Global Schools Professional Learning Site

Welcome

Welcome to the Global Schools Professional Learning Site. This online learning environment provides access to courses for practitioners involved in school partnerships which aspire to be equitable and sustainable and which jointly explore global learning curricular goals. There is something here for schools at all stages of the partnership journey - for those actively engaged in partnership and for those thinking about a new partnership.

Our suite of courses

A school partnership is a learning journey for staff and students. This suite of professional development courses draws on the experience of hundreds of schools in the UK and in African, Asian and Caribbean countries.
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An Introduction to Global School Partnerships - if you are on the first, preparatory step, this course is for you.

Course aims

The course will enable you to:

  • explore the contribution that global education can make to school curricula and ethos
  • consider the practicalities of developing a new partnership
  • decide whether this kind of partnership is right for you and your school
  • identify the support that is available from Global School Partnerships and from others.

Otherwise...if you are more experienced and have started climbing the school partnerships stairway then the following courses are for you...

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Education for Global Citizenship *** NEW COURSE ***

Course aims

  • This course will help you explore ways of enhancing Education for Global Citizenship in your school and classroom

Education for global citizenship is essentially about equipping the young people that we teach for the world they will live in as adults. We don’t know for sure what the world will be like in the future but we can have aspirations and use our expertise as educators to help young people to acquire the outlooks, understandings and skills that can put these aspirations into practice.

In this course you will explore ways of enhancing global citizenship in your schools and classrooms. We will draw on the experiences of schools working with international partners to illustrate the sorts of powerful learning experiences that can result.

This course complements Equitable, Diverse Partnerships and Sustainable Partnerships courses.

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Equitable, Diverse Partnerships course

Course aims

This course will help you:

  • improve or maintain the equity of your partnership;
  • identify ways of engaging with and building on diversity to enhance your partnership relationship and provide rich and powerful learning contexts.
Equitable, diverse partnerships provide a context for teaching and learning which:

  • identifies and builds on commonalities between teachers, learners and communities world-wide;
  • respects and engages with differences;
  • critically reflects on current and historical global interdependencies and inequalities and considers the effect that these can have on partnership relationships;
  • promotes an open-minded, reflective global outlook.

By developing inter-cultural and global awareness you will be able to better understand, create and support effective partnerships with schools working in contexts that are different to your own.

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Sustainable Partnerships course

Course aims

The course will enable you to:

  • examine your existing school partnership relationship
  • identify strategies and practices that will support and enable the effectiveness and sustainability of your partnership.

Establishing an effective, sustainable school partnership is not a straight-forward process. As school partnerships develop and mature, deeper and longer lasting impacts can result. Some partnerships become an integral element of the ethos of the schools involved. This course is intended to support partnerships with this aspiration.

By developing inter-cultural and global awareness you will be able to better understand, create and support effective partnerships with schools working in contexts that are different to your own.

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What do I do next?

If you want to try the site out before registering, you can browse the introductory course by clicking on the “Try it out!” button above. This will give you guest access to that course but you will not be able to record any of your reflections as you work through it.

If you have registered on the previous version of this service, then login with your usual username and password and you will find your current work available in the new site.

If you are ready to register to gain full access to the courses, simply click on the "Click here to register" link and fill out the simple registration form. Once you are registered, you can return to this website to manage your personal information, password and username settings as well as enrol on additional courses.

The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We are a registered charity; 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). We create international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and build trust between them worldwide. We call this cultural relations.