How to learn … Shakespeare

With a Bard’s birthday celebrations on 23 April, what improved time to share some of a smashing teaching resources a Guardian Teacher Network has to offer on Shakespeare? A discerning indicate of a network will exhibit hundreds of lessons and training ideas on a many renouned Shakespeare plays complicated in school, though here is a beam to some highlights.

Globe Education has common inspirational training resources and ideas that yield students with singular opportunities to correlate and rivet with Shakespeare, from a www.playingshakespeare.org website.

First check out this teachers’ guide to a site. This year, Globe Education is focusing on Romeo and Juliet, a play (along with Macbeth) many complicated during school, and so many people’s initial confront with Shakespeare.

Why did Shakespeare strech for rhyme in his many regretful play, notwithstanding vacant hymn being lucky from a 1580s for a realism? Globe Education’s Rhyme in Romeo and Juliet explores this. Incredibly, a transformation of a play takes place in reduction than 4 days. Find some useful insights on time and also see records on a generation gap that has kept a play resonating with teenage audiences for hundreds of years. More ideas on a themes of Romeo and Juliet are explored here.

The Globe’s active and unsentimental proceed to training Shakespeare is brought into a classroom with these activity briefs and templates designed to assistance students rise a artistic processes indispensable to entertainment a prolongation of a play – a best approach to know and suffer Shakespeare. Find a poster pattern brief and concomitant template, and a set pattern brief and template. Students meddlesome in dress can find pattern templates for male and female characters,  together with this creative dress pattern brief, and for serve discernment students can listen to an talk with a Globe’s conduct of wigs, hair and makeup. This beam to building content into a opening of Romeo and Juliet is also invaluable.

Globe Education has partnered adult with Hodder Education to move a universe of actors, a operation room and opening on entertainment together in some enchanting multi-touch books for a iPad. Four plays are accessible – Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, a Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado About Nothing – here on iTunes. And for Shakespeare’s birthday month of Apr a multi-touch books are accessible during a reduced cost of £3.99.

Students can also listen to podcasts of Shakespearian actors: Joseph Marcell talks about about his practice of personification Shakespeare and how he feels about being expel as King Lear, and Paul Chahidi opens adult about voice, content and transformation work for personification Maria in a 2012 all-male prolongation of Twelfth Night.

Thanks to English clergyman Sarah Jane Swann for pity her exciting, sensitive and super-engaging Shakespeare lessons on a site. Find this waggish Introduction to Shakespeare in a form of a processed PowerPoint – it’s one of a many renouned resources on a Guardian Teacher Network in that students get to pleasure in a irritability of a Bard. The doctrine is combined for delegate propagandize students, though teachers in primary schools have commented that it also works for year 6 groups. Swann has also combined this illusory doctrine to assistance students feel some-more gentle with Shakespeare’s denunciation and work with Elizabethan judgment structure, directed during levels 5-7. Her processed PowerPoint on Shakespeare and love is another jewel. Activities embody formulating a dating form for Shakespeare’s ideal lady and research of Shakespearian chat-up lines. An talented doctrine on Shakespearian sonnets will assistance pupils clear their meaning.

Digital Theatre Plus, that works in partnership with some of a UK’s heading entertainment companies to constraint live performances of acclaimed productions, has combined resources to move them approach into a classroom. We have David Morrissey on personification Macbeth (together with a Is this a dagger we see before me? speech), Julia Ford analysing a denunciation she uses as Lady Macbeth and Michael Attenborough on King Lear. Also find this guide to a characters in Much Ado About Nothing focusing on Beatrice, presumably Shakespeare’s biggest comic role.

And finally, for any clergyman who has been asked in a fussy tinge … “but because do we have to do Shakespeare?” do see Was Shakespeare a initial mafiosi rapper? for inspiration.

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How to learn … domestic campaigning

Young people are mostly indignant about misapplication they see in a universe and wish to take movement to right wrongs. The Guardian Teacher Network has teaching resources to assistance students of all ages learn how they can get their indicate of perspective listened locally, nationally and even globally, and hopefully make an impact.

Start off with some unequivocally useful resources from Send My Friend to School, that is partial of a Global Campaign for Education. The debate thesis this year is a worldwide necessity of teachers – it is estimated that 1.7 million lerned teachers are indispensable to get each child into propagandize – over 1 million in Africa alone.

First, immature people need to get a hoop on a issues. This processed secondary propagandize PowerPoint introduces a 2013 Send My Friend to School activities and explores a real-life stories of children blank out on education, a contribution and total behind a tellurian clergyman necessity and how schools can get involved. There is also a PowerPoint for top primary, and reduce primary propagandize pupils get their possess super-simplified version.

