European Values: FAIRTRADE

Teaching: An effective key to self-learning This project is funded by European Union.

PRESENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE LESSON

Part 1 – Why Fairtrade?• In the beginning of this project,

pupils from grade 9 came with the idea to learn more about Fair-trade and tell the other pupils about it.

• So they invited guests from NGO Fer-OVA and the three most active girls helped to prepare a presentation of the topic and products for pupils from grade 9 and 8. in September 2015.

• At the end they decided to start a Fair-trade club.

What happened next?• In October, this club organized a Fair-trade project in

English lessons and pupils from the Fairtrade club prepared presentations about this topic.

• These presentations later became part of our lesson for Teaching: An effective key to self learning project.

• Pupils from grade 8 and 9 then worked on their own presentations and posters.

• They worked in small teams. • Finally they presented their results to

their classmates.

Growing interest in Fairtrade• Most pupils involved in this project worked also in

the Fairtrade club. They really liked the topic and worked hard to learn more about it.

• For example, they held a Skype conference with a young lady who opened a clothes shop with Fairtrade products, visited a shopping centre and made a survey on FT products. They made interviews with the shop assistant to learn what they know about this topic.

• They even took part in another etwinning project to share better their ideas with a Slovak school.

Chosing the topic for our lesson • In December 2014, members of the Erasmus+

team made the decision to prepare a Fair-trade lesson for the January international study visit of Erasmus+ students in Ostrava.

• A January Open Door Day for parents was used for spreading the information about the project and our topic.

• Our pupils talked to parents and made a survey which became part of our lesson.

Part 2 – OUTCOME for MANUAL • Title: FAIR-TRADE• Subject: European Values Target age: 14 – 16 Time: 2

lessons• Goal: Introduce European values and Fairtrade• Objectives:• To explain the meaning of logo, “Fair-trade” and „fair-trade• To inform about the “Fair-trade” a Fair trade school movements• To inform about coffee, tea bags and chocolate production• To compare living conditions in Europe and the developing country

with focus on the quality of life, especially children´s life • To promote Fair trade products by their display and tasting them• To make a poster informing about the main ideas of fair-trade and

Fair-trade• To collect data for a statistical poster and get feedback of the

lesson impact

Lesson plan - FAIRTRADE1) Introduction of the team, topic and first survey

5´2) Fair-trade movement, logo, meaning of “Fair-trade” and “fair trade”, criteria for a Fair-trade school

10´3) Presentations of coffee, tea and chocolate production,

comparing living conditions in Europe and the developing countries with focus on the quality of children´ life 15´

5) Survey about the impact of the lesson 5´6) Fair trade products display and tasting

10´7) Making a poster informing about the main ideas of fair-trade and Fair-trade

40´8) Presentation of pupils´ posters 10´

Who took part in the lesson?• 7 Czech student „teachers“:

14 – 15 years old• Nikol Bystroňová, Michaela

Škrabálková, Veronika Polcrová, Michaela Hladká, Tereza Pražáková, Karolína Hosová, Michaela Kozelská

• 32 students from 5 countries 15 - 17 years old

• 12 teachers from 7 countries BG, BE, IR, IT, SP, CZ + English teacher Chuck Rice from USA

When and where

• Place: Media classroom • School: Primary school Kosmonautů 15, Ostrava• Date: 26 January 2015, Monday• Lesson 1 (survey, presentations): 14:00 – 14:40 • Lesson 2 (poster making): 14:50 – 15:30 • Poster presentation was organized on Thursday

29 January with all international participants and some Czech students in the media classroom

Which means are necessary?• Power-point presentations, lesson worksheets, • Handouts with survey before and after lesson• Fair-trade products (chocolate, tea, juice)• Data projector, colour markers, large paper

1) BEGINNINNG of the lesson• The first activity in the lesson was introduction

of our team because it was the first day of our first project international learning visit.

• After this our team shortly introduced the topic of the lesson and asked participants to answer their survey about Fairtrade

• Then handouts with the survey were distributed and after a while collected back1) Do you know what Fair-trade is? Yes /

No2) Which Fair trade products are sold best? 3) Where are most of the Fair-trade products sold?4) Would you like to learn more about it? Yes / No

2) FAIRTRADE FACTS presentation, worksheet

• Students introduced criteria for a Fair-trade school which can be found in English: http://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/

• The criteria are transleted into Czech language

http://www.fairtradoveskoly.cz/ft_skoly• Students introduced various Fairtrade logos:

What else did we teach?

• Next students talked about the Fair-trade movement and the meaning of the word “Fair-trade”. The seat of Fair-trade is in Bonn. One half of the elected board are representatives of the Fair trade cooperative producers mainly from the developing countries. Students used power-point presentations.

• For Czech students we also use this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/1-prezentace-pro-ochutnvku-web

Fair-trade goals and purposes:

• Fair-trade is organization which main goal is:–To set the Fair-trade certification standards, –To give the minimum price for the Fair-trade goods, –To promote Fair-trade logo, –To organize campaigns for support of the fair trading. • The Fair-trade organization has two main

purposes: • To eliminate child labour• To make sure that a farmer gets fair price for his

product.

Beginning of Fairtrade movement• Name “Fair-trade” was first used in the

Netherlands in the 80s in the last century. • Max Havelaar Foundation introduced the first

product fulfilling the Fair trade criteria, coffee from Mexico, in 1988.

• The first Fair trade organization was founded in Great Britain in 1992 and its first products with Fair trade logo were produced in 1994.

