Teachers need more 'Prevent' support

• Confident in safeguarding children against the risks of radicalisation, just as they are with other safeguarding issues.
• Much less confident in how to create a safe space within the school for children to discuss difficult global issues – to empower young people to think for themselves about issues of tolerance, conflict, and interdependence.

Think Global’s Chief Executive, Tom Franklin, said, “The news is full of difficult global issues – war, radicalisation, conflict, terrorism. Teachers need support to create safe spaces for pupils, to be able to explore their ideas and concerns.”
 
Read about Think Global’s views on ‘Prevent’ on our website.
 
For more information about our work on Prevent, please contact our Head of Programmes, Sarah Williams

Global Educator of the Year Award

Recognising excellence in teaching about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We are pleased to announce the return of our Global Educator of the Year Award for 2016. This year's award focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals. If you know of someone who has been doing a great job teaching about the SDGs why not nominate them? They stand to win £500!

Find out more about the Award. Send in your nominations by Friday 27 May 2016.

Consumer Classroom

New European project

Think Global is excited to announce our participation in another new European project. Consumer Classroom is an interactive community website providing advice and resources for teachers on how to help students become informed and responsible consumers. 

Managed by French NGO ‘Expertise France’, the project team includes partners from all across Europe, and aims to create a sharing space where teachers can learn from and advise each other on consumer issues as they appear across diverse curricula.

Head of Programmes Monika Kruesmann said “This is a really great opportunity to further build our expertise and networks for sustainability education. Because it is a website-based project, we’re also really looking forward to sharing our expertise with online resources, which we keep updated with our popular Global Dimension Website.”

Learning for Action - Bringing the Sustainable Development Goals to life

Think Global & British Council joint seminar, 22 March 2016, 18:00-20:00

Book your free place at this event

This first in a series of three joint seminars uses examples from London schools to examine the conditions that need to be in place for behaviour to change to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Speakers include Alison Bellwood (World’s Largest Lesson) and Zhi Soon (NESTA Behavioural Insights Team).

Register here for Seminar 2: Education for the SDGs - a critical role for global skills on Wednesday 27th April 2016.
Register here for Seminar 3: Putting global skills at the centre of our workplaces on Wednesday 15th June 2016. 

Think Global's Head of Programmes Monika Kruesmann said: "We're really looking forward to this set of seminars and making connections with people who, like us, are keen to make the SDGs happen."

Our first donation

from Talented Teacher Jobs

And finally, a big thank you to the folk from Talented Teacher Jobs who recently made us their charity partner this year. We regularly feature their jobs on the Global Dimension website and they donate £5 to us for every paid job advert they run.

Find out more about partnering with Think Global from Tom Franklin email: tom.franklin@think-global.org.uk.