For some-more inspiration, find prepared box studies of children from a building universe who have had to onslaught for their education, including a story of Malala Yousafzai.

The Global Campaign for Education has designed a apparatus book to assistance immature people spin a classroom into a debate office. Not certain how to write a press release? This DIY press container template is unequivocally useful and can be simply blending for other campaigns. Also see this doctrine devise on persuasive writing.

MPs can seem rather apart figures, and it’s critical for children to realize they are inaugurated by a internal village and there to paint all a people in their constituency, including those too immature to vote. This guide to a day in a life of an MP sets out what MPs do and how to get in hold with them. For politics basis for year 9 and above see this great guide.

Can what we have to contend here in a UK unequivocally make any disproportion to children out of propagandize around a world? This fact sheet lays out a sequence of influence, display how a voices of children in a UK can strech universe leaders, and how those leaders’ decisions impact schools and children in a lowest countries.

An instance of best use in this margin is given by citizenship clergyman Ben Miskell, who remade his classroom into a debate centre final year when his students went to work to convince MPs to commission Malala Yousafzai for a Nobel assent prize. You can listen to a BBC Radio Sheffield talk of a campaigners here. Thanks to Ben Miskell for pity this PowerPoint of 6 lessons operative on setting adult a propagandize council/student voice project.

Amnesty International’s Speak Free: Freedom of Expression PowerPoint is a good introduction to a impact campaigning and vocalization out can have. Find out how to form your possess Amnesty propagandize organisation here .

A small bit of story now, find this engaging apparatus from a People’s History Museum on Campaigning for a Cause, containing facsimiles of 3 strange campaigning papers from a museum’s archives, including a Let Britain Act for Peace Petition, that was sent out to MPs opposite a nation (when?).

Another stream debate your pupils competence wish to rivet with is a No More Page 3 campaign. This is a petition that children and teachers can pointer and could be used to beget some useful discussions in mentor time or a PSHE classrooms on sexism and a arise of “raunch culture”. Stephanie Davies-Arai of a No More Page 3 campaign, and owner of a Lewes New School, has common investigate on a impact of page 3 stereotypes and also ideas for a secondary doctrine plan. The impact of sexism was highlighted by a NUT during a discussion in Liverpool final week; find out some-more here.

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How to learn … phonics

From a many maligned pivotal stage 1 screening exam that asks children to sound out difference such as “drall”, “halp” and “snope”, to a stream welcome of a fake phonics indication in UK schools, how to learn reading and essay is a theme of prohibited debate.

All schools will have their possess favourite phonics programme. But either we are Floppy fans or find fun in Jolly or elsewhere, a Guardian Teacher Network has some glorious resources to element phonics work in propagandize and during home and assistance your pupils to learn a many critical lessons of their lives.

To find them, revisit www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network

An moving start is a Teach your beast to read diversion to use a initial stairs of reading. It was combined to rise early literacy and is built on a beliefs of fake phonics, following a teaching process of a letters and sounds programme. Find a

guide to a diversion here. Teach your beast to review is set in a universe with 8 islands and children have to denote believe of 4 graphemes to finish any island and pierce on to a subsequent one. There are lots of sparkling things to do on a approach that concede a actor to use critical elements of reading and a game’s primary aim to to rise children’s speed and correctness of grapheme/letter recognition.

Children can get to grips with graphemes in this processed “ir, ue, aw, ue, wh, ph” PowerPoint with sounds and movement buttons, and here is a “ay, ou, ie, ea, oy” version. These appealing ready-to-print 200 high magnitude words from phonics letters and sounds will also be useful in a primary classroom.

This interactive online doctrine on reading CCVC and CVCC words will assistance children mix phonemes in difference including clusters that need to be treated as a singular sound when blending.

For those who wish to ready for a year 1 phonics screening test, this set of 40 cards containing both genuine and pseudo difference (the latter illustrated with artistic cinema that could lead to some new difference being incorporated into a English denunciation – maybe an ulf will turn one of your pupils’ favorite animals, or even a vap). The difference are formed on a representation materials supposing by a STA. If we go to www.primarytools.co.uk we can find a unequivocally useful electronic tracking spreadsheet for a category of 33 pupils that is colour coded and automatically adds adult a measure per student and per word. More phonics exam use can be had regulating this literacy comment tool.

Thanks to Alan Davies from Thrass for pity these English phonics beam and check superintendence records for teachers. The apparatus contains some glorious ideas for category training for learners of all ages and abilities, including means and talented, those with training problems and EAL students – with superintendence on assisting learners contend a right sound when they review and select a right letters when they spell.

