GMT recently commenced the strategic rollout of its JustUs Workshop Education Programme with the delivery of its 'Facilitating JustUs Training the Trainer Programme' to a mixed group of sixteen youth workers and citizenship education teachers.
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During the latter months of 2016, as part of its preparation to commence the strategic rollout of JustUs in the Autumn of 2017 GMT successfully delivered prototype ‘training the trainer’ programmes with a number of district councils across the north.
Below are a series of voxpops from four students from St Joseph's Boys School, Derry on their experience of participating in the JustUs Workshop Education Programme.
Below is a series of voxpops from students at Oakgrove Integrated College, Derry on their experience of having participated in the JustUs Workshop Education Programme.
Over the past year (April 2015/16) the GMT team worked closely with a cohort of 20 teachers and youth workers, across multiple locations throughout Northern Ireland, in the piloting and seeding of this innovative approach to citizenship education.
On 9th and 10th February 2016, as a concluding element to Derry City & Strabane District Council's Prejudice Face On programme, GMT delivered two one hour 'Taster' Workshops to a total of 240 young people drawn from 14 schools in the council region.
Feedback on the success of JustUs to engage young people at the Education Authority's TBUC Summer School exploring young people's attitudes and understanding of the legacy of the conflict.
JustUs and its Gaslight Media Trust (GMT) development team where heaped with praise at the launch of the programme's Seeding Delivery Phase (Friday 24th April 2015).
The Seeding Delivery Phase of JustUs will be launched in the City Hotel, Derry on Friday 24th April at 12 noon.
The JustUs Programme's second Training Workshop for teachers & youth workers wins another enthusiastic welcome.