18th CKY issue

Learning Communities
sharing session on
Global education
Learning Community sharing session (Global Education for Teachers)
Five teachers recently conducted a sharing session where they shared insights from the
Global Education for Teachers online course that they completed with UCL. As an IB
World School, building students’ sense of global citizenship and a wider appreciation of
international issues that impact the world is important for everyone in our community.
Below, one of our teachers offers some general advice for how teachers can raise
awareness of global citizenship, and a student reflects on how what they have learnt
during maths class relates to global education.
Global Education - General tips for teachers!
I feel lucky to have joined the course
“Global Education for Teachers” run
by University College London. This
course widened my view about
education and teaching, having
gained especially a great deal of
insight into resources and new ways
to guide my future teachings. Thus, I
think there are a few useful tips for
teachers that can be share:
1. Global education can be
implemented in the teaching of any
subject at school and teachers can
begin with their lesson plans. Open
up different opportunities for
students to connect what they have
learnt to what people are doing
everyday in the real-world. It can
begin first from the local perspective,
b e f o r e c o m p a r i n g w i t h a n
international viewpoint.
2. While encouraging students to
critically think and reflect about the
wider world, teachers should also
recognize that learners are coming
into the classroom from different
backgrounds, so teachers must
consider opinions and responses to
situations from a variety of
perspectives, which may differ from
their own.
Finally, teachers are students too! I
will be encouraging colleagues to
share their thoughts on Global
Citizenship Education issues and as a
whole school we will develop and, in
turn, raise any Global Citizenship
Education learning that is already
taking place to another level.
Mr Forrest Li
Mathematics Teacher
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