The main thing to make sure you’re doing is building enthusiasm within your classroom and around the school. Make sure everyone knows you’re going so they can be excited for you and ask you lots of questions when you return. Perhaps ask them what they want to know about and then you can tell them when you return.
GLP Alumni: “I included greeting of the day – for a week, saying hello in 5 different languages (including Kinyarwanda). I also got children to mark on a map where they or their parents were from. Encouraging pupils to come to school for one day in their national dress, or the colours of the Rwandan flag. One of my classes researched endangered animals and raised money to sponsor a mountain gorilla, and another group wrote newspaper style articles about preventing infectious diseases in other countries. My first year class made a booklet about life in Scotland for me to take with me.”
GLP Alumni: “Make your pupils aware and build up interest and enthusiasm with them through assemblies and lesson as much as you can. I had my pupils involved in the process right from the beginning even in the interview process. This made the integration of Global Citizenship easier on my return and they were not as confused when they turned up to Design and Technology and we started working on African Prints.