AFS Effect+ Program

AFS Effect+ Program is a hands-on learning program that introduces students to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how to work together to help advance these goals in their communities. The current AFS Effect+ versions available include workshops for teens led by AFS facilitators and a fully free Classroom Edition of the Program for high-school teachers, which includes capacity-building and a toolkit with resources for teaching Active Global Citizenship & the SDGs for high school students.

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Who are Effect+ workshops for?

These workshops are designed to engage young people, especially aged between 14-18 years old.

How do the in-person Effect+ workshops work?

AFS partners with local educational and youth organizations or schools.
These local groups identify youth leaders who will benefit from the program.
Participants take part in a 1-day or longer experiential workshop led by trained AFS facilitators to explore their role as global citizens and learn to exercise their power as changemakers. The workshops include:

- - Interactive dialogues with SDG specialists and experts,
  - Hands-on activities on intercultural learning and changemaking, and
  - The opportunity to engage in post-event social impact activities in their communities.

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Virtual Effect+ Program

“We learned the qualities required to be a global citizen, a changemaker. We learned to look from different perspectives to start the change from within ourselves right now.”

– Darshan Prema, Effect+ participant, India

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Capacity building for teachers

Thanks to the generous support of The Sir Cyril Taylor Charitable Foundation, high school teachers can also benefit from this program. The Effect+ for the Classroom Program equips educators with the intercultural skills needed to address the SDGs with their students through a virtual teacher-tailored capacity-building program.

In this capacity-building program, educators explore:

Innovative educational methodologies based on state-of-art intercultural learning and global competence research;
Multidisciplinary educational resources for teaching Active Global Citizenship & the SDGs for high school students;
Collaboration (virtually) with other educators from around the world;

Programming includes:

A series of online modules with video content;
12 hours of asynchronous global connections and self-paced learning spanning 6 weeks;
5 live dialogue sessions to connect with other teachers run by trained AFS Facilitators via Zoom;
Research-based AFS Global Competence Certificate upon completion;
Sir Cyril Taylor Young Leaders Awards for the top social impact projects created by teachers’ classes using the program’s tools.

The 2020-21 program is being offered fully free for 150 high school teachers from Brazil, Colombia and New Zealand. Contact AFS in one of these countries for more information.

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Toolkit for educators

Currently being piloted with the 150 teachers in Brazil, Colombia and New Zealand who are part of the 2020-21 Effect+ for the Classroom Program Capacity-Building for Teachers, the Effect+ Toolkit for Educators will be available to all teachers worldwide by August 2021.