For beautiful training resources that couple phonics work with animal topics find E is for Elephant and other animals and S is for Seagulls and other animals.

This phonics bingo game is fun and ideal for reinforcing training on phonics and words.

Internet materialisation and full-time primary propagandize clergyman Mr Thorne, of Mr Thorne Does Phonics fame, is good value investigating. His fabulously interesting and educational videos, where we can get to know Geraldine a training Giraffe a small better, can be found on YouTube. For iPad fans, we can download a Mr Thorne Does Phonics: letters and sounds app.

Also endorsed is a a Ladybird – I’m Ready for phonics app that covers, with a assistance of Captain Comet, initial minute sounds, phonemes, graphemes and all those wily difference that can means even a many efficient student to stumble. There are brief videos of a phonemes being pronounced and a pupils can record themselves too.

Macrophonics offers a lovable phonics alphabet for use in propagandize and during home. Pupils can daub a minute to hear it and afterwards there is a brief fun film display a word in movement charity some context for it. It is giveaway for a iPad. Funimal Phonics is a good app for pupils initial removing to grips with their minute sounds.

Burt’s Reading Recovery intrigue has been used by many schools to yield additional converging for pupils in pivotal theatre 2 who are struggling with reading, formed on a letters and sounds system. Find some unequivocally useful worksheets for Module 1, Module 2, that deliver a 5 vowel sounds, Module 3 that introduces blending, Module 4 that blends consonants and vowel digraphs and finally Module 5 that covers some-more modernized blends.

There are practitioners who disciple choice methods to a stream phonics indication taught in schools. Mona McNee is an 89-year-old reading clergyman and supporter who grown a Step by Step decoding complement of phonics formed on 26 letters and but peep cards. Rather than letters and sounds ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, Mona McNees’ process uses a order that singular letters can contend a prolonged vowels, for instance a sorcery e rat/rate, them/e, pip/e, cut/e. Her process has some fervent supporters and many people, including prisoners who never schooled to review when they were during school, have mastered reading by her resources. Her proclivity to keep banging a drum over so many years? “The chagrin of not training to review does not bear meditative about.” So here are some choice resources that might be of sold use for teachers who are operative with children or adults who haven’t schooled to review a initial time round. One of Mona McNee’s many fervent fans, who taught his 3 children to review regulating a scruffy duplicate of her strange Step by Step manual, combined phonics4free.org to share a work. Here is lesson one of Mona McNee’s complement with ancillary games Snakes and ladders 1 and Snakes and ladders 2.

For those who wish to do some some-more investigate into phonics and beyond, see a Rooted in Reading pass report that looks during some pioneering work finished by a CfBT Education Trust with Lincolnshire County council. Their reading graduation plan combines high peculiarity training of phonic work with equally high peculiarity incentives to review for delight and information. The news shows that interrelated incentives can assistance children rise a healthy ardour for reading by rewarding their success as they swell from beginners to learned readers as they swell by 12 reading passports, and creates fascinating reading.

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How to learn … superheroes

Creative curriculum fans during some primary schools dedicate whole half-terms to superheroes, for good reason. From teaching truth and ethics by a dilemmas of Peter Parker (AKA spiderman) to arithmetic with a genuine pow and, of course, inspirational artwork, a thesis will constraint a imagination of children of all ages.

So a Guardian Teacher Network has zapped together some superhero-inspired resources to assistance inject some “zam” and “zwosh” into lessons.

We start with primary propagandize clergyman Des Hegarty’s how to make a superhero fly scholarship project, that achieves thespian formula with zero some-more than an dull cosmetic divert bottle and a bit of label — a apparatus includes a Rocket Robert template and gets immature students a ambience of some good scholarship vocab.

All superheroes need a good picture – and dress engineer and builder Tamsin Thorne from www.iwishiwasa.com has some talented ideas on creating super identities and creation superhero costumes.

The preparation group during a Phoenix weekly story comic (aimed during key stage 2 though with comparison and younger fans) has some illusory resources for superhero work. Find cartoonist Neill Cameron’s beam How to pull overwhelming superheroes and a concomitant Superhero masterclass activity sheet where students can uncover some ‘superskills’ and finish off a senses-shattering superhero comic. Also find male and female manikin total to pattern a dress for and emanate your possess extra-super superhero.

Students can rise their design work on heroes and villains and this help sheet includes a beam to things that is overwhelming and things that is scary.

This beam to what creates a good character helps children rise their visible education by looking during how characters, including superheroes, are combined and introduced around images and difference in a comic.

