Building your GCE (Starter Schools/ Teachers) Workshop 2022

This training is designed as a follow-on training from the ‘Starter Workshop’ to learn more about a critical approach to GCE. Included is a recap of the starter training and last’s years theme of ‘Degrowth’. If you haven’t watched the ‘Starter Workshop’ yet, we suggest watching this first here.

Workshop Resources

Video Recording

In this training, we look at the Guiding Principles of GCE, a soft versus critical approach to GCE, how to ‘Dig Deeper’ and how to scaffold our activities with a critical approach in mind. It includes some activities and group work to move from theory to practice. 

Access here the recording of the ‘Building your GCE’ training.

Presentation

Please find the genial.ly presentation here.

Alternatively, you can download the pdf version of the ‘Building your GCE training’ presentation here.

Activity resources

Activity documents (download to edit):

• Digging Deeper Questions and Video Link
• Scaffolding Guide Activity

WWGS Guides

• WWGS ‘How-to’ Guide – Guiding Principles of GCE on page 6-7
• WWGS Global Passport Framework 

Other resources

Resources in pdf

• Teaching for sustainable development through ethical global issues pedagogy: A resource for secondary teachers
• Centre for Global Education: Let’s Talk SDGs
• Financial Justice Ireland – From Grassroots to Governments : A Politics and Society resource
• Bridge 47 – GCE for Unknown Futures (Soft versus Critical GCE)

Websites

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Methodologies and theory to explore global issues from a decolonial perspective including the mentioned ‘Bus Methodology’ and ‘The house modernity built’ cartography.

Past training recordings

All of our previous subject CPDs recordings are here. We can certify them for anyone who would like to do them by watching them back. They’re available here.

Previous training mentioned: 

• Degrowth series
• Food Security and Biodiversity (Seed Sovereignty)
• Tax and Trade
• Recycling and Waste

Upcoming trainings

Here you can register for the Fairtrade Webinar.

Magazine

• New Internationalist

Videos

• Free documentary screening platform

Podcasts on GCE related issues

• Upstream 

Taking Meaningful Action

Black and Irish – Template to email your local TD calling for anti-racism training to become an essential part of teacher training

Taking Meaningful Action (National Youth Council of Ireland resources)

• Building Back Better: Youth, Power and Planet : This is a great resource too and has a really nice activity to look at the different roles students can take when planning an action.
• The Global YOUth – Journey to Act!: looks at taking collective action

Resources related to Fairtrade and Trade Justice

• Trade Justice into your Fairtrade Fortnight (Trading Game) 
• ​​Race to the Bottom Activity (Financial Justice Ireland) How the World Works

Please take a few minutes to fill out our survey on how you found the training (SAT).