Other resources from the education sector to help you develop your curriculum
British Council Schools Online is a web community for teachers around the world to find school partners, accredit their international work, find teaching resources and enhance their professional development. Get involved now and explore the Warm up for the Games by sharing the history of the Olympic Truce with your pupils. Learn more on how to organise your European partnership with Comenius or plan for your 2012 Foreign Language Assistant. Register today!
Take part in a tremendous inter-faith celebration of cultural diversity at the Celebrate Commonwealth Day Observance in Westminster Abbey on the 12th March 2012. Commonwealth Day in Westminster Abbey is a unique event and the teachers, pupils and parents who attend every year tell us that it is a life changing experience. All UK schools are encouraged to apply for tickets. It is free to attend, but attending schools should have engaged in some Commonwealth and Jubilee activities prior to the 12th March, especially in the Jubilee Time Capsule project.
Use this resource to support learning about children’s rights and to mark International Children’s Day. An exciting new, global citizenship secondary teaching resource that supports the teaching of Citizenship and PSHE, bringing a rights-based approach to learning about economic well-being. As one teacher has said, 'One of the most valuable resources produced in the last 10 years and it will stay firmly on my desk!' www.unicef.org.uk/justliving Unicef’s Rights Respecting Schools Award recognises achievement in putting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child at the heart of a school’s planning, policies, practice and ethos. Find out more here.
SoundAffects Education Topics are built around professionally recorded audio of children in the global South describing the detail of their daily lives, and talking about how they’re affected by global issues ranging from Fairtrade to the HIV / AIDs epidemic. SoundAffects is now offering new material recorded in Kenya, to supplement their popular KS3 topic on flooding and climate change in Sri Lanka. In recorded audio, Kenyan teenagers discuss a range of environmental issues affecting their country, from the problem of industrial pollution in urban Nairobi, to deforestation affecting the coastal resort of Mombasa. They also talk about the impact of climate change on the pastoralist Masai people’s way of life. http://www.soundaffects.org.uk
This is an exclusive film on health and poverty which may be appropriate in secondary schools for PSHE/Citizenship, Humanities/Geography or of interest to those with a school partnership with Kenya. It could also provide material for an upper KS3-4 debate. The first of a series of short films, it examines the need to tackle the fundamental cause of poverty and addresses sexuality-based discrimination in Kenya. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/povertyover
This website is a guide to books, films, posters and web resources which support global, intercultural and environmental understanding for all age groups and subjects. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find a huge range of teaching resources and background material. www.globaldimension.org.uk
The Global Poverty Project (www.globalpovertyproject.com) is arranging a school tour of their groundbreaking educational resource ‘1.4 Billion Reasons’, ‘’ a thought-provoking presentation that powerfully communicates on the issues of tackling extreme poverty and the Millennium Development Goals. It describes the challenges that have been overcome and those that still remain, with the aim of inspiring students to take action on extreme poverty that goes beyond just giving money. Watch a trailer of the presentation here and find out more by visiting www.globalpovertyproject.com/pages/schools.
Rafi.ki is a moderated online learning community which helps schools and youth groups around the world to connect with one another for collaborative learning. Rafi.ki offers a safe and fully moderated environment for mutual exchange of work and ideas. Also available - lesson plans and educational resources on global issues, such as Climate Change, Global Health and Peace & Conflict to help you bring a global dimension into your classroom.
The School Enterprise Challenge offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your school partnership by developing parallel, student-led businesses that will grow year on year. A cross-curricular enterprise project, it is a global competition with the goal of creating groups of globally aware, socially responsible young entrepreneurs.
Teach A ManTo Fish will provide you with a variety of resources to help you establish a sustainable school-based enterprise, and to integrate the project into your classes – no matter what subject you teach!
For overseas schools, this global competition encourages schools in developing countries to start their own school-based business, or develop an existing one further. Managed in different stages, stage one, schools will compete to write the best business plan, stage two, schools will implement their business plans and start up their enterprises. Download an information pack for overseas schools.
Visit www.schoolenterprisechallenge.org.uk, or email sec@teachamantofish.org.uk
‘Global Learning through Global Weeks’, a new publication from CDEC provides practical ideas and planning for a global week. This free resource supports teaching about the global dimension and is available to view at http://cheshiredec.org/html/publications.htm . Other titles also available.
This secondary school resource pack with case studies and video clips from UK, Ghana, Gambia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Brazil, helps teachers to encourage young people to think critically and develop a rights- based approach to economic well-being. It explores what it means to be a global citizen and familiarises students with the UN Convention on the Rights; what having a decent standard of living means; understanding poverty. Download the PDF here
If you’re looking for a good media outlet to share your news - BBC World Class is your answer. It facilitates and supports school linking and wants to hear about your school partnership’s activity for its Shout Out column. Visit their website http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldclass/ or email partnership news to worldclass@bbc.co.uk, mentioning you’re part of a Global School Partnership.
A useful resource for schools, this new publication from CDEC provides practical ideas and planning for a global week. It supports teaching about the global dimension and is available to view with other publications at: http://cheshiredec.org/html/publications.htmPrice £6.50 incl. P&P
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