ, and global citizenship connections to the curriculum. Inspire Citizens will provide personalized professional learning using best practice resources stemming from Inspire Citizens' Empathy to Impact Approach and other ways to develop empathy, facilitate authentic investigation, link to knowledge, skills, and understandings and curricular content objectives, and enhance service and impactful action.
Aaron is looking forward to working with educators to further enhance the great work that has been done at ISKL and support sustained implementation of new global citizenship approaches into the curriculum and ISKL programs.
Learning Outcomes
As a result of attending this session, participants will be able to:
Use the Empathy to Impact Model and resources to enhance a current unit of study
Apply the resources to your context and design learning activities or unit plans
Gain hands-on engagement through sharing, collaboration, providing feedback and co-creation
Aaron Moniz
Aaron Moniz is one of the Co-Founders and Co-Directors of Inspire Citizens. Aaron helps schools around the world to develop whole school implementation programs for service learning and education for sustainable development as a means of developing global citizens. Aaron uses the Inspire Citizens’ Global Impact Schools Self Study to conduct strategic visioning and goal setting to articulate best practice professional learning approaches and personalize them to the unique context of each school. Aaron also uses the Inspire Citizens Empathy to Impact Approach to enhance curriculum at any grade level or subject area, and he helps schools to design K-12 scope and sequences, scaffolding the development of service learning and active global citizenship. Alongside the Inspire Citizens team members, Aaron also helps to develop student leadership programs, and facilitates the Inspire Citizens Global Citizenship Certificate; an online professional development program for global educators. Aaron believes that schools can become centers for community impact and strives to help schools see the large-scale impact that they can have by slightly optimizing their existing systems and centering on sustainable change.