Raymond Mitchel Africa

Educator/Teacher

Raymond Mitchel M. Africa is an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme Science and Design Educator. Currently, he is the MYP Personal Project coordinator for middle school students and DP Creativity, Activity and Service Coordinator for high school students. He is a Certified Teaching English as Foreign Language Teacher and Educational Technology Expert. He has been presenting in various speaking engagements in educational conferences worldwide. Among these are 21CLHK in Hongkong, BETT Asia in Malaysia, EduTech Asia in Singapore and EduTech Philippines. In 2019, he was also the recipient of ISTE PLN Outstanding Educator of the Year in the USA, World Scholar's Cup Coach of the Year in Philippines, Global Teacher Awardee in India, and BETT Asia' s Leadership Awardee in 2017. He is a Microsoft Innovative Educator Trainer, National Geographic Certified Educator, Google Certified Educator, TeachSDG Ambassador, and Global Peace Chain Country Director. He is an advocate of utilizing EdTech Apps and Programs in the classroom to digitalize 21st Century Education and member of the Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts, Alpha Squirrels, Seesaw Ambassadors, Flipgrid Ambassadors, and Quizlet Ambassadors. He is currently working on his Youth Empowerment through Service or YES Project to empower more educators and students to collaborate on purposeful projects to address global issues and promote the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. He is also coaching various extracurricular activities, such as Rugby Team, Volleyball Team, World Scholar's Cup, Egret TechnoHub Crew, and Dance Team. These activities help engage students in meaningful and productive experiences to hone their knowledge and skills and develop teamwork, collaboration, and camaraderie.

My passion is to lead and serve. I wanted to inspire, motivate and empower young people and educators around the world to work on keeping our Earth safe and peaceful. Through global collaboration, students and educators have been connecting in my classroom to work towards achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, which is included in my personal goals right now. I am very passionate to take action and to act now. I have been establishing local and global connections to engage more educators and students towards international-mindedness. I am constantly connecting with non-government agencies and private institutions working for animal welfare, like Wildlife in Need and El Kabayo in the Philippines. Students volunteer every year to take care of animals, training how to rescue mammals, rehabilitate animal shelters and explore and take care of animals living in the wild and under the ocean. I am also collaborating with institutions and schools to do some outreach projects, such as in Kanaynayan Village and Kanawan School. I let my students work with projects through global collaboration such as TeachSDG Ambassadors' Innovation Project and Link to the World Project. I also engage my students with online global discussion through Global Encounters, where students discuss with professionals, educators, and students all over the world about global issues. Through global collaboration using Skype in the Classroom, I can connect more and more classrooms, students, and educators all over the world to work towards maintaining peace and promote justice among countries. In the community, I conduct training and seminars on how SDG can be practiced and integrated with the community and school. I assist and support students and educators on their projects to be able to help save our world. Check out my students' projects here: https://youthempowermentthroughservice.wordpress.com/ and my own personal blog here: https://mitchelafrica.com/

Design, Edtech, Science, Sustainability, Technology