Writing dialogue? This thought burble challenge will assistance students rise content and will prompt good discussion/interaction.

Here is a fun set of comic book-style templates to inspire pupils to consider creatively. For instructions on how to make your possess mini-comic see How we make comics by illustrator Sarah McIntyre.

In ICT, children can make their possess comic, online, with Culture Street’s Super Action Comic Maker — it’s a good literary tool, quite to get relunctant boys writing. Another place to examination is during artisan.cam.org.uk, which is shining for utilizing images and facilities a lot of a standard superhero and comic-strip styles and themes.

Children can turn partial of an chosen squadron of scholarship superheroes by personification Team WILD. This sparkling and severe educational diversion provides an event for immature people to turn practical superheroes with a goal to strengthen and preserve a planet’s class and habitats from drop – from jungle to savannah, rainforest to coral reef. Find teachers’ records on a diversion here.

Reward a superheroes in your classroom with this eye-catching superhero certificate and we can adorn your classroom with this fantastic banner. Pupils can also design a new superhero gadget for a Green Flash.

Times tables can be lots of fun with this superhero themed computation chart.

Secondary school-aged pupils don’t have to embankment superheroes interjection to maths clergyman Mel Muldowney. For an ideal introduction to coexisting equations, though indeed regulating any algebra, find Mel’s smashing superhero themed maths-based starter questions. And Vector snakes and ladders with a superheroes and villains thesis is a good intro to translations/transformations in pivotal theatre 3 maths.

Older students can learn how to make a simple, effective animation regulating Photoshop with this guide, a resource, that is created for year 11s though can be used by comparison or younger students, focuses on a work of Muybridge though can simply be blending with a superhero twist. Also find Culture Shop’s beam to regulating Photoshop to emanate comics.

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How to learn … financial education

With financial preparation embedded in a new maths and citizenship curriculums from 2015, schools have a good eventuality to supply immature people with a knowledge, skills and certainty they need to conduct their personal finances.

The Guardian Teacher Network has resources to assistance learn financial preparation to students of all ages.

A good start is to applaud Learn Money Week, that runs from 15-22 March, a tellurian eventuality being upheld by a financial preparation gift MyBnk in partnership with a Young Global Leaders of a World Economic Forum. The aim is to assistance immature people to conduct their income and also to lift recognition of a need for financial preparation for immature people.

MyBnk’s Money Marathon Game takes 90 mins to broach and is an interactive set of quizzes and activities on a house diversion for delegate school-aged students. You’ll need a instructions for a game, an A3 printable chronicle of a board and dice to play. There is an glorious PowerPoint quiz that can be used as partial of a diversion or as a standalone resource. Packed with jaw-dropping facts, a ask introduces a concepts of saving, borrowing and interest. Also find a Save-o-meter worksheet, that illustrates how a tiny volume of income saved frequently can supplement up.

These financial preparation icebreakers from MyBnk give some-more unsentimental ideas and activities to kick-start your financial preparation lessons.

MyBnk also offers giveaway financial and craving programmes facilitated by consultant trainers to schools and girl organisations in London and a surrounding areas. Teachers and girl workers can ask sessions here.

Another date for your diary is Pfeg’s My Money Week, that runs from 3-9 Jun 2013, opposite a UK. Teachers can pre-order a giveaway My Money Week Pack containing artistic financial resources and ideas on teaching financial education. Find this moving case study of Glasshouses primary propagandize in North Yorkshire, that organized a transition devise about how to keep a cost of vital low while selling in a encampment and ancillary a internal economy.

Pfeg has been during a forefront of a debate for financial preparation to turn a mandatory partial of a new curriculum for 2015 and has combined formulation frameworks designed to assistance support a formulation and comment of financial preparation during pivotal stages 1-4. Teachers can download a primary framework, and a breeze chronicle of a delegate chronicle is accessible here. Pfeg would adore to hear your feedback on a frameworks; email info@pfeg.org to have your say.

Find Pfeg’s guide to training about income in a primary classroom, packaged with good activity ideas for use with early years adult to tip pivotal theatre 2 and examples of picturesque and artistic ways to learn about income in a classroom. Also find a parent’s guide to articulate to primary-aged children about money.

An talented response to financial preparation for primary propagandize students is explored in Financial fairytales, that uses elementary maths and preparation exercises in multiple with financial preparation and craving themes to assistance immature children rise an bargain of income by fairytales.

Barclays Money Skills has combined a illusory set of financial preparation resources. Sort your spending is a accessible self -help beam that provides immature people with a collection and information they need to start handling their money. The beam assesses pupils’ “money personality” – do they spend income on impulse, or devise weeks forward and devise each purchase? Topics and unsentimental exercises embody budgeting, identifying income wasters, gripping a spending diary, building a budget, tip tips for spending less, how to boost your income and building savings.

