Taking a Global Citizenship Approach to Primary Literacy

This interactive session with draw the links between a Global Citizenship Education ( GCE) approach and literacy across the primary curriculum. Reflecting on the key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, the session will outline practical methodologies to support adopting a Global Citizenship approach. Exploring Global Citizenship themes and considering ways of decolonising the literacy curriculum and including multiple voices and perspectives. The session will be provide an opportunity to share good practise, start to explore key methodologies and resources to support a GCE approach to literacy.

In this session, teachers will:

· Reflect on the skills, values and attitudes that can be developed through using Global Citizenship contexts across the literacy curriculum.

· Consider approaches and methods for introducing global contexts to functional writing genres, including letter-writing, persuasive writing and report writing

· Explore ways of decolonising literacy across the curriculum to share multiple voices and perspectives through stories and story-writing.

· Draw the links between a rights-based approach and discover how to adopt this approach when exploring literature across all Primary Levels.

Our courses are highly interactive, both to model the participatory global citizenship approach, and also so we can introduce activities and methodologies for use in the classroom. This course will make use of breakout rooms and simple digital participation tools (all necessary instructions will be given). It can be hard to participate fully on a phone or tablet, so we highly recommend you join the course on a desktop or laptop computer, with your microphone and video enabled.

If you have particular access needs, please contact us at helen@scotdec.org.uk so we can work together to create as positive an experience for you as we can.

We have designed this course to be engaging, relevant and thought-provoking. Please join the course in a reasonably quiet place if possible, and do what you can to bring your full participation and focus to the session.

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