connecting classrooms

Editor's Notes

• #2: You might like to show the film at the beginning of the session – it lasts about 4 minutes and you will need sound. This session will take about 45 minutes.
• #3: Introduce team (add officers overseas)
• #4: Ruth: Read this slide then play the video
• #7: In order to respond to different educational priorities around the world, Connecting Classrooms also offers flexibility through a unique menu of additional options. Connecting Classrooms recognises that education systems are different around the world and therefore allows us to “think globally but act locally”.
• #8: Collaborative Curriculum Projects and school links are the key focus for CC LAC. The main aim is to create the opportunity for clusters of schools to from sustainable partnerships through developing joint projects which focus on pupil to pupil collaboration to create global citizens of the future
• #9: This will be provided through access to the leadership tools already produced and also through the opportunities provided to the international co-ordinator course.
• #10: We will talk more about the ISA later
• #12: Connecting Classrooms in the LAC Highlight total numbers of schools – 3 year programme, Started with leadership focus (SLANT) now largely focussing on school links and collaborative curriculum projects but the leadership work with pilot cohort still continues and your schools may be interested in accessing the toolkit for example. Next year another 95 schools.
• #13: Overview of CC Programme Up 3 years of organised activity – hope partnerships will continue for many years. Professional Development – for teachers and Principals. Vital that school leaders are supportive and understand the international partnership. Teachers can develop skills for leading international work within the school. Partnership – workshop to prepare for Contact Seminar, Contact Seminar to meet partners and plan joint projects, Joint Curriculum Projects for students and teachers to learn together £1,500 per school (actively working on partnership – not ‘sleeping’ partners!). Year 2 MED schools visit UK, Year 3 UK schools visit MED. Visits should be done in this order unless there is very good reason for a swap. There is more budget for MED schools (as there are more of them) so we need to be able to plan how much budget is required each year. It also alternates the visits – Year 1: contact seminar in MED. Visits organised by schools themselves – apply for funding from BC. Who visits, for how long etc can be decided by the schools using the travel grant as the whole amount or through raising additional funding. Partnership Partnership between schools, not the British Council! We provide opportunities to meet, framework to work within and grants to enable visits. They must establish the partnership and keep it alive themselves with the support of colleagues in their schools. BC is here to help. Important you set the ground rules for your partnership together, understand each others’ expectations etc. Important! Contact Seminar is not a one off seminar – it’s the beginning of a long term partnership Expectations that schools will work together, communicate, produce project materials Very important to establish good relationship at the contact seminar ISA and CCO Overview of the programme. We will go over the grants and timeline in more detail now this is just to contextualise
• #14: The next two slides are in addition if this session is being run at the ICC course rather than at the contact seminar.