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DCSF Citizenship CPD Certificate course for the North West and Manchester

Completion of CPD certificate for 2009-10

The final session for this hub will be a twilight meeting to make the presentations. The date for this will be September 14th and the presentations will take place at St marys College, Wirral at 4.30pm. Peter Brett, portfolio marker, will be in attendance and be available to chat about the portfolio submissions.

The Portfolio must be handed in on September 27th. Course members should ensure that they have completed the following aspects

1. Complete the SKP and outline an action plan for Citizenship education from the SKP

2. A Scheme of Work covering a minimum of three lessons involving an NGO or other partner and eveidence of observation of teaching the work. