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What might it look like in school? January 2019 Courageous Advocacy

What is Courageous Advocacy? • Do our pupils consider themselves agents of change?

Character Development: Hope, Aspiration and Courageous Advocacy • SIAMS Strand 3 • Do leaders make sure all pupils have curriculum opportunities to look beyond themselves, ask ‘big questions’ and think globally about life and develop an understanding of disadvantage, deprivation and the exploitation of the natural world? • How effectively has the school explored and engaged in diocesan and other global companion/world church links?

Character Development: Hope, Aspiration and Courageous Advocacy • SIAMS Strand 3 • How well does the school community connect its ethical and charitable activities to the school’s vision and associated values? • Do leaders provide opportunities for all pupils to engage in social action and to understand how they can challenge injustice?

Look beyond themselves • What If Learning • http: //www. whatiflearning. co. uk/

The Approach Seeing anew: How could a Christian understanding of God, people, and the world provide a different way of seeing a lesson or unit? Choosing engagement: How can students engage with this new way of seeing? Reshaping practice: What changes to my practice do I need to make as a teacher? What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

A Maths Example The school’s ethos may emphasize giving, but all the examples in maths may be about getting: shopping, spending, saving. What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

A Maths Example How about the shopping for a surprise party for the volunteers who help in your school? What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

A French Example The school’s ethos may emphasize being unselfish, but all the examples in French may focus on using language for fulfilling personal needs. Role play may be shopping in French and making our needs understood. What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

A French Example How about doing the shopping for an elderly neighbour? What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

Stage 1 Seeing Anew Decide on a lesson you would like to teach more Christianly. Think of how you might look at it from a different angle, more in line with Christian belief and ethos. For ideas, refer to Strategies for seeing anew What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

Stage 2 Choosing Engagement Now think of ways in which learners could engage with this new way of seeing. What opportunities for participation do they have? If you need some ideas, refer to Strategies for choosing engagement What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

Stage 3 Reshaping Practice What changes do you, as the teacher, need to make to your practice? Are there habits of the classroom that you need to change in the light of your new emphasis? For some ideas, refer to Strategies for reshaping practice What If Learning: Connecting Christian Faith and Teaching

Ask big questions and think globally • develop an understanding of disadvantage, deprivation and the exploitation of the natural world

What global citizenship education is / is not. • Sort the cards into two columns.

A global citizen is someone who…. . • Finish the sentence with your own definition then compare on your table.

Think globally • Christian Aid Global Neighbours Scheme • www. christianaid. org. uk/schools /global-neighbours-accreditation -scheme • This material is brilliant!

Ethical and Charitable activities link to the vision • Map of local area to show ethical shopping • Creating a display in a public place around an issue • Writing to people of influence

Ethical and Charitable activities link to the vision • Creating a very short video about an issue for social media • Prayer and prayer activities • Presentations to pupils and staff, governors, parents or others.

All pupils to engage in social action • What do you do in your school?

Understand how they can challenge injustice

Share a Pencil Day 22 nd May 2019 • Completely free to participate, Share a Pencil Day is part of the World’s Largest Lesson, introducing the Sustainable Development Goals to children and young people everywhere and uniting them in action. Share a Pencil Day highlights Goal #4: Ensuring inclusive & equitable quality education & promote lifelong learning opportunities for ALL. • New website this year www. ventforchange. co. uk/share-a-pencil-day/

Share the Miracle • Transforming communities through kindness • www. sharethemiracle. org

Diocesan Companion Links • Not going well at the moment.

Good practice in educating for courageous advocacy • Explores connections • Incorporates multiple perspectives, including those from the majority world and those directly experiencing poverty • Encourages pupils to ask questions, and develop critical thing skills

Good practice in educating for courageous advocacy • Is participatory and experiential • Challenges assumptions and stereotypes, encouraging pupils to question the way they think • Is balanced • Includes opportunities for pupils to respond

The challenges • A challenge of our times is how to teach about issues of global injustice, environmental degradation and climate change in a way which is real and honest, yet which nurtures hope. • It’s all too easy to adopt a token approach, giving children the impression that it will all be ok if they buy a fair trade chocolate bar from time to time, wear a red nose once a year and remember not to leave the TV on standby. • On the other hand it would be possible to terrify them so much at a vision of famine, disease, floods, droughts, hurricanes and wars as to paralyse them by fear, guilt and hopelessness into despair or denial.

A few helpful resources (that you may not know already) • • • A Rocha School resources here BBC Newsround link here Christian aid schools page here Every Child of God Matters Everywhere pdf book Global Dimension here Traid. Craft school resources here

Ask Big Questions here are some examples • Do you have to go to school to learn? • What is the most important message to tell people? • Is it good to try new things? • Should children look after animals? • What is the best way to thank God and other people?

Where next in your school?

Jane. Whittington@cofeguildford. org. uk