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Once the partnership forms between the clusters of schools, Connecting Classrooms provide grants to the partnerships. These grants support collaborative curriculum projects, exchange visits, professional development and intercultural exchanges between the schools participating in a Social Action Project.
Social Action Projects bring together schoolchildren from Pakistan and the UK and promote a deeper understanding of the cultural and social issues that affect people around the globe.
- Intercultural dialogue
- Active Citizenship
- Skills for employability
- Communication
- ICT
- Critical thinking skills
- Team working
- Be relevant and appropriate to both sides
- Support and be integrated into the curriculum
- Have the general aim of increasing understanding between young people and promote greater awareness of each other's countries and the wider world
- Contact Seminar
- Write Project Plan in collaboration with partners, ensuring you agree on project activity and the division of the budget
- Approval of the project plan by the British Council
- Joint Curriculum Project grants are paid to the lead cluster school, as specified on the application form
- Joint curriculum project work gets underway, cluster visits take place
- Professional Development opportunities for teachers on both sides of the cluster
- 30 clusters have been developed across Pakistan involving over 150 public, private and madrasas schools in Pakistan – this includes 4 clusters in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir.
- 90 schools in the UK are running joint curriculum based projects using innovative approaches
- Internationalising Curriculum Leadership conference and Policy Dialogue seminar took place in March 2010
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