Worlds Largest Lesson

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What is a Guinness World Record?
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What is a Guinness World Record?

• Mike Powell jumped 8.95 meters

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What is a Guinness World Record?

• Cheetah 100 meters in 3 seconds

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What is a Guinness World Record?
Longest human chain Bangladesh 2004 5 million
people 1,050 kilometers
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What is a Guinness World Record?
World record 15, 851 snow angels Ontario Feb.
2004
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Worlds Biggest Lesson

• Global Campaign for Education
• Canadian Global Campaign for Education
• Canadian Teachers Federation
• Education International

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What makes for a good education?

• Number of students in a class

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What makes for a good education?

• Teacher who is caring and trained

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What makes for a good education?

• Teaching materials
• Learning something interesting

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What makes for a good education?

• Safe and secure environment

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What makes for a bad education?

• Zambia 64 children per teacher
• Classes of 100 children

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What makes for a bad education?

• Liberia 27 children for every textbook
• Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, UR of Tanzania
  and Zambia

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Missing out on education

• 750-million adults around the world
• 1 in 4 women around the world cannot read or
  write

• Who do you think are most likely to miss out
  on an education?

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Missing out on education

• Reasons
• Poverty
• Location
• Gender
• Wars
• Ethnicity

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Why is an education important?

• Able to get a job

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Why is an education important?

• Can use Internet
• Send text messages

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Why is an education important?

• Able to read (books, road signs, medical
  instructions, recipes)

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Why is an education important?

• Buy or sell
• Help your own children learn how to read and
  write

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Why is an education important?
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Why is an education important?

• In Africa
• If a girl completes primary school her chances of
  catching HIV/AIDS falls by half
• If a child completes primary school they will
  earn twice as much when they work.

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Why is an education important?

• For every year a girl completes at primary school
  the chances of her children surviving past the
  age of 5 increase by 12.

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What is the world doing about it?

• Promise made in 2000 by world leaders
• 2015 target to have every boy and girl in school

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What is the world doing about it?

• So far, the world is off track
• Cannot meet the goal by 2115, let alone 2015

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Snap Quizz

• What is the fastest land animal?
• Answer

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Snap Quizz
Examples of what makes for a good education

• Answers
• How many children are in a class
• A teacher who is caring and properly trained
• The number of teaching materials
• Learning something interesting and relevant
• Safe learning environment

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Snap Quizz
Number of adults who cannot read or write

• Answer
• 750 million

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Snap Quizz
How many women cannot read or write?

• Answer
• 1 in 4

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Snap Quizz

• Why is education so important?

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Snap Quizz

• Has every child been promised an education?
• Answer Yes

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Congratulations!

• Youve taken part in the
• Worlds Biggest Lesson!