International School Partnerships- Making the Difference

Glasgow City Council

International Education Office

Lesley Atkins

International Education Officer

latkins@intoffice.ea.glasgow.sch.uk

International School Partnerships embedded within teaching and learning

International education developed within the national priorities for improvement and strategic change in Scotland : Learners International and Education Scotland’s Transforming Learning Approach

Support and leadership from the Director of Education

I International Education Officer

School Coordinator

4 Leaders of International Learning

Glasgow’s International Education Strategy

Glasgow’s engagement with Connecting Classrooms through links with India, Pakistan, Malawi, Ghana, Namibia, Trinidad and Tobago helped to deliver Glasgow’s Inclusive Education Strategy for the Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Class

School links through eTwinning, Erasmus Plus, Connecting Classrooms are contributing to school improvement across the city through the embedding of international education within strategic change and innovation through the international dimension to learning

British Council International School Award used as a framework for school improvement

Glasgow City Council International Education Excellence Award

School Improvement

It is

The Curriculum itself

A whole school approach

An international context for learning at the heart of the curriculum

Connecting local and global issues in the minds of young people

A whole school vision embedded in the school improvement plan and part of the school’s strategy for change and innovation

What is International Education in Glasgow?

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Paet of the Scottish Government Strategy in moving schools

British Council Scotland

Education Scotland

Glasgow City Council

A Three Stage Strategic change approach - partnership

National Impact Evaluation

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/learnersinternational/ How are other schools taking part?

Transforming Learning

The approach

Empowering transformational change and leadership at all levels.

We found that good progress is being made through eTwinning. The school has a clear plan for developing the work they have begun and they aim to make a continued impact over the next session. Four members of staff have benefitted greatly from the leadership opportunities offered to them through participation in the project. The school management has encouraged and supported staff to take full ownership of the work and the resultant successes achieved with the learners.

The three horizons approach was used at the beginning of the project.. These transformative change approaches helped the staff to develop and broaden their thinking and change present mind-sets. The project presented a few challenges which were overcome well by the staff.

Scottish School Inspectors’ findings

The two main leads on the project have worked very well together to develop use of the portal and solve problems together. They delivered an information session to colleagues and during our evaluation meeting showed a strong interest in the work they have completed and in taking things forward next session.

Staff increased their skills using eTwinning through a visit from a primary head taking part in the pilot.

All stakeholders share the staff’s view that the eTwinning work beginning with the transformative change approaches, has been a key driver in taking forward distributed leadership across the centre.

There is a positive impact on learning in the playrooms and on the life and ethos of the nursery and community.

Inspectors’ findings – early years

Enhanced Professional Development

Increased skills in working in an inter disciplinary way across the curriculum

Wider international professional network to inform learning contexts within the Curriculum.

Stronger ties with professionals at home and overseas

Improved leadership skills and project management

International Engagement Benefits for Teachers

International engagement is now an ‘entitlement’ for all of Scotland’s young people

A motivating and relevant learning context for 21st century learning

Increased digital learning skills

Enhanced citizenship competencies and critical thinking on key global issues

Skills for living and working in a diverse society

Benefits for Learners

‘Our vision for Scotland is of a nation which is confident, outward-looking, culturally enriched and knowledge-based.’

Glasgow’s young people through the significant capacity of their international engagement have become confident, outward looking, culturally enriched.

Their international learning experiences have become high quality

International engagement in Glasgow is part of school improvement and there are school links with over a 110 countries worldwide.

Benefits for the Local Authority

Pupils at St Charles Primary School in Glasgow have developed an increased knowledge and understanding of Italy, its language, culture and people thanks to a successful eTwinning project.

Children in P5-P7 have been involved in a wide range of international education activities including blogging, singing, speaking and letter-writing in Italian.

Benefits of the project have included: better use of ICT; the development of eTwinning to effect positive curriculum developments; and better linking with parents on the theme of understanding Italian culture.

Overall, the ethos and morale of the school have been enhanced by this international dimension to learning.

Evidence- HMI Impact Evaluations Learners International

International Education is at the heart of teaching and learning in Glasgow

Our strategy connects with Local and National Education Policy

We work with partners to achieve change and innovation: Education Scotland, British Council Scotland , Lord Provost’s International Office

We support schools directly through a mentoring framework through our Leaders of international learning programme and British Council school Ambassadors

We use a transforming learning approach with school leaders to secure high quality international education outcomes

Summary

Connecting Classrooms Europe – A case study

Young people from Poland, Scotland and Spain

Invited to Sarajevo to deliver outcomes related to the anniversary of the outbreak of WW1

Glasgow City Council develop the schools online resource ‘Football Remembers’

6 educational workshops for 30 secondary pupils at Celtic Learning Centre

The Learning Journey

Session 1 – the history of football in 1914 and the impact of the outbreak of war

Media Education - discussion of the film ‘ Joyeux Noel’ French Language lessons

Women’s Poetry of World War 1

The Music of WW1

Creative Writing

Digital Learning

The Learning Context

I can explore and use the features of a variety of familiar and unfamiliar software to determine the most appropriate to solve problems or issues. TCH 3-03a

I am developing my knowledge and use of safe and acceptable conduct as I use different technologies to interact and share experiences, ideas and information with others. TCH 1-08a

C f E Outcomes and Experiences

Young People from Glasgow create a film using the learning from the workshops on the impact of football on the experience of conflict during WW1

They travel to Sarajevo, Bosnia to take part in other workshops with their peers from Bosnia, Spain and Poland

They learn first hand about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 1914

They understand for the first time the impact on schools and young people of the Balkan wars

They present their film in the main square of Sarajevo for the community in September 2014.

International Outcomes and Experiences

It connects

The transformative potential of International Education is huge

In a fragmented world it is that unity which offers the possibility of

hope, creativity, collaboration , mutual respect and understanding

Why International Education

The Glasgow model allows for the possibility that all the potential of an international education can be converted into sound and high quality international educational practice

The strategy