Child-Friendly Spaces:  A guide for teachers (and teacher trainers)

Introduction & Overview

•    Defining Child-friendly
•    Overview of the Curriculum

Unit 1: The Teacher
•    Why do we teach?
•    The roles and responsibilities of teaching
•    Teacher well-being
•    Balancing work and life

Unit 2: The Child
•    The "stuff" the students bring with them
•    How we can support students – rethinking the relationship between student and teacher
•    Teaching strategies to support students
•    Teaching strategies to development a supportive classroom environment

Unit 3:  Beyond the classroom
•    Involving parents and families (Beyond recognizing their impact on the student and involving them in the student’s learning)
•    Child-friendly schools (Beyond the classroom walls)
•    Child-friendly communities  (Beyond the school walls)

Unit 4:  Additional Resources
•    Conventions on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

The TrainingThe Training: Child-Friendly Schools

Reources

(Resource 26)  Healing Classrooms Initiative

This website focuses on the child-friendly spaces in conflict and post-conflict areas.

(Resource 27) HREA lessons plans

This will be helpful for the training portion of the curriculum (Thanks Kat!)

(Resource 31) UNICEF Teachers Talking About Learning

Incredible resource that discusses the roles of the teacher, learner and community - includes ideas on creating a child-friendly classroom with lessons and activities and has a link to discussions among teachers (potentially great ideas for discussions or case studies in the training)