Civic Education in the English Classroom

As students face an overwhelming tide of political content and complex media sources, critical political awareness has become an essential skill for the modern classroom. This interactive workshop encourages you to integrate civic education – a key transdisciplinary competence – into your English classes.

You will be introduced to effective strategies and, using the US Midterms 2026 as a central case study, develop your own lesson scenarios that bridge language learning and active citizenship.

Ziele

• Learn about ways to integrate transdisciplinary civic competencies into your curriculum
• Develop strategies to guide students in analysing political context and decoding information sources

Inhalte

• An introduction to civic education as a transdisciplinary competence
• Simple scenarios to integrate civic education into teaching English
• Methods to foster student’s active and constructive participation in current political debates
• Concrete implementation ideas for the US Midterms 2026

Voraussetzungen

• Laptop

Administrativer Kontakt

Weiterbildungsadministration

E-Mail

[email protected]

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