International Education Week 2009
International Education Week takes
place 16-20 November this year. It's a chance to reflect on the
achievements across England in bringing an international dimension
to education over the past year.
In 2008-9...
| QCA cited an international link as being one of the most
effective routes to relevant, topical, 21st century learning
experiences, and QCA consultants co-authored the Global Gateway's
Linking
Toolkit. |
| 5218 schools from England were active on the Global Gateway
during the 2008-9 school year; nearly 800 applied for the full
International School
Award. |
| Because of the SEF mentioning the ISA, Ofsted inspectors now
discuss international links and cite their impact on the
curriculum in their
reports. |
| Ted Cantle of the Institute of Community Cohesion
recognised the importance of a global context for better
understanding within communities and wrote an introduction to the
Global Gateway's Community
Cohesion Toolkit. |
| The Global Gateway gained a London 2012 Inspire Mark for its
scheme to link
schools in preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic
Games. |
| Gordon Brown launched the Global Fellowship for
young school leavers, and expressed a hope that schools working
together globally could bring shared cultural understanding and
promote Education For All. |
| The Department for International Development has extended the
Global School Partnerships scheme following research and
evaluation, and would like to fund
5000 school links between UK and the global South, as well as
new schemes for young people to participate in voluntary
projects. |
| Both Eco-Schools
and the Fair Trade
Foundation decided to work with us so we could support schools
to have a global perspective (through a school link) to
support their exciting work on sustainability and rights. |
| Schools across England supported IEW by celebrating, sharing
and launching new partnerships and projects. For great
ideas why not look at some of the events that took
place in schools in IEW 2008. |
What are you doing to mark IEW this year?
IEW is an excellent opportunity to show the world how an
international dimension has benefited your school, college or
organisation. The DCSF encourages everyone at all levels of
education across England to join in the celebrations. It's a great
way to involve parents, nearby schools and local groups in
your school's activities.
See what schools are doing!
Schools choose from a wide range of themes, topics,
and formats for IEW - it really is up to you! We put together some
themes and
formats which you could use to build your own programme for any
global focus week. You'll find advice to help you
in organising and promoting your week on the
Planning page.
IEW and Global Entrepreneurship Week
The Make Your Mark Challenge is the
UK’s largest one-day enterprise competition.
It’s free to enter and it offers an effective way to engage 14-19
year olds in a fun and rewarding enterprise activity. You can
also find out what is going on in other countries and network with
them by joining the Unleashing Ideas community (age 13+)
More>>>
IEW is international
Find out what is happening around the world for IEW 2009. You
could start with the USA.
IEW and Children in Need
Children in Need happens on Friday 20th November this week - so
why not run some joint IEW-Children in Need events? There are some
fantastic lesson plans and activity ideas on the BBC Pudsey
website
IEW and the DCSF International School
Award
A
whole school event for IEW, planned and curriculum linked, is ideal
for one of the seven activities that count towards the Full
ISA award, or towards Intermediate Level. Involvement of a link
school or schools would enrich the activity and show the embedding
of links into school life (optional).
It's the perfect day to invite
guests, community leaders and artists. It all adds up to real and
relevant shared learning experience for the whole school!
