The Connecting Classrooms Online Community enables teachers around the world to network with one another, seek and share advice, and join or form clusters of schools that want to work together on international projects. You can use the community to discuss curriculum development and potential links with other teachers globally, and to access guidance from our support staff about Connecting Classrooms and how it could work best for your school.

The online community is freely accessible to teachers in schools that are not participating in funded Connecting Classrooms partnerships, as well as those that are*. During periods of recruitment, when we are looking for more schools to participate in funded partnerships, the online community can help you to find other schools in your area to work with you in a cluster, and is a useful source of advice about obtaining support for your application (e.g. in the UK, you need support from your local authority/federation of schools).

The Connecting Classrooms Online Community is located at http://cc.britishcouncil.org and is managed in the UK by the team from the DCSF Global Gateway, and in other countries by a team in British Council Thailand. Support staff in British Council offices around the world are also on hand to facilitate forum discussions and answer your questions.

If you already have a login for the DCSF Global Gateway, or for the DCSF International School Award, you will be able to sign in and start connecting right away. Alternatively, you can register on the site by filling in a simple online form.

ENTER THE CONNECTING CLASSROOMS ONLINE COMMUNITY

*Please note that the community is not open to teachers from other European countries (only the UK) and is not yet available in all countries globally. Details are on the site.

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