Teesside One World Centre - Current Projects



		PROJECTS Current Projects For further information about any of these projects please contact the named person or Naomi Priestley. RAPT (Refugee Action Project Teesside) A project supporting the Global Dimension in the School curriculum. more >> Go Global! This is a project working with out-of-school clubs across the Tees Valley and aims to explore the links between the lives of children in the region and those of children living in other parts of the world. We are working in one location per term. Training is provided for staff members and at the end of the sessions the young people choose how to inform their peers at school about what they have learnt. Go Global! is presently working in The King's Academy, Middlesbrough with the 'Cultures of the World' after school club. Next it will be working with Key Stage Two children at Abbey School, Darlington. Get Global: Global Dimension Audits for Schools Get Global is working with staff, governors and students in five schools to develop and complete an audit of the way the Global Dimension has been incorporated across the school to date and to plan opportunities for developing the Global Dimension further. For further information please contact Kathryn Hull at Teesside One World Centre. Global Citizenship Teesside One World Centre works closely with Oxfam and other organisations like Christian Aid, Action Aid, UNICEF, to promote the global dimension in the Citizenship Curriculum. We see the Global Citizen as someone who: · Is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as world citizens; · Respects and values diversity; · Is willing to act to make the world a more equitable and sustainable place; · Takes responsibility for their actions. Our library of teaching and learning materials supports the topics which fit into the three main themes of the Citizenship Curriculum: Political Literacy, Social and Moral Responsibility and Community Involvement. Educators are welcome to come and browse through our resources, affiliate to the Centre and borrow up to five items for two weeks or longer in agreed situations. We will also process orders for sale of copies of our stock on request. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – working with UNICEF Our staff have been trained by UNICEF to deliver sessions on the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as part of their Education Support Service. This is linked to the new UNICEF initiative Rights Respecting Schools (see http://www.unicef.org.uk/tz/teacher_support/rrs_award.asp). Sessions can be linked to all curriculum subjects as well as Global Citizenship and the knowledge and awareness which results from the sessions can be used to inform pupil behaviour and school ethos. If you would like to know more about our projects, please e-mail us. Funding for the work of Teesside One World Centre comes from a variety of sources such as: OXFAM, CHRISTIAN AID, UNICEF, Department for International Development (DFID), CLEVELAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, One World Network North East (OWNNE), the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Past Projects Promoting the Global Dimension through Development Education Resources This three year project, which finished in October 2006, supported secondary school librarians with the provision of development education resources and advice regarding their use. During the final year of the project resources were displayed at Dyke House School and High Tunstall School, Hartlepool and at the Secondary Citizenship PD Day at Grangefield School in Stockton on Tees. Learning from this project has led to the development of a new project to work with Primary Schools from 2007-2010 funded by One World Network North East. Raising Standards through Development Awareness (click for more information ) A major project which ran until 2005 Raising Standards through Development Awareness aimed to show how schools can increase levels of achievement in pupils as a result of the learning process which leads to 'Development Awareness' or a better understanding of the way the world works and the lives of people from different cultures. Moving On: Global Citizenship Support for Secondary Schools The Moving On Project follows on from work with four schools in the RSDA project. This project worked with two Specialist Status secondary schools on global citizenship during 2005-6. The aims of the project were: To help schools to move on from the point of small scale interest in Global Citizenship to a more holistic embedded practice of Global Citizenship throughout the whole school. To assess the use of the subject specialism in Specialist schools as the cross curricular strand to embed global citizenship To assess the inputs necessary to engage and support staff in implementing Global Citizenship in the whole school setting i.e. training, resources, planning support and classroom sessions. In two schools where pockets of interest already exist, we worked with a team of key teachers in departments associated with the particular specialist status and members of the school council to develop a consensus of how to work towards the use of the subject specialism for global citizenship across the whole school. Training was given to the specialist department staff and members of the senior management team to introduce them to global citizenship and participatory methodologies. This project was funded by Oxfam. Project results are available on CDRom. For further information please contact Kath Hull at Teesside One World Centre or email movingon@towc2.fsnet.co.uk Global Energy Champions A project working with out of school childcare facilities in Redcar and Cleveland. The facilities included Dots and Spots at Skelton Junior School, Saltburn Primary School Out of School Club and Newcommen Big Katt Club. The project involved children exploring issues relating to their own energy consumption and to global sustainable development. Learning from this project led to the development of the Go Global! project. home page....