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Providers of professional learning and resources to support Global Citizenship Education across the North of Scotland. www.highlandoneworld.org.uk #GlobalCitizenship #LearningforSustainability
*Celebrating World Book Day this week?*
Check out the Signposts searchable Fiction List to find recommendations of fantastically engaging books for learners of all levels, on a wide range of topics.
➡️ www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org/fiction/
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A new course for primary & secondary teachers across the North of Scotland. Explore how to take an Anti-Racist approach to reading, writing, listening and talking at First to Fourth Levels.
Find out more & register for this free online course ▶️ tinyurl.com/bdhfezab
If you work in an ELC setting or P1 class in Scotland there's still time to register for our free professional learning session next week! Get inspiration to help children explore and celebrate our diverse world with curiosity, empathy and respect
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Happy Lunar New Year - welcome to the year of the fire horse! If you'd like to explore this with your learners, check out this primary education pack from @britishcouncil.bsky.social
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Our next SDG seminar is for primary and secondary teachers across Scotland.
Join us for this session with Mohamed Omar to hear lived experiences of asylum in Scotland and try out teaching methodologies to address the misinformation around the asylum issue in the UK.
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GTCS registered teachers in Highland!
Still time to sign up for our Introduction to Anti-Racist Education professional learning sessions. The course for Highland Secondary teachers is this Monday!
Delighted to be welcoming Fischy Music to our upcoming Global Teachers' Network.
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Some spaces still left for this free professional learning session for all GTCS registered teachers in Scotland. See you there?
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Burns, Belonging and Song: A Bitesize Lesson Plan Explore this classroom-ready lesson linking Burns, music and art ahead of Robert Burn's Day in this bitesize CPD session.
Looking for a new exciting way to explore Burns and his relevance to contexts today?
Join us for this lesson plan where we will explore Burns as an inspiration for Karine Polwart's song about welcoming others and belonging.
📅 January 15, 5.30pm-6pm
Book your free place here: buff.ly/e6cgwRl
Our next Global Teachers Network on 11 December focusses on using music and song for effective global citizenship education. With the amazing Fischy Music!
All GTCS registered teachers welcome.
Register▶️ tinyurl.com/fsmtzvf6
Today is #InternationalDayfortheAbolitionofSlavery - aiming to raise awareness of modern slavery & remember the history of the trade in enslaved people. Check out this fab resource for exploring slavery with 2nd & 3rd level learners, by our partner centre @wosdec.bsky.social
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Secondary teachers! We've just launched a series of new padlets - collections of fantastic global citizenship education resources for all secondary subjects. Take a look if you're wanting ready to use inspiration tailored to your subject.
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Still spaces available for the next seminar in our SDG series, free for upper primary and secondary teachers across Scotland. Carbon Colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown, with Dr Laurie Parsons. More info and booking here ▶️ shorturl.at/DKCJm
#LearningforSustainability
A group of people in a room, listening to a panel discussion on climate justice.
Terrific day at @ouscotland.bsky.social @howdec.bsky.social Mock COP in Inverness today. Talked to a group of students from all over the Highlands about what will happen at #COP30 - as well as the merits and drawbacks of the COP process, and what they can do as citizens. Feeling very energised!
Folks in or near Inverness, this talk on Monday 10th Nov will be fab! Free for students and under 18s. Iceland's Green Machine: Climate Positive
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Applications are now open for the next cohort of our year-long GTCS accredited course to gain Professional Recognition in LfS (Global Citizenship). For more info on this transformational course, and to apply see www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org/learning-for...
Our latest resource is now out in the world! Art for Action is a a creative toolkit to support upper primary and secondary teachers to facilitate creative, learner-led “artivism” projects focused on social justice and environmental issues.
Do check it out - and share!
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We have boxes of fab books to support Anti-Racist Education available to borrow for Early, First and Second levels. Pick up from Inverness - get in touch! info@highlandoneworld.org.uk To find out which books, and how best to use them, check out our Mirrors and Windows resource▶️ shorturl.at/KPtMZ
Using Scotland's new Anti-Racism Education Resource: a workshop for First Level practitioners Monday 22nd September 4.00-5.30pm
Looking to build your professional confidence in exploring Anti-Racist Education with your first level learners?
Join us for this workshop exploring the new antiracisted.scot resource.
🧠 Interactive activities
🧰 Classroom tools & methodologies
👥 Time to reflect with colleagues
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Welcome back teachers! Do remember to check out ⭐ www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org ⭐ for engaging and quality assured teaching resources on real world issues from refugees and migration to food and farming. Searchable by topic, level, curricular area and subject, and all available for free online.
Still spaces on our online course next Monday! For more info and to book a free space visit shorturl.at/F6hm0
#ThisisLfS
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Do you want to be part of creating a more just and sustainable world? @howdec.bsky.social are looking for a skilled and organised Administration & Finance Officer to join their small, committed team in #Inverness tinyurl.com/5afe757n £26,000 – £31,000 pro-rata, 1.5 days per week. hybrid
Looking forward to delivering this course at 5.30pm today. More than 200 teachers and ELC practitioners signed up, but there's still a few last minute spaces if anyone wants to join us!
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It's not too late to sign up to this session which we're delivering on Monday.
Book your place here bit.ly/3SsTbrj
Teachers. It's Gypsy, Roma & Traveller History Month. This month is about celebration, education & raising awareness, to help tackle prejudice, change the story, and amplify the voices of Gypsies, Roma & Travellers in wider society.
Check out this new resource from @fft.bsky.social
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What are National Climate Action Plans, also known as NDCs?
Discover what's behind this acronym and how young people can shape a more sustainable future via @unicef.org: www.voicesofyouth.org/young-person...
We now have boxes of books to support Anti-Racist Education available for free loan to any Inverness primary or nursery! 15 fab books for Early, 1st or 2nd level.
For more info and to download our new Mirrors and Windows guide check out shorturl.at/nOmhJ
A red graphic poster, adorned with images of speech marks, and the words Workshop Hosts Days one, 28-29 May 2025, Glasgow. The Open University Scotland logo is in a bubble on the right
A red graphic poster, adorned with images of speech marks, and the words Workshop Hosts Days one, 28-29 May 2025, Glasgow. The Highland One World logo (HOW in large letters) is in a bubble on the right
Another #CiSAC25 sponsor, @ouscotland.bsky.social is partnering with @howdec.bsky.social to deliver a workshop on their joint project Art for Action which facilitates ‘artivism’ in children and young people.
Find out more here: childreninscotland.org.uk/conferences/...
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