e-learning & CPD

Bring the world into your classroom and inspire students and colleagues about global issues. Browse taster material from our short and easily accessible online training course, Developing a global learning school.

Amy and Kate run the modules for an hour on Tuesday afternoons over six weeks. Both Amy and Kate are teachers and trainers too.

This taster will look briefly at 'International Development and Poverty' which is one topic of six module topics covered on this top-rated online CPD course. 

The modules enable teachers to reflect upon global learning ideas and resources. The modules always give techniques and content to try back at school. Participants say that, as well as discovering new resources, they love collaboration and group discussion with their colleagues taking the course. Over the six weeks they build a good relationship and support each other with specific challenges.  Please try our taster course slides available under topic 2. below.

The topics for the six modules include:
1. Introduction to global learning 
2. International development and poverty– exploring definitions with your students
(Please note: these are sample course slides. This taster sample does not include; teaching notes, weekly reading lists, bespoke resource recommendations or session recordings.)
3. Thinking critically about global learning resources in English, maths and science
4. Thinking critically about global learning resources in history and geography
5. Embedding global learning across the whole school
6. How does global learning support the Ofsted framework?

Forthcoming course dates:
>  16 September 2014 (Runs six consecutive Tuesdays 16:30-17:30)
>  04 November 2014 (Runs six consecutive Tuesdays 16:30-17:30)
>  06 January 2015 (Runs six consecutive Tuesdays 16:30-17:30)
>  24 February 2015 (Runs six consecutive Tuesdays 16:30-17:30)
>  14 April 2015 (Runs six consecutive Tuesdays 16:30-17:30)
>  02 June 2015 (Runs six consecutive Tuesdays 16:30-17:30)

To book a place or to find out more please email us at schools@think-global.org.uk

Courses are available to all schools. If you teach in a school that has registered for the Global Learning Programme and that has completed its Whole School Audit you can use GLP e-credits to fund the £200 cost of the courses. To find out more about the GLP, visit the GLP website.

Here is what teachers say about our top-rated training.....

"Think Global's training has reignited my enthusiasm for global learning and encouraged me to develop this at my new school." – Sanjo Jeffrey, Secondary Teacher at Edmonton County Lower School.

"The trainer, Amy West, took a highly personalised approach to the identified needs of the participants, so that we were all able to come away with a helpful pathway to developing ourselves as leaders in Global Learning in our schools."  Louisa, Braunton Caen Primary in Devon

Think Global also runs the Global Dimension website offering a wide range of resources and training as well as free membership to our network of 10,000 teachers. Our free Global Learning Guidelines consider how students,  teachers and school leaders can all play part in developing a global learning school.