Rights Respecting Schools Award
UNICEF UK’s huge programme, active in over 5000 schools in the UK and reaching up to 1.6 million pupils, encourages a whole school approach to putting children’s rights at the heart of school policy and practice. A 2019 survey showed that rights-based education plays a key role in developing children and young people as active, engaged local and global citizens.
Photo by Cockshut Hill School / CC BY 4.0
Global Learning Programme
This large programme, which ran from 2013 to 2018, reached 7800 schools to deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global issues at Key Stages 2 and 3. Managed and supported by Pearson in England, it primarily brought together teachers, introducing new teaching and learning approaches and resources and supporting teachers in collective development of new education programmes.
https://www.pearson.com/en-gb/news-and-policy/reports-and-campaigns/global-learning-programme.html
Teach Climate Justice
This course for trainee teachers has been developed by Oxfam GB and Liverpool World Centre. Between 100 and 160 trainee teachers per year complete the day-long training that explores how best to tackle the human impact of climate change in the classroom, with a focus on encouraging critical thinking, and fostering hope.
https://liverpoolworldcentre.org/project/teach-climate-justice/
Fairtrade Foundation’s Fairtrade School Award
The Fairtrade Foundation’s ongoing programme involves more than 1000 schools across the UK. Investigating global trading and economic relations through a focus on what constitutes 'fairness' is a topic that can be tackled at all age groups, and can be applied across a range of curriculum subjects including geography, mathematics, sciences, design and technology, and citizenship.
Photo by Fairtrade London / CC BY 2.0
Climate Change Northern Ireland
The Centre for Global Education piloted this climate action project in four youth and community organisations in West Belfast. Encouraging young people to debate the causes of climate change and the mitigating actions that can be taken to address it, the course used a ‘train the trainer’ methodology, bringing together young people and community leaders to develop collaborative workplans for climate action.
The World We Want
This project, developed by the Welsh Centre for International Affairs in 2021, encouraged pupils to develop a vision of the future that they want to achieve over the next 100 years. The cross-curricular project explored creative visions of a preferred future, our responsibilities as “good ancestors”, and provided a roadmap for how to take action for a better future
https://www.wcia.org.uk/global-learning/global-citizenship-case-studies/
Seeds for Change
This project, led by Highland One World Global Learning Centre, provides online courses, practical guidance, and case studies to encourage Global Citizenship Education through a child-centred, play-based approach. Practitioners have been supported to create more Anti-Racist and gender inclusive learning settings, with stronger connections to nature.
https://highlandoneworld.org.uk/for-teachers/resources/seeds-for-change/
Global Teachers Award
This professional development course for teachers, endorsed by Oxfam, but run by local Development Education Centres across England, aims to build greater skills, confidence and understanding to embed development education in teaching. Run either as a whole school CPD, or for individual teachers, it caters for teachers of all phases.
https://www.thegloballearningnetwork.org/courses/global-teachers-award/
