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Teachers tv has many really good tv programmes which you can watch online, download, and use in any way you wish. To always get the latest content you can subscribe to a newsletter, and new content is usually listed on the home page at http://www.teachers.tv/
Itslife has gone through the programmes which are relevant to LL teacher training in any way, and they re listed in the following pages with links to the series or programmes concerned.
Life Stuff: Citizen UK - Kyle's Story
A teen struggles to get a skate park built in his town
Life Stuff: Citizen UK - Asif's Story
An inspirational look at a youth project funding agency
Life Stuff: Citizen UK - Jenna's Story
A youth parliament member agitates to have young voices heard
A Safe Place - 30 minutes
Footballing heroes such as Thierry Henry, David James, Shaka Hislop and Ashley Cole know the difficulties of adapting to different cultures. Here, they speak up for asylum seekers, asking us to understand the physical brutality refugees have suffered in their own countries and pointing out that we can learn from people of different cultures.
Also interviewed are young people, talking about their own experiences of seeking asylum in the UK and why they were forced to flee their homes. The programme aims to combat myths and stereotypes about asylum seekers and refugees and promote informed debate among young people.
RSA Lectures - Howard Gardner - Future Minds - 60 minutes
In this lecture series, filmed at the RSA in London, Harvard professor Howard Gardener examines the mental capacities needed for the future in a globalised world. The kinds of minds he suggests should be cultivated are three cognitive ones: the disciplined mind, the synthesizing mind and the creating mind, and two that deal with the human sphere: the respectful mind and the ethical mind.
Gardener discusses how these can be best nurtured, and points out some of the inevitable tensions created between them.
After the lecture a group of teachers discuss how these ideas are used in practice in the classroom today.