Global Citizenship: Experiential Learning

GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

GEx

Our Global Experiential (GEx) learning programme challenges and inspires students to become engaged responsible global citizens who act to make the world a better place. This continuum programme recognises the necessity of real-world experiences and connections beyond the classroom to develop compassionate, globally competent young leaders of tomorrow. In pursuit of our diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice goals, the programme develops students’:

• Understanding of their own (emerging) identity and the privileges and challenges they have • Understanding of the identity of others and the privileges and struggles they face (such as issues of prejudice, discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia) • Intercultural skills to connect with others • Understanding of how we can take action together to be inclusive, embrace diversity, and strive for greater equity and justice as individuals, allies and communities

Through a continuum of experiential learning and engagement, students in Grade 6-11 explore themes and skills through the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In the spring of 2022, a ‘week without walls’ engaged students in Grades 6-9 in local day programming. Grade 10 students explored the themes of their Global Citizenship course (social justice and identity, human rights and equity, peace and conflict, and sustainability and globalisation) with local experiences as well as through trips to Toronto/ Montreal, the Maritimes, and Yukon.

Community partnerships included: Vancouver

• Insights Global Education • 360 Riot Walk • A Better Life Foundation • Binners’ Project • Cheakamus Centre • Chinatown Storytelling Centre • Edible Garden Project • Employ to Empower • Fabcycle • Food Stash Foundation • Fresh Roots • Happy Cities • Harvest Project • Life Space Gardens • Love Intersections • Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre • Megaphone • Mission Possible • Ocean Wise • PeerNet • Raincoast Conservation • Sierra Club BC • Society Promoting Environmental

Conservation • Soul Food Farms • Story Money Impact • Talasay Tours • Tegan Acres National Zero

Waste Council • The Inclusion Project • Threading Change • UBC Climate Action Hub • Uplife Mental Fitness • Vancouver Aboriginal Community

Policing Centre Society • Wastenauts • UBC Wild + Immersive

Yukon

• Danoja Zho Cultural Centre • Klondike Goldfields • Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre • Long Ago People’s Place • LuMel Studios • MacBride Museum • Tombstone Territorial Park • Yukon Wildlife Preserve

Toronto/Montreal

• Aga Khan Museum • Black Creek Community Farm • Kahnawà:ke Tourism • Rivers of Hope • Spade & Palacio Tours

Maritimes

• Africville, Halifax • Canadian Museum of Immigration /

Pier 21 • Cape Breton Highlands National

Park • Eskasoni Cultural Journeys • Old Town Lunenburg • Peace by Chocolate

CAS: CREATIVITY, ACTIVITY, SERVICE & MORE

The Mulgrave MYP and DP CAS programmes facilitate sustained student engagement and learning in our local and global communities, often beyond the traditional classroom. CAS balances the three elements of creativity, activity, and service, complementing the academic programme.

Mulgrave students identify growth opportunities in five competencies that promote global-local engagement and understanding: school engagement, collaboration, intercultural skills, leadership, and personal health and wellness.

Students in Grades 6-12 set annual goals related to efforts in creativity, action, and service, which focus on personal outcomes (vs tasks). With their advisor’s support, students monitor and report on their goals using the five competencies (G6-10) or IB CAS Learning Outcomes (G11-12) as the basis for their reflections.

During the two-year IB Diploma Programme, Grade 11 and 12 also students take on a personalised, authentic service learning project, develop an ongoing personal health and wellness plan, and embark on a global-local community engagement initiative. It is truly a culmination of their Mulgrave and IB social impact learning experience.