The inspiration to design The Critical Thinking Programme for me stemmed out of a professional development session on Benjamin Blooms Taxonomy. As a sixth-grade teacher, I was trained to engage measurable verbs and frame questions with a conscious focus on structured objectives, for example, list, c...
My dream was always to be a children’s author. To one day be able to walk into a bookshop and see MY books on the shelves – to see my stories and my voice out in the world. There was one small problem. As a child I was chronically shy. So shy, I was too afraid to speak up in class or ever share any ...
Hey there, awesome young minds! Ever wondered how you can make a big difference in our world? Being a changemaker sounds like a big task with big shoes to fill. Well, I've got a somewhat easier but very impactful secret for you: it's all about something called "mindfulness," and ...
Are you a #maincharacter? Do you have #maincharacterenergy? It’s a BIG hashtag right now. It means being the main character of your own life, actively taking control and focusing first and foremost on yourself, your wants and desires.
#Maincharacter says that the most important thing is us, and what ...
What do you think of when you consider a sustainable future?
There are loads of things we can do for this achievement, which is necessary considering the dire need for action against climate change today. Action is key.
Each one of us have different visions of a better future, ...
I hope you’ve eaten today. And yesterday.
Do you know - all your food comes from plants, or from animals that have eaten plants. Without plants, there’d be no life – no us!
For all our food, we need to be able to grow plants – lots of them. Billions of them.
But in the Middle East, and many other hot d...
Life below water (SDG 14) and clean water and sanitation (SDG 6) are extremely important goals that demand immediate attention. Whole ecosystems and economies, not to mention cultures and cities are at risk of collapse.
The 2021 UN SDG goals report states that on average only 1.2 % of nat...
I’ve had a daydream since I was young: if I suddenly became fabulously rich, what would I spend my money on? And while most of us will never have the opportunity to indulge on a massive scale, there is a lot of money out there, sloshing around in the world economy. A lot of it doesn’t seem to be doi...
Hello. My name is Callum the Camel and I am from Morocco in the north of Africa. Full disclosure – I am not a camel because they have two humps, I am a dromedary but humans are very bad at names. They call me a camel and it’s stuck. I don’t mind too much since some of my best mates are camels, and a...
When I was very little, much like many other children, I had a piggy bank in my room in London in the UK. I’d save up my pennies and my pound coins and think of all the wonderful books I’d be able to buy the next time we went to the shops. Sometimes if it was a really special book, and I couldn’t wa...
Many a life lesson has been taught to me by the animals that I have been fortunate enough to work with in my 23- year career as a Marine Biologist.
Nowhere has this been more apparent than here in the U.A.E, where Jumeirah Group proudly supports and provides resources for the Dubai Turtle Rehabilitat...
VOFG provides a wonderful opportunity to encourage and inspire young people to communicate their passion for the issues that interest them – the natural world, the right of children, or animals and so on - through the powerful medium of words. It highlights the importance of getting our youth ...
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