Poverty Teaching Controversial Issues (Headlines)

Product Description

Headlines: Poverty is one of a series of books & accompanying CD-ROMs which offer primary school teachers much-needed support for teaching controversial issues. Published in association with the Citizenship Foundation, the Headlines titles provide background knowledge & practical teaching resources to introduce & appropriately manage discussions of sensitive, controversial & topical issues with complete confidence. Children of all ages are now regularly exposed to media coverage of controversial topics. When a news story hits the headlines, schools will naturally want to respond to the questions, fears & concerns of their pupils with sensitivity, accuracy & balance. The Headlines titles have been produced specifically to help teachers face this challenge. Features include: topic background knowledge & presentation of opposing arguments & viewpoints; advice on how to avoid bias; lively lesson plans; reproducible pupil resources including activity sheets, information sheets, case studies & news reports. Each accompanying CD-ROM
Includes:: editable versions of the activity sheets, so they can be adapted in response to topical news stories; additional resource materials & photographs to display on a whiteboard as a focus for discussion; additional background information for teachers.