Local4Global

HEC Global Learning Centre
Tower Hamlets Professional Development Centre
English Street, London E3 4TA,
Tel: 020 7364 6405
Fax: 020 7364 6422
Email: hec@gn.apc.org

Websites

Global Footprints
Ideas and activities aimed at empowering all participants, but particularly the young, to take steps towards a more sustainable future.
http://www.globalfootprints.org

East End Talking
For primary pupils to create and present their work to share with other children and to learn about being active young citizens.
http://www.eastendtalking.org.uk/

London Global Teacher Network
An opportunity for London teachers to share experiences, opinions and resources around global learning - online and through meetings and events hosted at various London venues.
http://www.lgtn.org.uk/

HEC Global Learning Centre works in five main areas:

We have a resource centre with materials for primary and secondary schools and we work closely with Tower Hamlets Schools Library Service.

We produce learning resources including: Global Leaflets, Global Boxes, StoryTents

and publications such as Bangladeshi Children in our schools; Storyworlds; We live In the East End; the big book Play on the Line and the board game Locococo.

We offer a range of packages for pupils, and training for teachers including:
• Critical thinking and pupil led enquiry through Philosophy for Children (P4C)
• Children's rights, participation and school councils
• ICT (digital video, animation and web-page development)
• Sustainable schools and carbon reduction
• Literacy, values and skills through global stories
• Online perception mapping with children
• School Linking - locally, nationally and internationally

We also provide training and advice on a range of global development and sustainability issues for teachers and other educators.

Partners, (Local Authorities, Initial Teacher Education institutions, Development NGOs and other organisations), and National and Regional Sustainability and School Linking Networks, including
London Global Teachers Network.

Target Groups
Early Years, primary and secondary pupils, teachers and educators.

Current Projects
Putting Ourselves on the Map
-Creating a sense of community and place
(Online Perception Mapping)
Philosophy for Children (P4C)
Student Voice
Educating for a Global Future
Makutano Junction

Past projects
Click to view