Reflecting on what has already been achieved
You and your colleagues are already achieving a great deal that gives pupils the knowledge and understanding, skills, values and attitudes that enable them to accept and relish becoming global citizens. This is achieved through the ethos of the school, the teaching and learning in all the subjects across the curriculum and the whole-school experience of pupils.
Whether a school is starting to consider the global dimension of teaching and learning, or whether it already has it well established, it is important to review the provision, affirm achievements and then consider the extent to which the main ideas of the global dimension can be further consolidated to raise standards across the curriculum.
The global dimension in your curriculum
The activity on the right enables you to carry out an audit of where your school is up to in bringing the global dimension to the curriculum. This audit should build on one which was completed earlier, so that progress in integrating the global dimension into your curriculum and the wider life of the school can be measured and celebrated. In Unit B3 we consider a number of tools for carrying out an initial audit of the global dimension in your school. These tools should be used again after an agreed period of time, so that progress can be seen. Guidelines for using these auditing tools are repeated in the activity opposite.
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Activity
Look back at Unit 3 and remind yourself of the following:
- calculating your school's global footprint;
- development of global citizenship characteristics;
- Hart's ladder of participation;
- linking between local and global.
All staff need to be involved in the audit. You could look at schemes of work and observe a session in each other's classrooms. The outcomes could then become the focus of an INSET day. Once you have repeated the audit you will need to draw up a revised action plan for the future.