Barclays has also grown endless apparatus packs opposite a age range. The key theatre 2 apparatus pack builds financial skills as good as ancillary numeracy, including a useful activity on bargain a disproportion between a need and a want, a pivotal training indicate being that in life we customarily can't means to have all we want, so we contingency prioritise by putting what we unequivocally need initial (definitely a profitable doctrine to learn young).

The key theatre 3 pack focuses on a practicalities of banking, a opposite forms of bank accounts accessible to immature people, and how to open and use a bank account. It ends with a good activity on budgeting for a party.

Of course, students aged 14-16 need to make sensitive financial decisions for themselves, and a key theatre 4 pack is a good beam for teachers assisting students to build their financial skills for a successful eccentric life, with activities on budgeting and building recognition of a financial implications of their personal choices. There is a toolkit for over-16s here.

Finally, interjection to maths clergyman Mel Muldowney for these glorious real-life maths activities, that are going to be even some-more useful with a new curriculum’s renewed importance on financial mathematics. In Exchange rates pupils contingency modify pounds to Australian dollars and clamp versa during an eccentric outing from Scotland to Australia, and in Electricity bill students need to calculate a balance.

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How to learn … Red Nose Day

Red Nose Day 2013 is scarcely on us. Two-thirds of schools will be doing something humorous for income on 15 Mar and they can sequence giveaway fundraising packs congested with stickers, posters, balloons and ideas.

The Red Nose Day preparation group has common a set of curriculum-linked teaching resources on a Guardian Teacher Network to assistance schools applaud Red Nose Day and also to demeanour over it, to try a themes behind a initiatives Red Nose Day supports in Africa and a UK, from providing purify H2O to finale mental-health stigma.

Start with this secondary propagandize assembly and concomitant teachers’ notes. It revolves around examination Welcome to My World, a brief film in that we accommodate Dennis, a bright-eyed, football-obsessed 13-year-old boy, vocalization ideal English and critical in misery in Mukuru dive in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dennis tells us what happened when his home was burnt by a dangerous oil lamps slum-dwellers are forced to use, as they have no electricity, destroying his initial span of football boots, that his silent had sacrificed so most to buy for him: “But we only take it and live … and try to live”. Also find Dennis’s World poster, that picks out some of a themes and stats, including a fact that 70% of Africa’s civic race live in slums.

Younger primary school-aged children get to accommodate eight-year-old Robert in their assembly. Again, a relocating film profiles Robert, who tells us what it’s like to live in a slum, and what happened when a tractor came and broken his prior home. There’s an assembly to go with a film and teachers’ notes. There is also a printable poster, Robert’s World.

Primary school-aged children can try serve and pull comparisons between their lives and those of children critical in civic slums regulating this photosheet together with key theatre 1 and key theatre 2 doctrine plans.

Early-years and foundation-aged children can rise their bargain of a universe by anticipating out about four-year-old Ronika, who lives in an civic dive in Kenya. Who is Ronika? is a array of photographs of a tiny lady as she goes about her daily life. In this art and pattern activity, Objects for Ronika, immature pupils can pattern and emanate objects that would assistance Ronika in a new home. Children get to make their possess collection box in a figure of a house, that they can take home and use to collect tiny change for Red Nose Day.

Red Nose Day is a fundraiser (and in 2011 lifted £108m), though it is also really most about lifting recognition and bargain of a issues behind causes it supports.

One of a initiatives upheld by Red Nose Day is Time to Change, that works to finish a tarnish and siege surrounding mental-health problems. With one in 10 immature people experiencing mental-health problems, it is a critical area for contention in schools. Many immature people feel incompetent to speak about their problems, deepening their feelings of siege and heading to detriment of friendship, and eventually preventing them from removing a assistance they need. A good commencement is this tutor time quiz, that will assistance immature people to rise their bargain of mental-health problems and plea a misconceptions. Also find this mental-health myths and contribution poster to arrangement in class.

More in-depth work on mental health is explored in a Stand Up Kid activity, that supports a Time to Change film. Students get to try and plead mental-health problems and describe a filmed knowledge to their possess propagandize life. Also find Don’t be fearful to talk, delivered by scenarios and role-play. Students can oath their support to finish mental-health tarnish and taste on a Time to Change pledgewall.

Another delegate doctrine good value downloading uses a Lives no knives inspirational box examine of a plan set adult by a immature lady in Croydon to tackle blade crime in her area. Also find this concomitant worksheet.

