Project title: Developing the Global Learner
Type of project: Training/seminar provision
Duration: September 2007 to August 2010
Main funding body: Oxfam
Areas of work: W hole school global citizenship programmes, Sustainable schools framework, DfES International School Award (ISA) and Eco schools
Target audience: pupils aged between 7 and 16 years, Head Teachers, senior management teams, citizenship and geography coordinators, and teachers.
Project partners: Nottingham City Children's Services, Nottinghamshire County Children and Young People's Services
Description:
This project aims to develop teacher skills and educational frameworks to enhance whole school global citizenship programmes incorporating key themes such as poverty eradication, social justice, globalisation, global interdependence, sustainable development, basic rights, anti-racism, peace and conflict, empowerment and participation within primary and secondary schools through the following initiatives/frameworks – Sustainable schools framework, DfES International School Award (ISA) and Eco schools.
Project objectives are to:
- Establish an approach to each initiative that adds development awareness value through a focus on North-South school partnerships and the key global citizenship themes detailed above
- Equip teachers with better skills and methodologies for developing global awareness amongst their pupils through reflective practice
- Build on existing strategic alliances developed through the East Midlands Network for Global Perspectives in Schools (EMNGPS) as part of the Department for International Development (DfID) Enabling Effective Support (EES) strategy in order to increa se the capacity of the Nottingham/Notts locality group to support schools with global citizenship programmes
- Document case studies and activities from the project that have regional and national significance and make them available to a variety of stakeholders through dissemination
The project will host training events at suitable venues for both city and county schools and will
explore specific global issues in the broader context of Education for Global Citizenship, providing time to reflect, conducting an audit of existing practice, demonstrating practical ways of embedding global citizenship into the curriculum, learning what support is available from DECs, Local Authorities (LAs), voluntary agencies and other schools and finally conducting an action plan for an aspect of global citizenship they would like to further explore.
Each school in the project will specifically receive support with:
• an initial global citizenship audit
• preparing a customised action plan (covering INSET, whole school activities such as Global Awareness Weeks, curriculum, resources, school linking, activities to involve the wider community)
• embedding global citizenship across the curriculum
• finding/strengthening a link with a school in the South
• paperwork for accreditation for the awards
• strategic policy and planning linked into Every Child Matters (ECM) and the Self Evaluation Form (SEF)
There will be the following training events each year for the three years of the project:
• The first CPD one-day training event in the year will be held in October (for the event on 31st October 2007 please click here) and divided in two as follows:
- a.m. generic market place event for new teachers to signpost all the support and resources available from the Notts locality group in terms of implementing Global Citizenship through any of the three named initiatives/frameworks
- p.m. drop in surgery for teachers who have attended previous events to support further action planning, paperwork for accreditation and further ideas to embed global citizenship across the curriculum
• The second CPD one-day training event in the year will be held in the spring term and will focus each year on one of the three initiatives/frameworks identified ( Sustainable schools framework, ISA and Eco schools ). The following October's surgery will focus on the initiative that was covered in the previous spring term.
These events will be co-facilitated by MUNDI alongside staff from Local Authorities, teachers, pupils and other stakeholders. The expected impacts of the project are that pupils aged between 7 and 16 years will benefit from increased knowledge, understanding and skills enabling them to critically participate as global citizens in the world they will inherit. They will also have learnt to make responsible and conscious choices about their own lives and how they affect the lives of others in other parts of the world.
