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Curriculum review announced on 20th January 2011
"All schools will have to teach English, maths, science and PE with experts to advise on what should be focused on. Mr Gove also wants to set out the "essential knowledge" children should have - including a "connected narrative" of British history." reports the BBC. In today's Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Mr Gove says he wants to see a system which tells teachers "what must be taught in certain key subjects". He says "I just think that there should be facts in the curriculum."
Citizenship education is integral to "Big Society"
Neil Rose warns the government against ditching Citizenship from the secondary school curriculum Article in the Guardian.
Launch of Democratic Life in the House of Commons
Democratic Life is the coalition of organisations - including ACT - and individuals - including teachers and pupils - seeking to strengthen and extend the entitlement of high quality Citizenship education for school pupils in England. Find out more and join us now!
Act now to support Citizenship Education
Write to your MP to ask them to support Citizenship education by signing the Early Day Motion tabled by David Blunkett MP. Here's how...
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Members' News
Customised, fully funded in-house Citizenship training - CPD
The LSIS Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme offers customised in-house training for staff in any type of organisation! This is available until until March 2011. ACT recommends this training for everyone delivering post-16 Citizenship.
Link your school with African and European countries
The Citizenship Foundation and Plan UK are launching a new programme – Make the Link Climate exChange - placing UK secondary schools in the centre of the climate change debate through learning, dialogue and action.
Citizenship teaching ideas
A teacher is blogging one good Citizenship idea a week! The teacher is Pete Pattisson, former National Subject Lead for Citizenship with ACT, who is now back "home" in the classroom. ACT is following the blog and thinks its excellent. See for yourself and use Pete's ideas in your classroom.
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Resources & CPD opportunities
Holocaust Memorial Day is Thursday 27th January
On this day,which marks the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the challenge to teachers and young people is to search out the Untold Stories of the Holocaust. Here are Citizenship resources to help you
Student protests - what to say to your pupils
If students want to march against tuition fee rises you can’t stop them, but you can advise them on how to act responsibly. See ACT's lesson ideas with advice to Citizenship teachers.
Citizenship CPD modules available - CPD
ACT has developed a series of 25 CPD training modules for use by heads of department, LAs and others responsible for staff training in Citizenship. This series comprises modules covering: Political Literacy, Global Citizenship, Curriculum Design and delivering Citizenship with PSHE and many more. The modules are designed as three-hour sessions and are free to download. They can be adapted to suit your environment.
Take action to tell MPs about Citizenship education
We believe that education about rights and responsibilities, the law and democracy should be fundamental elements in every young person’s education and in the coming months will be asking all political parties to commit to keeping citizenship education in the curriculum, no matter what kind of reform happens in the future. We want to show politicians that teachers really care about citizenship and that it can make a positive difference in young people’s lives and in schools. You can do two things to help us with this...
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