Teaching human rights in Ontario - A guide for Ontario schools_2013

can use the activities in the order they appear, or you can choose individual exercises based on your class needs. Teaching human rights in Ontario can be used by secondary school teachers for law, history and civics courses and cooperative education programs. It can also be used in other high school courses, such as ...
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Teaching

human rights

in Ontario

A guide for Ontario schools

Contents Preface...............................................................................................................................................1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................2 About this guide .............................................................................................................................2 Learning outcomes ........................................................................................................................2 A note about language...................................................................................................................3 Real-life cases ...............................................................................................................................3 Students’ handouts and teachers’ references ...............................................................................3 Classroom activities .......................................................................................................................3 Teachers’ package ...........................................................................................................................4 What is the Human Rights Code? ..................................................................................................6 The Preamble sets the spirit ..........................................................................................................6 The Code evolves over time ..........................................................................................................6 The Code is remedial.....................................................................................................................6 Activity #1: Exploring the concept of discrimination...................................................................7 Activity #2: Human rights quiz .......................................................................................................9 Activity #3: The scope of the Ontario Human Rights Code ........................................................9 Activity #4: Types of discrimination – preparation ....................................................................10 Activity #5: Types of discrimination – using the fact sheets ....................................................10 Activity #6: Debriefing the answers to the human rights quiz..................................................11

Question #1: Anthony ..................................................................................................................11

Question #2: The women’s hockey team ....................................................................................12

Question #3: Yvon .......................................................................................................................13

Question #4: Maya and her friends .............................................................................................13

Question #5: Meerai and Sean ....................................................................................................14

Question #6: Chantal ...................................................................................................................15

Question #7: Michael ...................................................................................................................16

Activity #7: Using the case studies ..............................................................................................16

Case study 1: Darlene .................................................................................................................18

Case study 2: Paramvir ...........................................................