• The first Fair-trade products were connected with handmade goods, nowadays the most traded Fair-trade goods are coffee, cocoa, sugar, and tea.

Fair-trade or fair trade?Living conditions

• Fair-trade also means fair selling and buying products.

• It gives people from Africa, Asia, and Latin America a chance to make living with their work.

• Its goal is to guarantee that people work conditions respect human rights and that farmers are paid for their hard work a fair wage.

• Only farmers who respect living environment can get the right to use the Fair-trade logo.

• The children whose parents work for Fair-trade cooperatives can go to school.

3) Fairtrade improves living conditions• Students presented procedures for making coffee, tea

and chocolate in order to make clear that this is hard tedious work which is paid badly in the developing countries and the living and working conditions are demeaning for the workers and their children who are often forced to work instead of going to school. Students used their power-point presentations:

• fair-trade tea http://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/presentation-fairtrade-tea,

• fair-trade products http://www.slideshare.net/alenaholas/presentation-of-fairtrade-products

4) Survey on the impact of the lesson

• Pupils were asked to answer the same questions about Fair-trade and some new questions.

• These answers were checked together before Czech pupils collected them back so that the international students had better feedback.

• The Czech students compared the results of the survey done before the lesson with the results of the survey done after the lesson to see the impact of the lesson on their pupils.

5) Fair trade products: display and tasting• The Czech students prepared Fair-trade products such

as chocolate, cookies, tea or juice.• After the lecture they encouraged their international

pupils to taste them.• Fair trade products are often more expensive and shop

assistants claim that it is due to their higher quality and higher expenditures caused by higher ratio of hand work.

• This is something what the consumer cannot check so at least it is good to know whether he or she likes the particular product.

• Students also showed the logo on the products.

6) Making a poster about the main ideas of fair-trade and Fair-trade

• International students were asked to make a poster about fair trade and Fair-trade.

• First they had some time for discussing their ideas.

7) Poster presentation• International students presented their posters• Students also said the main idea of their poster and in

their language.• At the end the Czech pupils collected the posters.• Later they prepared a poster display.• Finally, the posters were taken to secondary school in

Hlučín where the Czech pupils taught another Fairtrade lesson in April.

• We prepared qualitative and quantitave evaluation questions about the lesson.

• These questions were part of the final evaluation form of the meeting in Ostrava.

• You can find the form here:• https://docs.google.com/fo

rms/d/1_XYtf3LWioA8AMEkSiFnmt6sGZfWKS6bz2__7gHPn3E/viewform

Part 3 - EVALUATION

Czech student „teachers“ wrote:

• Student 1: I think, to do the presentation about Fair-trade was the most challenging part of the project for me.

• Student 2: The most inspiring moment for me during the meeting was when we had a presentation about how Fair-trade is involved in helping people.

• Student 3: During the meeting I learnt to teach others and I can use it in our project.

International pupils wrote:• Bulgarian pupil 1: The most inspiring moment of the

meeting was when we did the posters because it was cool to work with my team mates.

• Bulgarian pupil 2: learned about Fair Trade. I believe this knowledge is really valuable.

• Irish pupil: The new thing which I have learnt during the meeting was that fair trade is very common in the southern hemisphere especially in Africa.

• Belgium pupil: What new did I learned during the meeting? I learned more about fair trade and I learned speaking better English.

Teachers wrote:• Czech teacher: It was great to see pupils working

hard on the topic which they have chosen and doing all the research. They were afraid to speak to older students who they did not know and do the lesson in English but they overcame their worries and did a great job.

• Bulgarian teacher 1: The Fair Trade activity was interesting.

• Bulgarian teacher 2: Presentation of posters by students was the most inspiring moment for me during the meeting.

Part 4 – DISSEMINATION1) Display of the Fairtrade posters at our school.2) Teaching 13 apprentices in vocational school OU Hlučín in

April in 2015.3) We used data collected during the survey and made a

statistics poster for a national poster competition in February 2015 and put the poster on a Fairtrade notice-board.

4) Teaching 17 pupils in class 8. A in our primary school in June 2016.

5) Pupils from class 8. A used the information and the poster to make Math tasks for another lesson.

6) Placing our presentations for the lesson an of the lesson with Erasmus+ logo on project web sites.

Feedback for the last lesson:What do you think about the lesson?

• Did you like the lesson?• Did you learn something? What was it?• What was the best part?• Did you understand your „teacher“?• Did you have a task? How did you feel about it?• Did your group worked as a team? • Did you feel well in your group?• Do you have other comments or recommendations?

Answers from class 8. A in June 2016• On 10 June 2016 our team who is now about to leave

school prepared Fairtrade lesson for class 8. A• 17 pupils listened to the presentations and worked

with new worksheets in two lessons.• Then they drank Fairtrade tea and worked on posters.• In the end of the third lesson we asked previous

questions.• Most pupils enjoy the lesson and could understand

their peer teachers well. They were happy to work in groups.

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Presentation about Fairtrade tea – Michaeala Š. and Nikol who took part in Italy meeting 2016.

17 pupils from class 8. A after Fairtrade tea refreshment worked on their posters on 10 June.

We taught this lesson:class pupils town country language date

8. and 9. 15 + 14 Ostrava Czech Republic English, Czech

October 2014

Internationalstudents

32 Ostrava Czech Republic English 27. 01. 201529. 01. 2015

Vocational school, form 2

12 Ostrava Czech Republic English, Czech

22. 04. 2015

8. A 17 Ostrava Czech Republic English 10. 06. 2016