Local 4 GlobalLocal 4 Global activities
What is on offer currently?
1. CPD To increase the knowledge and skills of people in local organisations – in order to engage with teachers and other educators within their locality.
To increase the knowledge and skills of teachers in their schools – with the aim of starting a whole-school approach.
There has been a shift from 'training for the global dimension' towards emphasis on learning together.
2. Discussion days To share information and provide professional development on a variety of topics and issues.
For the wider group – practitioners (people in local organisations plus anyone with a connection with Local 4 Global) – teachers and the wider formal education sector.
3. Events for wider group e.g. conference
To promote and dissemination ideas and concepts of the global dimension, through providing access to key ideas and concepts within the wider formal education through speakers and workshops.
For the wider group (with the ‘hope’ to engage new people within the global dimension)
Extending the dialogue with wider practitioners (teachers and the formal education sector)
4. Programme Planning Conference (residential)
To share information and practice with people in local organisations and within Local 4 Global whilst engaging with specialist knowledge from the formal education sector e.g. Every Child Matters, whole-school approaches etc.
5. People in local organisations To support (including financial support) personal development in their work practice. (Note: these people are managed by their centres but are also accountable to Local 4 Global.)
6. Foot-loose, yet localist, projects (primarily in
To engage a wider range of stakeholder organisations. eg ITT engagement
To build practice and knowledge together about embedding the global dimension into ITT programmes.
eg London Grid for Learning
To support the building of global dimension content and activities into the LGfL.
For local teachers to engage with curriculum development and for teachers to access information from further afield. eg Schools Library Service
To support the building of global dimension content and activities into SLSs across
For local teachers to engage with resources identification and development and for teachers to access resources through purchased service provision.
eg an open project submission scheme
To engage hard-to-reach groups and their activities.
Towards a learning community?
The majority of the events or activities of Local 4 Global are about information sharing and building of knowledge and skills with programme workers and the wider group. This is the first step towards building a learning community, the next step of engagement is about building knowledge and practice together with practitioners. Local 4 Global is a more focused network (and not a fully-fledged consortium as stated) as it is a loose grouping of organisations that share information and do not emphasise the creation of new knowledge. This is primarily due to the capacity within the local organisations, the size of the region and the time-scale of implementation.
Improving leadership practice?
What other work is going on in the region that contributes to this work?
How does it link up? What else needs to be done to enable the further development of a learning community?
Move from sharing information to creating best practice and furthering practice together. How are we going to achieve this? One important scenario is the renewed interest in CPD-led curriculum development. This can be illustrated by DCSF funding to subject associations www.subjectassociations.org.uk/ and the work of other national agencies such as the General Teaching Council for
Monitoring and evaluation
Consortium coordination
Advisory group
To support the coordinators and the management group individuals outside this immediate circle will be asked to contribute on an occasional basis by email (or, indeed face-to-face, as participants in some other aspect of the work). It is not proposed to formalise this function with regular meetings.