As part of the Victorian Department of Education's Globally Engaged Learners Program (GELs) we bring you Global Up Teen, a new program from the award-winning AFS Global Competence Certificate. Global Up Teen is an online, fully-funded teen-friendly learning program that develops tangible global skills essential to live, work and have a real social impact around the world. With facilitated live sessions during school hours, and modules in their own time, students connect with peers across Victoria and Asia to develop essential and lifelong global “power skills”: collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, cross-cultural communication, open-mindedness and flexibility.
PARTICIPANTS:
Nominated by their teachers, participants for GELs Global Up Teen are aged between 13 and 17 and come from Victoria, China, India and Indonesia. Each cohort is equally weighted between Victorian and overseas students, enabling participants to connect with international peers during our weekly 90-minute live sessions with a qualified facilitator. There are between 20 and 40 participants in each cohort.
WHEN:
This program will run between April and September during terms 2 and 3. Live sessions will take place within school hours and timings will vary to accommodate time differences. As listed below, teachers are invited to nominate the cohort that best suits their students' language and cultural interests, as well as their schedules.
COHORTS:
TERM 2:
Cohort 1 Indonesia & Victoria: Monday 1 May - Monday 29 May
Cohort 2 Indonesia & Victoria: Thursday 9 May - Tuesday 6 June
Cohort 3 India & Victoria: Tuesday 16 May - Tuesday 13 June
Cohort 4 Indonesia & Victoria: Thursday 18 May - Thursday 15 June
TERM 3:
Cohort 5 China & Victoria: Tuesday 18 July - Tuesday 15 August
Cohort 6 China & Victoria: Thursday 20 July - Thursday 17 August
Cohort 7 Mixed cohort: Tuesday 8 August - Tuesday 5 September
Cohort 8 India & Victoria: Thursday 10 August - Thursday 7 September
This EOI form does not guarantee your school a place on this program, however Value Learning will work hard to analyse the demand and engage as many schools as possible.
For more information please visit our website or email Project Manager Eloise Dolan on eloise@valuelearning.com.au.