Global School Partnerships
DGSP
Our increasingly interdependent world demands greater interaction and understanding between people and greater respect for our differences. We must therefore build communities where people of culture are seen as equal, learn from each other and share a common sense of rights and responsibilities as global citizens. The DFID Global School Partnerships (DGSP) is a programme aimed at meeting these goals and challenges.
The DGSP programme aims to:
- Deliver successful, high quality, educational, equitable and sustainable partnerships between schools in Trinidad & Tobago and the UK
- Enhance the global dimension in the school curriculum by providing an effective programme of advice, support, grants, training and professional development to teachers and schools
- Provide opportunities for teachers to gain accreditation for their work on the global dimension in school partnerships
- Can help provide a context for real, topical content across a range of subjects
- Helps teachers and learners to relate to issues of development and global citizenship
- A global dimension in the curriculum helps to extend pupils’ view of the world and helps them to explore their perceptions and prejudices.
- Helps pupils to recognise connections and interdependencies and to think critically about different cultural, economic and political perspectives.
All DGSP school partnerships in Trinidad and Tobago will receive the following support:
- Partner finding support and resources
- Access to the Global Schools website containing a wealth of partnership resources
- Good Practice Network – online forum to share best practice in global school partnerships
- An Introduction to Global School Partnerships – workshop for teachers new to partnerships with global dimension goals
- Professional Development Seminars for teachers involved in established partnerships:
Building Effective Partnerships
A Global Dimension in the Curriculum
Involving Communities
Understanding Education & Development
- Reciprocal Visit grants of £2,000 for visits to each partner school to enable teachers to plan joint curricular projects with global dimension themes
- Global Curriculum Project grants of £6,200 per year for up to three years to enable teacher travel and curriculum development for established partnerships to do joint curricular projects with global dimension themes
- Travel grants of £3,400 for students of secondary school age in years 2 and 3 of the Global Curriculum Project grant
- Grant Preparation Seminars to provide direct guidance on how to apply for our grants programme
- In Trinidad and Tobago, there are 40 registered DGSP schools with partners in England, Scotland and Wales. There are another 15 that are in the early staes of partnership.
- 18 TT schools have received grants for reciprocal visits; three have applied for curriculum project grants.
- From the time of its establishment in 2005, the programme has received the support of the Ministry of Education. The Ministry has registered Trinidad and Tobago as a Strategic International Partner on the Global Gateway, the school partner-finding website.
- Elsewhere in the Caribbean, there are 54 schools from 10 Caribbean countries in partnership with schools in the UK. Many of these UK schools are in communities with large Caribbean populations.
Get advice and information from Trinidad and Tobago Programme Manager:
Kent Jardine
DFID Global schools Partnership Manager
British Council
Trinidad and Tobago
19 St Clair Avenue, St Clair, Port of Spain
Tel: +1868 350 0505 Mobile: +1 868 788 8781
Fax +1 868 350 0507
Email: kent.jardine@britishcouncil.org.tt
The DFID Global School Partnerships programme is delivered by a consortium of the British Council, Cambridge Education Foundation, UK One World Linking Association (UKOWLA) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
