START A GROUP IN YOUR SCHOOLTeacher training
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AMNESTY Amnesty provides teacher training that inspires and equips teachers with knowledge, practical ideas and classroom resources that help them to:
- Teach about human rights - improving the knowledge and understanding of both themselves and students
- Teach through human rights - developing in young people attitudes and behaviour respectful of human rights
- Teach for human rights - developing in young people the skills to uphold and protect human rights
Our training is for teachers working with young people aged 5 - 18. Find out more below or by contacting our Teacher Training Project Officer on email or +44 (0)20 7033 1596.
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More: Why Amnesty? | CPD training | ITE work | Training for youth group leaders |
Example sessions:
Why Amnesty?
We are a leading provider of human rights education resources and training and support schools across the UK. We offer a wide range of resources including support for Amnesty youth groups, teaching materials, Continuing Professional Development training and work with Initial Teacher Education providers. We can provide training days, half days or short, targeted sessions, either on our own, or with a selection of partner organisations.
Amnesty trainers are all former teachers whose sessions emphasise practical teaching and learning ideas and methods that improve the classroom practice of teachers who attend.
We have an outstanding track record in teacher training. On average :
- 98% of delegates consider their training experience with Amnesty 'very useful' or 'useful'
- 97% of delegates state that they are 'extremely likely' or 'likely' to use modelled activities and resources in their teaching
- 96% of delegates feel that training is appropriate to their needs
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'Stunningly good - the best CPD I have ever had." |
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'By far the most useful CPD course I have attended - excellent use of resources, fantastic range of activities, all directly linked to work teachers do every day. If only more CPD could be so relevant." |
Training for youth group leaders
We provide training for teachers interested in setting up an Amnesty youth group, or for those new to running groups. The training workshops are practical, hands on and fun, with an opportunity to question and learn from one of our experienced youth group leaders and from each other, and with a chance to take away lots of free resources for your group. Come to a session to find out more:- about Amnesty, the role of Amnesty Youth Groups and the support we offer
- how to set up, motivate and run a youth group effectively
- how to overcome potential challenges and the tools, techniques and ideas to make your group a success
Running a youth group can be a valuable experience for teachers that expands their current skill set and prepares them for taking on cross curricular responsibility in their schools.
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'Leading the Amnesty Youth Group is the highlight of my week. My 'real' job is teaching French to 6th formers, which can be rewarding but is an exhausting, exam-driven and mostly thankless task. The Amnesty students, however, are enthusiastic, motivated, eager to be involved, and full of fantastic creative ideas. I have been thrilled to see shy students (some with learning difficulties) come out of their shells and grow enormously in confidence thanks to their involvement in Amnesty actions. Others have said that they have learned to listen to other people's opinions through our discussions, and now see the world from a different perspective. It's a wonderful experience both for me and for the students, which I wholeheartedly recommend!' |
CPD training
Amnesty International provides tailored training for teachers. Sessions can be adapted for teachers working with students from Key Stage 2-5, and can focus on any or all of the following areas:
UNDERSTANDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR TEACHERS OF CITIZENSHIP (England), PSHE (Wales) AND LEARNING FOR LIFE AND WORK (Northern Ireland)
Giving you tools, techniques and resources to teach pupils about human rights linked to the curriculum. These sessions can increase teacher confidence and knowledge on the subject, and empower you to teach fun and engaging lessons on the topic.
TEACHING HUMAN RIGHTS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
Giving teachers across the curriculum the knowledge, skills and resources to be able to teach human rights through their subjects. Amnesty trainers can run sessions for specific subjects, or can run cross curricular training days that will empower all subject teachers to be able to inspire and educate their students about human rights.
TRAINING LINKED TO SPECIFIC RESOURCES
Training sessions based on particular resources published by Amnesty. These sessions offer teachers the opportunity to explore our fantastic free resources by engaging with exemplar activities and developing ideas for how the resources can be used in their context. These sessions often tackle particular issues e.g. the death penalty, poverty and human rights.
This year the annual schools pack will be released in the summer term to give teachers the chance to use it in their planning for the following year. We will be running two events training teachers to use the pack in their schools.
USING A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK IN YOUR CLASSROOM
Giving teachers the tools, resources and knowledge to be able to create a classroom where human rights are respected, protected and promoted.
TRAINING FOR DELIVERING TAKING ACTION PROJECTS
Empowering teachers across the curriculum to run taking action projects with students. Human rights education is most powerful when it is action orientated and where students make the connection between what they learn, and the actions they take in the world. In these sessions we equip teachers of all subjects to create activities and use resources that will empower their students to take action and make a difference.
Example session (pdf)
ITE work
We work with UNICEF UK to support the development of Rights Respecting Initial Teacher Education programmes at London Metropolitan University (Secondary PGCE) and Winchester University (Primary BA in Education and Primary PGCE). Example session (pdf)
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'There is a benefit to sending out trained teachers who have a strong idea and a strong identity about what their position is in the classroom and in the school. If you give people a strong identity which includes their responsibility to promote a rights respecting classroom it's an advantage for them because it's an added layer of what you are as a teacher.' |
Below is a list of academic papers that have been written on the implementation of this project - to find out more about the project please contact us.
Reporting and Dissemination of London Metropolitan's Rights Respecting PGCE
Please contact Lee Jerome (l.jerome@londonmet.ac.uk) for copies of papers where on-line versions are not available.
Symposium: Rights as powerful knowledge? Introducing a rights perspective in initial teacher education to empower teachers to be change agents (PDF)
BERA Annual Conference, University of Warwick, 1-4 September 2010
Symposium: Children's Rights, Teachers' Responsibilities...and the Teacher Educators' Mission?
Lifelong Learning and Active Citizenship, The Twelfth Annual CiCe Network Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 20-22 May 2010
Making a difference: Inclusion, classroom talk and voice on a rights-respecting PGCE course
McCallum, A. and Brook, V. (2010)
Paper presented at the UK Teacher Education Network for Education Sustainable Development/Global Citizenship Conference, Education of Hope: the impact of ESD/GC on the well being of teachers and young people, London South Bank University, July 2010
Children's rights as a path to social cohesion? Exploring the experiences of promoting a rights-based perspective in initial teacher education
McCallum, A. and Jerome, L. (2009)
Paper presented at The Centre for Lebanese Studies Annual Conference, Education for Social Cohesion in Lebanon, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 15-17 October 2009
A Rights Respecting PGCE - The Case of Science
Jerome, L. and Brook, V. (2009)
Paper presented at Human Rights and Citizenship Education, Conference organised by the International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship, Birkbeck, London, 10 July 2009
A Rights Respecting PGCE - The Case of Citizenship
Jerome, L. and Bhargava, M. (2009)
Paper presented at Human Rights and Citizenship Education, Conference organised by Children's Identity and Citizenship in Europe (CiCe), Malmo University, Sweden, 21-23 June 2009
