Human Rights Education

Registration is now open for our third annual Summer Institute for Teachers: Fostering a School Culture and Climate of Human Rights, June 7-11, 2010 at the Hampton Inn & Suites in downtown Boise. The Institute is a unique opportunity for pre- and in-service teachers in Idaho to take part in professional develoment featuring both scholarship and project-based learning in human rights education. Participants selected to attend will receive lodging, meals and classroom materials at NO COST. Graduate credit will be available for a fee. The application is due April 30, 2010.

To support classroom instruction, the Center provides a human rights diversity curriculum. The K-12 Scope & Sequence of Human Rights Lessons, the only core program of its kind in the nation, features 23 lessons developed by Idaho teachers for use in social studies, language arts, and visual arts courses.

To review or download the document, please click into the following (individual lessons are available through the lesson plan search engine): Scope and Sequence

Designed to support the classroom integration of global perspectives Bringing Human Rights Home is a collection of 16 country / region specific geography and human rights lessons.

To review or download the document, please click into the following (individual lessons are available through the lesson plan search engine: Bringing Human Rights Home

Resource

Youth for Human Rights International: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/about/index.html

Youth for Human Rights International teaches human rights education both in the classroom and beyond traditional education settings. Their materials include the UNITED music video - a street-savvy, multi-ethnic, five-minute anti-bullying message that has captured the imagination of people around the world and 30 short public service announcement videos depict the 30 articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In less than a minute, students can learn one of their human rights.