This workshop outlines the WWGS approach, including the 5 Guiding Principles that underlie all our Global Citizenship Education.
Wood Technology Guide References and Sources 2025
Access the full list of references and sources used in our WWGS Doing Global Citizenship Education in JC Wood Technology.
Wood Technology Guide Supplementary Material 2025
Find more background reading, additional case studies and further materials relating to our WWGS Doing GCE in JC Wood Technology.
Challenging Racial Bias in the Classroom, Workshop, Mar 6th 2025
This workshop aims to equip educators with practical strategies and tools to address and respond to microaggressions and racial prejudice in the classroom.
Global Passport Information Session, Online, March 5th 2025
An overview of Global Passport Award and application, with any questions answered.
Ethics and Sustainability in Business: Oide Business and WWGS Collaboration Training 2025
Ethics and Sustainability in Business Worldwise Global Schools (WWGS) can support teaching and learning in the Senior Cycle Business classroom. WWGS are working with Oide to assist teachers with the cross-cutting theme of ethics and sustainability. Workshop Resources Video recording Please, find a recording of WorldWise Global Schools input here. Presentation Please, find the slides in pdf and pptx here. …
WWGS Teacher Conference, De La Salle Centre, Co Laois, Jan 30th 2025
The 2025 conference will focus on the WWGS’s Guiding Principles of ‘Unlearning and Reconstructing’. Save the date!
Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease
Lesson Plan: Learning from a Double Disease Strand Five: The Biological World Main Learning Outcome 6: Evaluate how human health is affected by: inherited factors and environmental factors including nutrition; lifestyle choices; examine the role of micro-organisms in human health. Overview In this lesson, available in both Irish and English, learners investigate the science behind the world’s oldest recorded disease: leprosy. …
Lesson Plan: Pros and Cons of Hydroelectric Power
Learners explore how hydroelectric power works and consider its benefits and problems by comparing a locally-led project in Kenya with a multinational project in Laos.
Lesson Plan: Planting Health
In this lesson, learners will explore the importance of plants in medicine, the impact of biodiversity loss globally, and the expertise of Indigenous people in preserving ecosystems.
A Global approach to Sustainability, Workshop, Sep 17th or Sep 19th 2024
This workshop will help teachers to bring a broader global perspective to their teaching and learning. Advice will also be given on the ESD funding available to schools to apply for.
Fáilte go WWGS 2024/25, Meán Fomhair 12 2024
Tabharfaidh an cheardlann seo breac-chuntas ar chur chuige WWGS, le béim faoi leith ar na 5 Threoirphrionsabal atá forbartha againn mar bhunús den Oideachas Saoránachta Dhomhanda (OSD) uile. Moltar go mór d’aon mhúinteoir a bhfuil baint acu le OSD freastal ar an traenáil seo mar réamhrá nó mar athnuachan.
Doing GCE in Wood Technology, Guide Launch, Mar 12th 2025
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Tackling Current Issues, Workshop, Dec 4th 2024
This workshop will give the right tools and right ways to educators to approach the crises that society is facing, from climate change to conflict, in a safe and balanced way in the classroom.
We Need to Talk About Fundraising, Workshop, Dec 10th 2024
This workshop is about how we can put fundraising in context and scaffold fundraising activities with teaching and learning, while also offering other ways in which learners can take meaningful action to play their part in changing the world.
Student Conference, De La Salle Centre, Co Laois, Nov 14th 2024
This year, after many years online, we are piloting an in person student conference! We look forward to bringing some Global Citizenship Education (GCE) students together from all over Ireland to learn, share and engage with GCE.
Introduction to WWGS 2024, Workshop, Sep 10th 2024
This workshop will outline the WWGS approach, including the 5 Guiding Principles that underlie all our Global Citizenship Education (GCE). Highly recommended, both as an introduction and a refresher, for any teachers involved with GCE.
Doing GCE in Junior Cycle CSPE, In-person Launch, May 2nd 2024
CSPE Guide Launch WWGS will launch our CSPE guide in the Mary Robinson Centre, Ballina on the 2nd of May from 11.00-2.00. This is a great opportunity to share good practice vis a vis Global Citizenship Education in the CSPE classroom as well as we explore some of the teaching and learning activities in the new guide. Lunch will be …
Doing GCE in JC Music Guide Launch, In-person Event, Oct 19th 2023
Music Guide Launch WWGS’s new Doing Global Citizenship Education in JC Music was launched on the 19th of October 11.30 am-1.30 pm in the Irish Institute of Music and Song in Balbriggan. The launch was open to music teachers and students. It took them through some of the activities in the guide and gave an opportunity for teachers and students to …