The Global Learning Programme - Wales (GLP-W) is a three-year funded programme that aims to embed global learning practices in schools through school networks. It supports schools by providing training, resources, and opportunities to share ideas and best practices. The goal is to have half of Wales' schools engaged with the program by July 2017. The program hopes to help students understand their role in an interdependent world and explore ways to make it more just and sustainable by familiarizing them with concepts like interdependence, development, and globalization. It also aims to stimulate critical thinking about global issues and promote greater awareness of global poverty reduction.

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Wales
Bill Burson – Programme Manager
In partnership with

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What is the GLP-W?
• A three-year funded programme
• Supports schools to embed good
practice in global learning through the
creation of school networks
• Focused on sharing practice and ideas
• Supported by access to high quality
training and resources.
Target - Half of Wales’ schools will engage
with the programme by July 2017
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What do we want the GLP-W to do?
• Help children and young people understand
their role in a globally interdependent world
and explore ways by which they can make it
more just and sustainable
• Familiarise pupils with the concepts of
interdependence, development and
globalisation
• Stimulate critical thinking about global
issues, both at a whole school and pupil level
• Help schools promote greater awareness of
global poverty and how it can be reduced
• Enable teachers to explore new and
alternative ways of teaching about
development and sustainability in the
classroom.
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Programme Structure
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• Lead Schools recruit and develop
Network Schools on a two-year
cycle
• Schools assess practice through
the Global Learning Self
Evaluation (GLSE)
• GLSE automatically generates
Next Steps and can be used to
measure progress over time

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Network timeline

6. Why should schools engage with the GLP-W?
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ESDGC (especially the GC bit!)
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Training, resources and support
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Curriculum enrichment
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A relevant and exciting context to
develop literacy and numeracy
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To prepare pupils for the wider world
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7. Education for Sustainable Development and
Global Citizenship (ESDGC)
• Common Understanding (2008)
• Outlined what ESDGC “is” for
schools, teachers and learners
• Note: ESDGC is part of the of
the Estyn common inspection
framework
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8. ESDGC “Progress” Review – June 2014
Schools should :
• improve pupils’ understanding of the more complex ESDGC
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concepts;
• plan for the progressive development of pupils’
understanding of ESDGC across the curriculum, and assess
and track pupils’ development;
• plan for ESDGC to make a positive contribution to
developing pupils’ literacy and numeracy;
• provide a variety of extra-curricular opportunities to support
ESDGC;
• identify members of staff to have responsibility for co-ordinating
and developing ESDGC across the school;
• provide appropriate training for teachers and other staff to
help them to deliver ESDGC more effectively, including its
more complex concepts;

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Training, Resources and Support
• GLP-W training & PD
- Provided directly to Lead
Schools
- Lead Practitioner
accreditation
- Lead-Network reflection of
practice
• GLP-W website
- GLSE
- Latest News
- Teaching Resources
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10. Enriching the curriculum and providing a
context for developing Literacy and Numeracy
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11. The value of global learning to pupils
Practical:
75% of board- and director-level executives and CEOs think that “we are in
danger of being left behind by emerging countries unless young people
learn to think more globally”
The Global Skills Gap. (2011) Think Global and British Council
Personal:
• Social responsibility
• Cultural, racial and religious respect
• Empathetic and rights aware
• Prepared for a more sustainable future
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12. What next?
Recruitment:
- Further Lead Schools (Deadlines in 2015)
- Around 700 Network schools (by 2017)
Resources:
- Subject specific and cross curricular
- Stronger support for Literacy and Numeracy
development
- Case Studies of identified effective practice from
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schools in Wales
Sharing
- Via school networks, events, newsletters, website and
partners