1. Equip young people for life
and work in today’s world.
https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/teaching-core-skills
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2. DO YOUR STUDENTS PRODUCE NEW AND
INNOVATIVE IDEAS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS?
Can they reflect critically and make effective decisions?
Develop critical thinking and problem solving (CTPS) in your school through this comprehensive
9-10 week core skills training which offers a blend of face-to-face sessions and online support.
During this programme you will:
• Explore referenced evidence of how CTPS can be taught and assessed
• Receive practical examples how to develop CTPS in your schools
• Identify opportunities within your schools to develop CTPS skills
• Receive an internationally referenced basic theoretical understanding of CTPS
• Develop leadership, project management and self-evaluation techniques to embed CTPS in your
practice
The programme will focus on four key
features of CTPS:
• Solving non-routine problems and questions
• Considering different perspectives on issues
• Evaluating evidence for and against different
positions
• Understanding the deep structure of issues
To develop these features of CTPS, three
teaching strategies will be practised:
• Asking questions to develop deeper thinking
and check for understanding
• Modelling how to think critically and solve
problems
• Providing systematic feedback and
corrections
OVERVIEW AND CONCEPTS
Supported by
WANT TO EXPERIENCE TEACHING
PRACTICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?
Teachers from over 30 other countries in
the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and
South and East Asia are also involved in
this programme.
As well as engaging online with other
practitioners around the world, your
participation could result in visiting another
country to observe and reflect on your own
teaching practice.
More information about engaging
internationally is coming soon.
See all dates and courses online:
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/
blog/connecting-classrooms
These programmes are run by Creative
Education on behalf of the British Council and
are fully funded.

3. HOW EMBEDDED IS CITIZENSHIP IN YOUR SCHOOL?
Develop Citizenship in your school through this comprehensive 9-10 week core skills training which
offers a blend of face-to-face sessions and online support.
During this programme you will:
• Learn leadership and self-evaluation techniques to embed Citizenship in your curricula and
across your school
• Confidently meet the requirement to promote British values
• Explore ways in which Citizenship can be taught
• Identify opportunities within your school to develop Citizenship
• Receive an internationally referenced basic theoretical understanding of Citizenship
• Discover how a critical exploration of values with school students supports their understanding
of what it means to be an active citizen
• Unpack key concepts to help support pupils in taking informed and effective action as citizens
This programme will focus on four features of
citizenship, exploring how they interrelate and
how citizenship values, understanding and skills
can be developed in school.
1. Citizenship as a Status (Rights and Duties)
2. Citizenship as a Feeling (Identity and
Belonging)
3. Citizenship as a Practice (Making a
Difference)
4. Citizenship as a Competence (Participation
skills)
Supported by
See all dates and courses online:
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/
blog/connecting-classrooms
These programmes are run by Creative
Education on behalf of the British Council and
are fully funded.
WANT TO EXPERIENCE TEACHING
PRACTICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?
Teachers from over 30 other countries in
the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and
South and East Asia are also involved in
this programme.
As well as engaging online with other
practitioners around the world, your
participation could result in visiting another
country to observe and reflect on your own
teaching practice.
More information about engaging
internationally is coming soon.

4. DO YOUR STUDENTS COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY
AND ACTIVELY LISTEN TO EACH OTHER?
Will they work in diverse teams – assuming shared responsibility,
delegating and compromising?
Develop collaboration and communication in your school through this comprehensive 9-10 week
core skills training which offers a blend of face-to-face sessions and online support.
During this programme you will:
• Receive practical examples how to develop
communication and collaboration in your
schools
• Explore how communication and
collaboration can be taught and assessed
• Identify opportunities within your schools to
develop communication and collaboration
skills
• Receive an internationally referenced basic
theoretical understanding of communication
and collaboration
• Develop leadership, project management
and self-evaluation techniques to embed
communication and collaboration in your
practice
• Learn how to embed communication and
collaboration skills in the curriculum and in
classroom practice
Supported by
See all dates and courses online:
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/
blog/connecting-classrooms
These programmes are run by Creative
Education on behalf of the British Council and
are fully funded.
WANT TO EXPERIENCE TEACHING
PRACTICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?
Teachers from over 30 other countries in
the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and
South and East Asia are also involved in
this programme.
As well as engaging online with other
practitioners around the world, your
participation could result in visiting another
country to observe and reflect on your own
teaching practice.
More information about engaging
internationally is coming soon.

