The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal plan of action adopted by all UN member states in 2015 to end poverty, protect the environment, and build a peaceful, prosperous world by 2030.
These guides are the foundations of great global citizenship. They outline the key principles of taking a global approach to teaching and learning, as well as practical guidance for embedding it into your lessons.
A suite of free curriculum linked resources; designed to help your pupils explore environmental issues in an engaging and motivating way.
Free teaching and learning resources to help enrich national curriculum subjects, like PSHE and citizenship, and connect human crisis with human kindness.
This toolkit is designed to assist organisations that provide language support for refugees, and especially the volunteers working for them.
Toolkits, articles and information promoting sustainable practices and awareness from IATEFL.
ELTsustainable helps language teachers bring the international dialogue on overcoming the environmental crises we face into the language classroom in a way that motivates students and helps them achieve their language learning goals.
This website is a companion to the Facebook group ELT Footprint. The ELT Footprint Facebook group was launched on May 24 2019 to coincide with a Global Climate Emergency Strike called by Fridays for Future and supported by a number of different groups all around the world.
Renewable English was created to help educators and learners in their quest to be more sustainable. In the first series of lessons we look closely at traditional unit themes and look more deeply into our behaviour and see how we can easily make positive changes towards a cleaner, healthier planet.
A small group of volunteers who help UK English language teaching centres take action to address the climate and ecological crises from the classroom to the board room. Green Action ELT works to raise awareness; inspire and facilitate change; and connect people to create a green movement in UK ELT and beyond.
A wide range of practical resources to use in your classroom, whether you are teaching English to primary, secondary or adult learners. Many of these lessons focus on global issues.
Action Guinea Bissau is an official partner of gisig. Having visited Guinea Bissau a few times and worked with groups of teachers around the country, we are now in a position to understand what people need most. We are working with trusted people in Bissau to help local communities.
No matter your job, if you work in a language school and you have problem – big or small – the IWW is here to help. We offer legal advice and training but, most importantly, we are here to help language workers support one another. Together we can change the UK’s language schools: decent contracts, better pay, an independent voice on the job.
We intend for the blogs on this site to demonstrate what is possible, to stimulate dialogue and to inspire further social justice praxis in EAP circles.
