Introduction
At school, students who have positive approaches to learning, in terms of both attitudes and behaviors, tend to enjoy good learning outcomes. Beyond school, children and adults who have developed the ability and motivation to learn on their own initiative are well-placed to become lifelong learners. Thus, an overall assessment of the outcomes of schooling needs to consider not only students’ knowledge and understanding but also their approaches to learning.
Objective
Shapers Academy program aim to help students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to actively participate in community life, mainly by learning and exercising their rights and responsibilities as citizens both at school and also in their community. Engaging young people in public life is essential if we are to build and advance a community where students feel they are part of, nowadays, students/young people lost the feeling of what does it mean to belong, to give back to their community.
Strategy
The implementation of activities developed for a project titled “From School to Community: Children and Students as Change Agents in their Community” (FS2C) . The project aimed to help students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to participate actively by learning and exercising their rights and responsibilities as citizens both at school and in their community.
The shapers academy program is based on values that are desired to be developed by
students (tolerance, responsibility, love, respect, helpfulness, self-sacrifice, peace,
honor, fairness, patriotism, freedom, negotiation and equality)
Educate students to help them engage in social life and enable them to practice their rights and responsibilities through knowledge and activities provided in school context.
Raise conscious who make sense of the changing world.
To be able to contribute to the progress of the society that they live in.
Develop necessary skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, cooperation, and negotiation.
Provide for students internships and opportunities to meet with (change makers, politicians, CEOs)
- Identifying real community issues.
- Researching and understanding the causes and consequences of identified problems.
- Engaging in discussions and brainstorming sessions to develop action plans.
- Preparing and implementing action plans, supported by teachers and researchers.
- Taking alternative pathways for solution implementation, such as community performances and social media campaigns.
- Conducting reflective evaluations to assess the effectiveness of their actions.