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A toolkit for measuring attitudinal change in global citizenship from early years to Key Stage 5

Description:

This toolkit aims to help teachers target their efforts to deliver Global Citizenship effectively and measure the impact of their teaching.

It grew out of RISC's Global Schools project, which involved six schools (four primary and two secondary) in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. They developed these activities as a baseline audit to measure pupils' knowledge, attitudes and values at the start of the project. Teachers then worked with RISC staff to embed Global Citizenship across all subjects and throughout the whole school.

The activities were repeated two years later and results compared with the first audit, enabling teachers to see how effective their work had been and to plan and further develop the global dimension in each curriculum area. After another two years the project ended with a final audit providing evidence of the effectiveness of a whole school approach in delivering Global Citizenship.

After introducing the themes and learning objectives of Global Citizenship and some 'warm up' ideas, the toolkit details 16 activities where teachers can get some idea of pupils' knowledge, values and attitudes. Each activity has guidance on recording and analysing results, and case studies showing how another school has used this activity. Examples of activities are: "what would you see in a country in Africa?"; "how can I make the world a better place?"; "what's the same, what's different?" (when looking at pictures); and "why are people hungry?". The activities are appropriate for all ages and would also be worth doing with groups of teaching and non-teaching staff. An accompanying CD has all the images required for the activities and templates for recording results.

This is a great resource which clearly explains the point of each activity, how to run it, how to interpret the results, and what to look for when repeating the activity; with case studies providing examples of useful teaching strategies.

Items:

Book, CD-ROM

• Price: £19.95
• ISBN: 978-1-874709-10
• No of Pages: 116

Items
Subjects:	Audits
Topics:	Global citizenship
Age Ranges:	3-5, 5-7, 7-11, 11-14, 14-16, 16+
Keystages:	Pre-school, 1, 2, 3, 4, 16+, Teachers
Publication Date:	2008
Publishers:	Reading International Solidarity Centre