How to use this site
The Teach Global courses and resources have been developed to support primary and secondary teachers wanting to extend their teaching of the global dimension through all aspects of school life. Two of the courses focus on managing this process and two look specifically at curriculum issues. The secondary course focuses on the teaching of geography. A fifth course presents ways of incorporating the global dimension into Science lessons for Key Stage 2-4 (pupil ages 8-16).
Teach Global is located within the Open University's TeachandLearn.net site, which offers a comprehensive range of resources and courses to support all aspects of professional development. It is planned that accreditation, linked to the Teach Global resources, will be available in the Autumn of 2006.
Teach Global resources can be used in a variety of ways and follows the principles established for TeachandLearn.net.
You may wish to browse these areas, picking out issues, debates and resources of particular interest. You might want to work consecutively through the courses, trying out ideas and approaches that are set out in the activities. In planning the development of the sites a number of teachers said that they often worked with a colleague or a group of colleagues and that they found this the best form of professional development. A year team or a subject team could try out in parallel some of the activities and then share the evaluation and the experience together. As Teach Global develops we will be sharing the different ideas and approaches developed by members.
