Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Many IDEAS members offer professional development opportunities for teachers, including:

• News and information updates
• Support for teacher networks
• Workshops and courses
• Places on planning and/or management committees
• Conferences

For a full list of such professional development opportunities, search the CPDFind site using the keyword 'global' or 'sustainable'.

Current workshops available from IDEAS members include:

• "A' Adam's Bairns?"
• An introduction to global school partnerships
• Bringing the global into the science curriculum
• Building effective (school partnerships)
• Developing critical thinking through education for global citizenship
• Developing skills for citizenship: looking at climate change
• Conflict and Exploring humanitarian law
• Early years
• Fair Trade - across the curriculum, citizenship and whole school activities
• Getting to Grips - 4 part CPD
• Millennium Development Goals

• Introduction to global citizenship
• Linkingthinking, thinking and learning for sustainability
• May Peace Prevail on Earth school programme
• Modern foreign languages and global citizenship
• Picture this: the visual arts as a tool for development education
• Sustainable development education across the curriculum
• The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Understanding slavery - past and present

including opportunities to become involved with projects, teacher networks, management committees etc.

Contact your local Development Education Centre (right) to find out more about workshops and training available through the IDEAS network.

A CPD leaflet can be downloaded below.