Back to Africa, delegate school-aged students can learn some-more about because immature people live in civic slums, a hurdles they face each day and a formidable choices they make to survive, with this Life in an civic dive presentation and compared lesson plan. There’s also an glorious key theatre 3 English lesson in that students can rise their compositional skills by essay an ominous journal or repository article.

For an general focus, try a What disproportion can we make examine activity for pivotal theatre 3 students to examine Comic Relief’s general statistics of change in embankment and citizenship classes, with this related worksheet.

And finally, here’s a rousing Red Nose Day strain – find a score and lyrics.

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How to learn … a Mali conflict

Thousands of people have fled fighting in Mali. Some have crossed a limit into beside countries such as Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso. The dispute was frequency mentioned in a news until France stepped into a ravel final month and many younger people know really small about it.

The Guardian Teacher Network has resources to assistance immature people try a dispute by citizenship, English and embankment lessons and beyond, to find out what a dispute is about and since France is involved. There are also some educational guides to deliberating a wider issues of conflict.

Get down to a basis with this Mali Explainer. The apparatus sets out a context and story of a dispute as good as explaining what’s going on now, who is concerned and what impact this is carrying on a people of Mali. The Guardian Teacher Network‘s Explainer array is designed to give credentials to news stories immature people competence know small about, a Explainers are pitched during 11- to 14-year-olds, though they are constructed as word papers creation it easy to adjust for comparison or younger students.

The Explainer can be used as a welfare for meddlesome students or as partial of a doctrine or mentor time regulating a concomitant News in Focus on Mali. This is a processed PowerPoint display of 22 photographs by photojournalists that gives an overview of a dispute by images.

More context to a Mali dispute is supposing by Plan UK, that has been distributing propagandize kits to children in Ségou in executive Mali and regulating weekly catch-up classes to assistance replaced girls and boys keep adult with their propagandize work as partial of their “education in emergencies” work. See Children in Crossfire to find out about Ahmed, a child who was forced to rush with his father from Timbuktu since armed insurgents sealed all schools in northern Mali. The father and son fled to Ségou, fasten over 30,000 replaced people. Ahmed’s mom and siblings are still in Timbuktu, around 1,000km away. Also find out about a life and hopes of a 13-year-old lady from Mali in Meet Bintou.

The British Red Cross has common some thought-provoking discussion ideas on a dispute in Mali. Many refugees arrive during placement points run by assist agencies though money, wardrobe or food. What do students consider their priority would be? In a bad country, with most difficulty and gunfire, who competence help? Also find a charity’s War Wounded resource, in that students analyse a absolute photograph regulating these discussion points. The resources assistance students try what behaving with amiability during an armed dispute competence entail and find out since it’s critical that a laws of fight need warring parties to yield medical assistance to harmed enemies.

Oxfam‘s Making clarity of universe conflicts is an implausible apparatus sketch on outrageous amounts of source material, box studies, and nation information. The doctrine skeleton will assistance delegate school-aged students examine a formidable theme of dispute including a stream problems in in Mali. The lessons build strength in inquiry, contention skills, high-level logic and artistic meditative and demeanour during pivotal issues in today’s world, including: conflicts now holding place, a connectors between dispute and poverty, how a arms trade works, and when a dispute turn a war.

Amnesty International has constructed this Mali Unrest briefing, that gives a brief comment of Mali’s history, charts a human-rights violations that occurred in 2012 during a disturbance to a north of a nation and sets out Amnesty’s calls on a supervision of Mali and general community. This request has been created as a press lecture rather than an preparation resource, though teachers and sixth-formers will find it invaluable.

Of march a conditions in Mali is changing each day. For a latest news on what is function see a Guardian’s Mali section, where we will also find this useful interactive on a conflict.

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How to teach… Fairtrade Fortnight

The thesis of this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight (25 February-10 March) is smallholder farmers. In building countries a smallholding is customarily reduction than dual acres, though notwithstanding tillage such little amounts of land, smallholder farmers furnish many of a food consumed in their communities. Currently 75% of all Fairtrade producers are smallholders.

The Guardian Teacher Network has some illusory training resources to assistance schools demeanour during a lives of smallholder farmers, and a broader themes of fair trade.

The Fairtrade Foundation‘s Schools movement beam 2013 is packaged with ideas on how to get your whole propagandize village meditative about a reasons because bad farmers in building countries onslaught to tarry and how fair trade can assistance renovate their lives. Also find this pupil activity sheet.

Schools can sequence a giveaway Fairtrade Fortnight 2013 schools movement pack, including stickers and posters.  Also see a step-by-step guide to apropos a Fairtrade schooll.

