Global citizenship skills

The teaching ideas in Population in Perspective make use of a variety of teaching strategies. They emphasize active learning and critical thinking, and provide many opportunities for student reflection, research and action.

Together with the in-text tools, the teaching ideas give students opportunities to further develop their skills and population education in the following areas:

★ Gathering information (brainstorming, reading comprehension, identifying main ideas, conducting interviews)

★ Organizing information (listing, categorizing, sequencing, mapping, graphing, drawing, charting)

★ Analyzing information (questioning, discussing, comparing and contrasting, identifying components and relationships among components, identifying patterns)

★ Interpreting information (summarizing, drawing conclusions, defining problems, identifying cause and effect, reasoning)

★ Applying information (estimating, predicting, synthesizing, proposing solutions, problem solving, making decisions, developing and implementing investigations and action plans)

★ Evaluating information (identifying bias, critiquing)

★ Presenting information (writing, illustrating, public speaking, debating, explaining, performing)

Importantly, the teaching ideas and in-text tools offer students many opportunities to develop their global citizenship skills. They gain a population education to help them better understand the world.

Throughout Population in Perspective, students get to work in pairs and groups, debate, come to consensus, take, defend and evaluate a position on an issue of public concern, plan and take action and become involved in community decision-making.