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TEACHER TRAINING
BRINGING RIGHTS TO LIFE
WITH YOUNG PEOPLE


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

Become an Amnesty Teacher

TeacherAre you a teacher with a passion for human rights, equality and justice?

Do you want to gain expertise in the best ways to engage young people in learning about and taking action for human rights?

Are you looking for a way to grow professionlly, strengthening skills in teaching, training and project management?

The Amnesty Teacher programme is for you.

Human Rights Education can transform your classroom, engaging young people in key ethical, social and political issues and helping them discover their capacities to be agents of change.  It can also improve the learning environment fostering a reflective and respectful classroom culture.

As an Amnesty Teacher you will be an advocate for human rights education and activism in your school and beyond.

Through this ground-breaking training scheme you will:

  • Gain knowledge and skills to deliver effective human rights education in your subject area and provide pupils with exciting opportunities to engage with key global issues.

  • Develop and deliver your own human rights education project that will make a lasting difference to your school and pupils, with the support of a network of like-minded educators.

  • Be supported in preparing and delivering continuing professional development in which you share your learning with teachers in your school and other schools.

The Amnesty Teacher programme:

For: Teachers of KS3, KS4 and KS5

Current Programme closed for applications: November 2012 - July 2013 (3 Saturday sessions; 2 optional webinars)

For more information see the Course Description (pdf)

Details of future courses coming soon.

More: Why Amnesty? | ITE work | Training for youth group leaders

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

'Stunningly good - the best CPD I have ever had."

'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."

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). For more information contact us.

Example session (pdf)

'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.'
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