Traidcraft‘s glorious assemblies for primary and secondary schools give a good introduction to a judgment of tiny hilt farming.

Traidcraft also explores how fair-trade ideals are represented in Hindu beliefs, quite exploring a concepts of dhama and kismet in this worksheet.

Students can find out about Sansar Chand and his family, who are members of Agrocel, a rice flourishing associated in India, and exlore a doctrine on compelling Fairtrade in their community.

Where in a universe is food grown? explores where Traidcraft buys a Fairtrade commodities, including sugar, rice, raisins, honey, quinoa and blueberries. To work on a concepts by a middle of dance, see these useful teachers’ notes for an activity where key-stage-2-aged children emanate a Fairtrade dance to tell a story of a sugarine tillage village that wants their sugarine to be Fairtrade.

Teachers can ask one of Traidcraft’s 500 proffer speakers to come in and tell their propagandize more.

ActionAid has common this glorious Chembakolli PowerPoint looking during how Adivasi genealogical communities furnish Nilgiri tea and how their tea is being traded fairly.

Christian Aid has also combined some thought-provoking assemblies for this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight. Pupils are asked to simulate on a advantages of fairer trade on a lives of people vital thousands of miles away, with a sold  focus on chocolate producers in Ghana. Secondary propagandize teachers can find a processed PowerPoint and teachers’ notes. Primary propagandize teachers can download presentation chronicle for younger students and a accompanying notes.

The Pa Pa Paa Live webcast plan is good value checking out. It allows your pupils to promulgate live with Fairtrade cocoa farmers. This PowerPoint presentation tells we a bit some-more about a plan and follows a day in a life of Raphael, a son of a Fairtrade cocoa rancher in Ghana.

Sticking to a chocolate theme, Christian Aid has devised a appetizing Chocolate Trade Game where pupils snippet a tour of a cocoa bean from tree to chocolate bar, and along a approach learn a problems workers in a chocolate trade face. The diversion highlights a certain partial that trade can play in communities that are building their economies. Find introductory activities and teachers’ notes. Children can use these role-play templates to renovate themselves into character, from supermarket owners to consumers to fairtrade cocoa farmers, in credentials for an sensitive debate. Find some additional information on a chocolate trade in Ghana and prompts for a follow-up contention to extend and explain learning.

If all this speak of chocolate stirring your pupils, see sum of a Divine Poetry competition. This year’s foe is judged by Geraldine McCaughrean and pupils aged 7 and above get to write about what chocolate means to them and a world.

For a healthier choice to chocolate, pupils can try a story of how a common banana gets from a Caribbean to a UK in Oxfam‘s illusory Go Bananas print gallery. Find all 6 Go Bananas lessons, training ideas and fairtrade impulse here.

• Join a Guardian Teacher Network village guardian.co.uk/teacher-network for giveaway entrance to training resources and an event to share your own. There are also thousands of teaching, care and support jobs on a site. Visit jobs.guardian.co.uk/schools.

How to learn … LGBT story month

Many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have done outrageous contributions to science, maths and engineering – only demeanour during Alan Turing (pictured) and Florence Nightingale, for instance – though this isn’t mostly distinguished in a classroom. This year’s LGBT story month has a Stem concentration so it’s a ideal event to acknowledge a achievements of LGBT scientists, mathematicians and engineers.

Stonewall‘s School Report 2012 reveals that half of immature people are not taught anything about lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans issues or purpose models, and 50% of happy immature people knowledge homophobic bullying. The news found that happy pupils are reduction expected to be bullied in schools that learn and residence happy issues definitely (76% compared with 46%), that underlines a significance of classroom exploration.  

The Guardian Teacher Network has some glorious resources to assistance we learn LGBT story month. A useful start is LGBT pioneers in Stem, a processed PowerPoint that profiles distinguished and reduction good famous lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who had an impact on science, technology, maths and scholarship and helped to change a world, including Leonardo da Vinci, Margaret Mead and Sir Francis Bacon.

The LGBT story month toolkit has been specifically created for this year’s story month and is packaged with tips on how and because to move LGBT story month into your school, including some engaging doctrine ideas.

Schools Out has constructed this Alan Turing doctrine plan for pivotal theatre 4 students  exploring a work of a computing colonize by ICT. See a compared PowerPoint, question sheet and answer sheet.

Key theatre 2 students can examine a life of Anne Lister, a lesbian who lived in Victorian times and wrote her personal diary in code. The cross-curricular doctrine plan looks during gender temperament and draws courtesy to Anne’s nickname Gentleman Jack. Also find a PowerPoint to uncover in difficulty and dual unsentimental activities: make your possess code wheel and invisible ink.