5. WHEN DID YOUR SCHOOL LAST RETHINK ITS
APPROACH TO DIGITAL LITERACY?
Are your students enabled to discover, master and communicate
knowledge and information in a globalised economy?
Develop digital literacy in your school through this comprehensive 9-10 week core skills training
which offers a blend of face-to-face sessions and online support.
Supported by
See all dates and courses online:
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/
blog/connecting-classrooms
These programmes are run by Creative
Education on behalf of the British Council and
are fully funded.
During this programme you will:
• Have an opportunity to become active
learners through planning and implementing
your own enquiry to enhance digital literacy
in your own school
• Receive practical examples of how others
have developed digital literacy
• Work with others to identify opportunities to
develop digital literacy within your schools
and contexts
• Explore referenced evidence of how digital
literacy can be incorporated into practice
• Receive an internationally referenced basic
theoretical understanding of digital literacy
and its core elements
TANGIBLE RESULTS FOR YOU
AND YOUR SCHOOL
See the difference by implementing your own
enquiry or intervention with colleagues and/or
students:
• Capture evidence of activities, impacts and
outcomes
• Review and reflect on lessons learnt,
impacts, what went well, and what could be
improved
• Communicate key findings to others
e.g. colleagues, parents, students, wider
communities, and to other participants on
the training
• Refine and develop approaches and next
steps for further embedding digital literacy
in schools and classrooms
WANT TO EXPERIENCE TEACHING
PRACTICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?
Teachers from over 30 other countries in
the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and
South and East Asia are also involved in
this programme.
As well as engaging online with other
practitioners around the world, your
participation could result in visiting another
country to observe and reflect on your own
teaching practice.
More information about engaging
internationally is coming soon.

6. NURTURE CREATIVITY IN YOURSELF, IN PUPILS, AND
WITH COLLEAGUES
Develop creativity and imagination in your school through this comprehensive 9-10 week core
skills training which offers a blend of face-to-face sessions and online support.
During this programme you will:
• Plan projects, lessons and challenges that promote creative thinking in learning
• Relate creative approaches to real-world challenges
• Understand the issues involved in assessing creativity and undertake meaningful assessment
• Collaborate to plan and lead professional development through reflective practice
• Learn strategies to consciously nurture and develop the creative capacities of your pupils
Supported by
See all dates and courses online:
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/
blog/connecting-classrooms
These programmes are run by Creative
Education on behalf of the British Council and
are fully funded.
Creativity is often strongly associated with the
arts but the ability to think creatively has a
vital role to play across the whole curriculum
including STEM subjects.
This programme is designed to help you
understand how to apply creativity in a range of
different contexts and purposes.
WANT TO EXPERIENCE TEACHING
PRACTICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?
Teachers from over 30 other countries in
the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and
South and East Asia are also involved in
this programme.
As well as engaging online with other
practitioners around the world, your
participation could result in visiting another
country to observe and reflect on your own
teaching practice.
More information about engaging
internationally is coming soon.

7. NURTURE LEADERSHIP IN YOURSELF, IN PUPILS,
AND WITH COLLEAGUES
For your pupils, growing up in an increasingly diverse world where physical, social, cultural, political
and technological boundaries are ever blurring, developing leadership attributes is as important as
subject knowledge.
Develop student leadership and personal development in your school through this
comprehensive 9-10 week core skills training which offers a blend of face-to-face sessions and
online support.
Supported by
See all dates and courses online:
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/
blog/connecting-classrooms
These programmes are run by Creative
Education on behalf of the British Council and
are fully funded.
On this programme you will:
• Build character, resilience and grit in your
pupils in a bid to secure a government
character award
• Plan projects, lessons and challenges that
promote leadership in learning
• Relate leadership scenarios in school to
real-world challenges
• Understand the issues in enabling students
to lead meaningfully
• Collaborate to plan and lead professional
development through reflective practice
This programme is designed to help you:
• Understand how to enable students to
lead in a range of different contexts and
purposes both in and out of school
• Learn strategies that enable you to
consciously nurture and develop the
leadership capacities of your students
• Grasp how leadership capacities relate to,
for example, team-work, problem solving
and resilience
• Apply leadership skills to challenges and
real life contexts, and appreciate the place
of self-awareness as a driver for leadership
WANT TO EXPERIENCE TEACHING
PRACTICES IN ANOTHER COUNTRY?
Teachers from over 30 other countries in
the Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and
South and East Asia are also involved in
this programme.
As well as engaging online with other
practitioners around the world, your
participation could result in visiting another
country to observe and reflect on your own
teaching practice.
More information about engaging
internationally is coming soon.

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https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/teaching-core-skills
www.creativeeducation.co.uk/blog/connecting-classrooms