International Teacher Certificate

UNESCO site with lesson plans for teaching about sustainable development outside the classroom

A website about eating local food.

A movie about eating locally grown food and living healthily.

Useful resources about diversity and teaching differences to students.

An excellent 20 minute TED talk on the danger of stereotypes - would be good to use with older students - to discuss views that they have of different countries.

A website and video that imagines sending radiators to Norway from Africa because the people are freezing. A brilliant aid for students to challenge stereotypes and examine perceptions of other countries.

Article relevant to the reflective report for Standard 2

A useful summary of different types of assessment in the primary classroom

An article on assessment

Noam Chomsky - the purpose of education

Directions for Learning: The New Zealand Curriculum Principles, and Teaching as Inquiry, Education Review Office, May 2011* 22/07/2011 http://www.ero.govt.nz/National-Reports/Directions-for-Learning-The-New-Zealand-Curriculum-Principles-and-Teaching-as-Inquiry-May-2011/Teachers-inquiry-into-the-impact-of-their-teaching-on-students/The-extent-of-teachers-inquiry-in-the-classroom

This comes out every work so you might want to subscribe - online links to educational developments around the world

I found a very good free online course site which you may interest to enroll if ITC has not taken all of your free time. https://www.coursera.org

Here is another website which is great to encourage all students to think and discuss (even the ones who don't speak English.) There are some good activities students can write about after they have watched the videos. http://www.literacyshed.com/

My headteacher just shared with us this great website. It has a great list of resources to use in the classroom especially for standard 2. http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/

I'd like to share with you the website "100People: a world portrait - a global education toolbox": http://www.100people.org It's really interesting. It analyses global issues (e.g. water, food, health, economy) as if the world were 100 people. I think it might be particularly useful to develop Standard 2. Please, take a look

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19368988 Origins of the English Language....

I came across a guide from Oxfam UK about 'Education for Global Citizenship' whilst researching Standard 2. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/gc/files/education_for_global_citizenship_a_guide_for_schools.pdf Perhaps it is useful for others with their Global Issue topic. It has some background information about why it is important for students to become global citizens, and also has some lesson ideas for the different Key Stages and how it ties into the National Curriculum.

An article about free online courses offered by Harvard and MIT for those who can't afford them.