...in formal education

Our main aim in relation to the formal education sector is to promote more effective and widespread teaching of development issues in schools. We are currently working with key governmental and non-governmental educational bodies across the UK to provide guidance on how teachers can incorporate development issues into their teaching. There is a guidance document for schools in England (521 kb) and one for Scottish teachers(685 kb). Guidance covering the curricula in Wales and Northern Ireland is to follow.

Another important part of our work involves ensuring that teachers have access to development education resources, both material, and human and organisational. In 1999, we commissioned an Audit of Formal Sector Development Education Resources to provide a clearer understanding of what is currently available. The Global Dimension website includes over 500 evaluated resources for teachers to use across the curriculum.

Enabling Effective Support (EES)

The initiative supports the development of regional strategies that involve voluntary and non-governmental organisations, government agencies and local authorities in working together, responding to the challenges of educating young people in a changing, globalised society.

The regional programmes that have developed have three things in common: they enable planning and implementation of collaborative programmes that develop a global dimension in education at local, regional and national levels; they involve teachers, initial teacher educator (ITE) tutors, advisers and others working together to develop their own responses to the challenges; they support schools and teacher training colleges to integrate global dimension issues, concepts and approaches into curriculum and development plans. Find out more about the Bringing the World into the Classroom(1.6 mb). Please note we are currently revising the EES booklet and it is due to published early next year

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DFID Global School Partnerships (DGSP)

DFID Global School Partnerships (DGSP) programme promotes partnerships between schools in the UK and schools in the South. The programme provides advice and guidance, professional development opportunities and grants to schools that are using partnerships as a means to develop and embed a global dimension within their curriculum.

SOS announced an increase in April 2006 which will more than double the funding to the DGSP - an additional £4.3m over the next 3 years – making a total of £7.5m since the DGPS commenced in 2003.

Schools can apply for the following types of grants:

• Reciprocal Visit Grants of up to £1900 for visits to each partner school to develop a partnership and enable teachers to plan joint curricular projects with global dimension themes;
• Global Curriculum Project Grants of £5400 per annum for a maximum of 3 years to enable teacher travel and curriculum development for established partnerships. A Travel Grant of £2800 per annum for students of secondary school age to undertake visits in Years 2 and 3 of the Global Curriculum Project grant.

Further information about the programme and how to apply for these grants, can be obtained by going to the British Council’s website . The deadlines for these applications occur throughout the year.

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Race Against Global Poverty game

Race Against Global Poverty is an interactive educational quiz game from DFID. Aimed at young people aged 11 to 16, the online game makes learning about the developing world fun and stimulating.

Featuring attractive animation and animal characters, it increase players' understanding of development through questions about world poverty and DFID's work to tackle it.

The game is one of a range of activities that DFID is providing to young people to raise their awareness of development issues and get them involved in the fight against poverty. Play the game online here.

Race Against Global Poverty is also available as a free teaching resource on CD Rom. To request a free teaching pack, call 01375 484 541, email dfidpubs@ecgroup.co.uk using the reference RAGP8.

Race Against Global Poverty teaching pack files to download: -

Lesson Plans for 11 to 13 year olds

Lesson 1 (1,876kb)
Lesson 2 (271kb)
Lesson 3 (762kb)
Lesson 4 (171kb)
Lesson 5 (907kb)
Lesson 6 (1,491kb)
Curriculum mapping (55kb)
 

Lesson Plans for 14 to 16 year olds

Lesson 1 (2,092kb)
Lesson 2 (177kb)
Lesson 3 (949kb)
Lesson 4 (893kb)
Lesson 5 (954kb)
Lesson 6 (1,491kb)
Curriculum mapping (34kb)

Activity sheets

Poverty Levels Across the World 1 (3,597kb)
Poverty Levels Across the World 2 (3,979kb)
Barriers to reducing poverty (167kb)
Department for International Development (168kb)
Are we winning the fight against poverty? (170kb)
Life route plan (164kb)
US and UK (194kb)
Zambia and Malawi (194kb)
Millennium Development Goals (168kb)
Immediate Action Required (167kb)
 

Last updated 4 September 2008