We create Global Citizens
Global Skills for teens
Personal and social capability, ethical understanding and intercultural learning focus on ways of being, behaving and learning to live with others.
These are key global skills for teens. That's why they are outlined as key capability areas in the Australian Curriculum for students in Year 10.
Global skills are important to all students, regardless of their cultural or socio economic background, whether they are a student at school or undertaking their schooling at home.
Delivered by qualified facilitators, we offer a series of programs that develop global skills for individual students or student groups, in school or at home, and also to youth organisations that want to add intercultural learning to their activities and leadership programs.
Programs for teens
Global You™ Changemaker
Build your global skills and create innovative social impact projects when you work with teens from around the world on this 12-week virtual exchange program
The AFS Global Competence Certificate is delivered in a series of interactive modules online. You can manage the course load at your own pace between the weekly live sessions with qualified facilitators.
This blended learning program develops tangible global skills for young people; essential to live, work, and make a real social impact around the world.
Students work independently through each week's sessions, coming together each week online to work together as a group in interactive workshops with a qualified facilitator. Here, they share their learning and have group discussions to assess and solve problems that help them to become a global citizen.
The program is delivered in a closed, minors-only platform for connecting and sharing with other teens at home, in school or even with other students worldwide.
Overview
Participants: 14-17 years
Timeframe: 5 weeks
Total modules: 18
Time needed: 2 hours/week
Live sessions: 1 per week
Delivered by qualified facilitators
Who am I
1. Welcome and roadmap
2. Learning styles
3. Metaphors of culture
4. Who am I?
Discover
5. Leaving your comfort zone
6. Exploring perspectives
7. Stereotypes and
generalisations
Join a virtual exchange program
Meet other teens from around the world while you develop new friendships and your 21st century global skills without having to leave home. Yes! Virtual exchange programs are a thing, and make intercultural exchange possible for all Australian teenagers.
See the world through the eyes of teens from
other countries, while you explore new ways of living, ideas and how your peers are shaping their lives and future in an ever changing and challenged world.
In addition to having fun and making new friends the world over, your learning is supported by qualified facilitators trained with AFS's intercultural learning expertise, based on more than 70 years of experience running intercultural learning programs for teens in more than 60 countries.
AFS Global You™ Adventurer
Join this one-of-a-kind 5-week interactive virtual exchange program and meet with teens from anywhere in the world. Work through online modules at your own pace and meet your peers in a facilitated online sessions to develop key 21st-century global skills. You'll get to know your own culture and enhance your intercultural communication skills and build bridges across cultures to become part of a truly global community.
Apply now with AFS International for your place on one of the program dates below.
AFS Global You™ Changemaker
Are you curious about global issues? Do you want to create positive social change in your community? Perhaps you are interested in entrepreneurship, innovation, design, sustainable development, public policy or social justice. If so, this program has been created for you!
Take your place in a 12-week interactive virtual exchange program with other teens from around the world, to develop global competence skills, create innovative social impact projects, and earn certification from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Social Impact Strategy.
Apply now with AFS International for your place on one of the program dates below.
Your eligibility
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15 - 17.5 years old
If you are:
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creative, curious and committed
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wanting to create a positive change in the world
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keen to develop your own social impact project
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want to make connections with global peers around the world
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have an advanced written and verbal skills
This program is for you!
Your commitment
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12 week program
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18 self paced, online curriculum modules
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2-3 hours per week personal time
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6 live sessions with your global peers
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be supported by guided learning and mentorship from AFS and the University of Pennsylvania
Your achievement
Connect with global peers from diverse backgrounds
Dive deep into social impact and make a difference wherever you are in the world.
Learn from your peers and their projects plus contribute your own.
Become an active global citizen
Become an alumni of a global network of like minded people
Your (significant) achievement
* When you achieve all the requirements of this program, you will attain the Advanced Certificate on Global Citizenship for Social Impact issued by AFS International Programs and the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania - an Ivy League University recognised as one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world.
It's a significant beginning to your global skills résumé.