Learning from the wider world
Think about experiences you have had personally that could enhance your teaching of the global dimension. You may have been born, or have lived or worked, overseas. You may spend time with friends or family who were born or who have lived overseas. You may have holidayed in various parts of the world. Your pupils' learning can be enriched by hearing these experiences.
To complete the activity on the right, you will need to ask somebody to help you. Could you invite in a parent or friend who has lived or worked overseas? Is there a returned VSO teacher in your school, or a teacher who has taught overseas who you could invite into school to be interviewed by the pupils (and to talk to other staff) about their experiences?
The activity opposite focuses on an interview, and then invites you to think about ways of using links with other schools to introduce pupils to experiences of life in other countries.
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Activity
- Plan, and help your pupils to carry out, a structured interview with someone who has lived or worked overseas.
- Note down the learning outcomes.
- How does this interview contribute to bringing the global dimension to the teaching and learning in your own classroom?
- Plan ways in which learning from people with experience in different countries could be built into your existing schemes of work.
- If there is a link with an overseas school, discuss with teaching colleagues ways in which you can use this link to enrich the teaching of the global dimension across the subjects of the curriculum and throughout the school. If your school has no such link you can start making enquiries about school links by visiting the Department for International Development (DfID) section of the British Council website: British Council Here you will find a lot of useful information on linking with other schools.
