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Global Dimension:
the Eight Key Concepts

Underlying the idea of the Global Dimension to the curriculum are 8 key concepts

Source:
Developing the global dimension in the school curriculum 
DfES March 2005

Global Dimension topics 

To access the 12 global dimension topics click on the ‘global topics’ tab on the toolbar above. These interactive resource pages are designed to be used independently by students and, as a planning resource for teachers to explore and research current issues that affect people around the world and are linked to reduction.

Using this Global Portal

See the tab menu system at the top of this page.
A description of the tab contents is below:

   a range of online, self-contained activities for your students.

   takes you to this page.

  the menu page for the 12 global research topics.

  how online interactives are being used and developed for global issues.

  a summary of development and global education, with links to relevant documents.

 

Click here to download a pdf for teachers with examples of how to plan using the global topic pages.

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Highlights
Action area updates:

Click here to download the Primary School Councils event form for "School Councils, Conflict Resolution and Janusz Korczak" on Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 at Tower Hamlets Town Hall, 10.00 - 12.30pm

Click here to download the teaching resource on Janusz Korczak

Click here to download the poster on Janusz Korczak

NEW Downloadable Global Leaflets

Black History Month and training days at Tower Hamlets Town Hall for school councillors on different aspects of running a democracy. Fair Play Wall (slide show) - find out how Tower Hamlets is celebrating its school council's and their development of the student voice in the Borough. Creating a school council constitution and policies. Two webquests to ensure your school council is the democratic voice of the school's children. The policy statement is on Fairtrade.

'What should be funded?' a webquest for KS3 and 4, for your class to debate five issues (water, schools, health, democracy and trade) and vote on what the Department for International Development should fund. This is being updated based on the new White Paper.

Fair Trade                                       Ethical Fashion

Find out more about OSDE 
(Open Spaces for Dialogue and Enquiry)

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Banking on the World - how to use enterprise to address global and development issues in schools.

Download Natural Disasters leaflet here

Learn how to deliver global citizenship across the curriculum - Ten exhibitions for loan free of charge to Professional Development Centres, School Library Services and other Local Authority Centres.


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