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Explore strategies to internationalize the school curriculum, enhance global awareness, and foster critical thinking skills. Implementing Global Citizenship Curriculum, P4C sessions, and book-based learning on key global concepts. Encourage values of diversity, sustainability, and social justice. Develop a long-term plan for sustained global education activities. Resources for initiating global themes and engaging students in impactful global learning experiences.
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Internationalising our school NUT Training conference June 2011
Where do we begin? • Changing our Themes of the Week to encompass global issues, addressing each of the key concepts of the Global Dimension. • Carry out regular P4C sessions in our Tutorial lessons to develop thinking skills, social and emotional aspects of learning and critical analysis of global issues • Book-based topic work on key concepts of Global Dimension (with new books in library) • In lower school, replace SEAL with Global Citizenship curriculum, addressing key concepts of Global Dimension
The key concepts of the Global Dimension • global citizenship • conflict resolution • diversity • human rights • interdependence • social justice • sustainable development • values and perceptions. http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/uploadedFiles/AboutUs/gdw_gd_in_curriculum_england.pdf
P4C sessions: How did they go? • Enabled difficult and sensitive issues to be addressed in a language and context that children understood • Provided a safe and open forum for children to reveal their thoughts and worries • Allowed preconceptions to emerge and be addressed by class community.
What next? • Writing new schemes of work for a Global Curriculum in years 5 and 6 • Parallel classes to take turns every week to research and present a story in First News from around the world and add it to our World Map display • Prominent display in central area between all year 5 and 6 classes to add to as each of the key concepts are discussed.
…and in the long term? • To continue to develop the Global Citizenship curriculum in upper school • To arrange ‘Global Days’ across the whole school in which children will take part in activities based around the key concepts.