Global Learning can be the golden thread through your curriculum; expressed in terms of Intent, Implementation and Impact:
Intent - Global Learning can provide a framework underpinning curriculum intent. A curriculum with a global learning focus is ambitious - as well as being creative, caring and collaborative. Pupils’ Global Learning experiences support their development as global citizens, helping to develop values, emotional resilience, a range of thinking skills and a sense of agency preparing them for their future.
Implementation - CDEC supports teachers with knowledge, skills, approaches and resources to weave Global Learning into a school’s curriculum. This is delivered through CPD, general support, resource boxes and other resources and projects.
Impact - Global Learning excites pupils and develops engagement and a passion and purpose for learning. It develops a range of skills including their critical literacy, geography and social skills, allowing them to apply and build on their knowledge for their future as active global citizens with compassion and agency for people, place and planet.
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CDEC survives because of our member schools in Cumbria. If it wasn‘t for you, we wouldn’t be able to run projects, manage our resource library or share Global Learning throughout Cumbria for the benefit of our future global citizens. So, thank you!
Membership of CDEC offers primary and secondary schools a range of unique resources and training opportunities related to our place on the planet and our role within our local community.
They can be used across the whole curriculum; strengthening young people's voices, giving minoritised groups confidence, helping school children develop empathy and giving them agency to be future global citizens by showing them the benefits of taking responsibility for themselves, each other and the space we all share.
Empathy, understanding and critical thinking are invaluable tools for young people as they face a challenging and ever-changing world.
Membership fees for 2024-25
(only one membership per school is needed for each member of staff to have access to the benefits listed below. Membership runs from 1 September to 31 August)
| All preschools and nursery schools and Primary schools with fewer than 50 pupils | £45.00 | |
| Primary schools with more than 50 pupils | £80.00 | |
| Secondary schools | £100.00 |
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The benefits of CDEC membership for 2024-25
- Our monthly e-newsletter direct to your inbox. Our e-newsletters catch you up on the latest from our project work, upcoming events and training courses as well as funding and other opportunities for your school.
- FREE places on our open training courses. We’ll be running these courses during the school year and member schools are our priority when it comes to devising and delivering bespoke training - this could include whole-school sessions or courses for topics not covered on the training page linked above.
- JOIN our Global Learning Network. Meet Global Learning teachers from other CDEC member schools and receive support and advice from CDEC's team - the network meets online each half term.
- BORROW our Resource Boxes. Available exclusively to member schools, our boxes are an ideal complement to your teaching and stimulate pupil learning and imagination. The boxes include teaching packs, books, artefacts and a variety of activities to support Global Learning across your curriculum and to bring your classroom to life. There is something for every primary key stage and for secondary citizenship - download this table of all our boxes to see the different themes and key stages as well as the relevant Sustainable Development Goals that they link to. Visit this page to find out more and book your boxes.
- SIGN UP for an introductory session where we will explore the benefits of embedding Global Learning in your school and how to audit your school to get the most from your Global Learning journey.
- WIN FREE BOOKS! We're giving away a bundle of CDEC books to ten schools who check the box on the membership form.
- The satisfaction that you are supporting Global Learning in Cumbria for years to come!
Get in touch with us to find out more about any of these benefits or if you have any questions about CDEC membership - send an email to dan@cdec.org.uk