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Global Teacher

Development Education, Education, Guidelines, Ireland, 2012

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This is a cross curricular teaching resource on global development for transition year students. Section 1 of the resource contains lessons based on 5 themes exploring global development issues in Irish Aid's partner countries. Section 2 of the resource contains short introductory activities on global development. The pack contains a photo pack, lesson plans, five classroom activities and a poster on the Millennium Development Goals to accompany the lessons.

A copy of the pack is available free of charge from the Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O'Connell St. Dublin 1, Tel. 01 8546920. Email us here

 Section 1: Case study lessons

  • Lesson 1 Food Security-History and English

  • Lesson 2 Food Security-Geography

  • Lesson 3 Gender and Development-Religion and Geography

  • Lesson 4 Climate Change and Development-Geography and Maths

  • Lesson 5 HIV and AIDS-Biology and Religion


Section 2: Development education in an instant

  • Activity 1 Crossword-Geography

  • Activity 2 Moving Debate-Geography and English

  • Activity 3 Quiz-Geography

  • Activity 4 Introducing the MDGs-Geography

  • Activity 5 MDG posters-Art

  • Map-Download

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Global Teacher: a cross curricular teaching resource on global development for transition year

This is a cross curricular teaching resource on global development for transition year students. Section 1 of the resource contains lessons based on 5 themes exploring global development issues in Irish Aid's partner countries. Section 2 of the resource contains short introductory activities on global development.  Download PDF (1,913KB)

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Global Teachers

This is a cross curricular teaching resource on global development for transition year students. Section 1 of the resource contains lessons based on 5 themes exploring global development issues in Irish Aid's partner countries. Section 2 of the resource contains short introductory activities on global development. Download PDF (1,714KB)