Hidden history is a pivotal theatre 3 doctrine questioning because a story of minority groups including LGBT competence be dark or retold, also see a concomitant PowerPoint.

Music teachers can try trans issues regulating this lesson plan and PowerPoint by award-winning clergyman and LGBT supporter Elly Barnes, that use song from Priscilla Queen of a Desert to try definitions. Also see Elly’s introduction to LGBT story month here.

Guerrilla Geography Day on 7 Feb explores themes of gender inequality and illustration including transgendered people. This guide sets out how to combine in a action.

Stonewall also has resources to assistance we applaud LGBT story month. Start with The Gay Thing. It’s a Nuisance Isn’t it? that looks during because teachers should worry integrating lesbian, happy and bisexual issues into their lessons. Gay FAQs looks during questions from what to do if a student thinks they competence be happy to how to speak to pupils about being a happy teacher.

History and The Gay Thing explores because it’s a bad thought to omit a sexuality of good group and women and zephyr over historial attitudes to homosexuality in story lessons and beyond. Stonewall has constructed a whole set of The Gay Thing theme guides including English, science and religious education.

The Stonewall Teachers’ Report creates sobering reading. Nine in 10 delegate propagandize teachers and some-more than dual in 5 primary propagandize teachers contend children and immature people, regardless of their passionate orientation, now knowledge homophobic bullying, name job or nuisance in their schools. Also see Stonewall’s guide to severe homophobic language.

Schools can sequence tough copies of Stonewall’s LGBT story container by emailing education@stonewall.org.uk. You can find out some-more about how Stonewall can support your propagandize by their Schools Champions programme, that offers schools tailored support on rebellious homophobic bullying and formulating an thorough sourroundings for happy immature people, including celebrating LGBT story month. And we can sequence Stonewall’s fanciful “Some people are gay. Get over it!” posters and stickers here.

Amnesty International has constructed an LGBT month activity pack and also has a doctrine on homophobic language in that students cruise how to tackle homophobic bullying and brand actions that could be taken on a emanate by a difficulty and individually. Budding reporters and photographers can concentration on LGBT rights in their entries to a Amnesty Young Human Rights Reporter of a Year competition. Find a doctrine devise exploring a new photojournalism difficulty here. The foe ends on 18 February.

Join a Guardian Teacher Network village www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network for giveaway entrance to teaching resources and an event to share your own. There are also thousands of teaching, care and support jobs on a site. Visit http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/schools.

Guardian and Promethean Partnership Helps Educators Find Jobs

London, UK (PRWEB) Jan 30, 2013

The Guardian and Promethean (LSE: PRW), a tellurian preparation association announced a vital partnership during Bett 2013 to post pursuit listings for educators on Promethean Planet, an online village of 1.5 million members.

The Guardian Teacher Network pursuit inventory facilities hundreds of new jobs from schools in a UK and opposite a world. The inventory is updated daily and can be searched by pursuit purpose or location. Since a use was launched in Apr 2011, it has helped thousands of teachers secure glorious jobs.

Wendy Berliner, Head of Education, Guardian Professional, says: “This is a smashing event for dual rarely respected, tellurian brands to partner for a advantage of educators opposite a world. In a really rival jobs market, this gives pursuit seekers an corner and saves essential time for busy, committed professionals.”

The dual companies also concluded to open a Guardian Teacher Network of over 100,000 pages of giveaway training resources for all age groups and for all vital subjects to all Promethean Planet members. These interactive whiteboard activities and doctrine skeleton can be used by teachers to update curriculum used in a classroom, emanate lessons that motivate and rivet students and urge training and training productivity.

“We are vehement to be operative with a Guardian to enhance a support we yield to teachers around a world. With a new pursuit listing, millions of teachers who have come to a village to collaborate, sell best practices and find resources can now try for their next, new opportunity,” pronounced Lupita Knittel, Chief Marketing Officer, Promethean.

Bett 2013 attendees can see a new Guardian Teacher Network resources in movement during a Promethean mount (C80). While visiting a stand, they can preview a 7” Android inscription that will be preloaded with Promethean’s comment program and see a multi-user, multi-touch ActivTable regulating Windows 8.

Promethean Planet was determined only over 6 years ago and is used by some-more than 1.5 million educators. The online village provides contention forums, veteran growth opportunities and a flourishing bank of interactive digital resources from 63 world-class arts, scholarship and preparation organizations such as NIA/NASA, a National Theatre, Georgia Aquarium and a Royal Geographic Society.

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