Fair trade: Learning and teaching activities

Developing Skills

Learning about global issues, such as fair trade, requires an open, participatory ethos, with stimulating activities. Learning activities should be planned which develop skills for active participation including: communication, enquiry, decision making, and problem solving.

Critical and creative thinking should be encouraged, and learners supported to question their assumptions and make connections to previous learning. Collaborative approaches to learning should be fostered.

Appropriate activities could include:

• role plays, simulations and games
• co-operative investigations using media sources, such as photographs and the internet
• using a range of media to present information
• planning an enterprise activity, such as a publicity campaign.