As a teacher
This section outlines the variety of opportunities for teachers to get involved in Eye to Eye. You can try out our pilot materials, help come up with teaching ideas or bring together several teachers in your school to look at using the materials across the curriculum. For schools that join the project we have assemblies and an exhibition of the best Eye to Eye photos to offer at no cost to the school.
We want our final teaching materials to be developed to the highest quality so we are working this year with teachers in order to get them right.
Eye to Eye is creating, with teachers, resources that are relevant to the curriculum, relevant to teachers and relevant to students’ own concerns. The main role for teachers at this stage is to pilot our teaching materials.
- Would you enjoy using photographs and personal case studies in your lessons?
- Would you like to help deepen students’ understanding of global issues in a fun, engaging and learner-centred way?
- Would you like your feedback on the developing materials to help improve the final published materials?
Our piloting materials are not currently on this public site, but all you need to do is to email us about your interest, including details of your name, school and subjects taught. We will send you the piloting pack relevant to your subjects, complete with full briefing and away you go!
By joining Eye to Eye you will be joining a dynamic community of teachers committed to good teaching, aware of the importance of the global in our curricula, developing their own professional skills and working towards a just and sustainable world.
We hold workshops (in which all expenses including cover are paid), offer resources to help support your subject teaching and a private and dedicated webspace for Eye to Eye teachers to communicate and have access to the Eye to Eye photos.
Five reasons to get involved in eye to eye
As an ‘Eye to Eye teacher’, you will:
- Develop your skills in creating resources and curriculum development by joining a select group of teachers who will pilot and develop original teaching materials over this academic year.
- Learn how to apply original and innovative materials around global and personal themes, to the new 2008 Curriculum
- Meet, in workshops and online, a wider community of teachers concerned about bringing global issues into their teaching and the curriculum.
- Help raise awareness amongst learners about the situations in which many young people around the world have to live.
- Be supported all the way through the process by eye to eye staff and a dedicated eye to eye teachers’ website.
Why are we producing these materials?
Do you want your lessons to be as interesting and engaging as possible? So do we. A recent survey has highlighted that many teachers want to use resources that are colourful, full of pictures and promote active learning. The only problem is they don’t always have these available. That’s where we come in. Our lessons are full of pictures, PowerPoints, jigsaws and mysteries, with plenty of room for debate and expressing personal views. It also suggests that most students want to learn more about the world around them.
The survey also says that teachers want to promote a balanced and un-stereotyped view of the countries and cultures they teach about. That’s where we also come in. These Eye to Eye child workers tell us the ‘real’ story, straight from their own lives. No stereotypes, just students in the UK learning about people their own age in other parts of the world.
The 2008 Curriculum and the global dimension
2008 sees the implementation of the new National Curriculum, which further emphasises many aspects of the current curriculum that Eye to Eye also wants to address, from critical thinking to a global dimension to teaching.
For some useful links to help you think about the global dimension in your teaching go to the Global Dimension website
This project is funded by the European Union