Meeting each other

Our first learning, teaching and training (LTT) event was in London, UK. The Polish, Greek and Hungarian teachers have arrived in London and the first meeting was at Glebe Primary School.

It was a rainy and cold morning, but we all were full of good energy and excited to meet all the English teachers and, of course, the students too.

First of all we met all the teachers and all the partner - schools had the chance to introduce their schools to the host. Moreover, we explained briefly some things about our countries  and what we do till now in order to reinforce the feeling of the global citizenship in our students.

What is responsible citizenship?

This project started exactly with this question… What is responsible citizenship? Not many know how to answer the question and there might be several answers to it, too. But let’s start with the introductions.

Who are we?
We are teachers from four different schools in Europe; Greece, Hungary, Poland and the United Kingdom. We came together as part of a common Erasmus+ project.

The reason? 
We all wanted to see what it takes to educate global citizens. Research and current advice from policy makers have been advocating for a global dimension within formal education. Simply, this means that teachers should be preparing pupils for the needs of the 21st century. Although this is an extremely important task, there hasn’t been great guidance for teachers on how to do this. We are all professionals who are concerned about our society and the world. We want to ensure that we educate pupils that care about each other, care about the environment, care about our world, understand the values of democracy and social justice. We wanted to ensure that we develop teaching and learning practices that cultivate the development of responsible citizens in schools.