Going Global with the Newspaper

Today's students are critical consumers of learning. They want to know what they're learning, why they're learning it and how they will be able to use it. One way of achieving this is to use local issues of interest to the students as a basis for developing integrated units of work. However, with ever-increasing curriculum content and the need to cover specific learning outcomes, it's often difficult to see how teachers could ever respond to specific student interests or important current community and global issues in their programs.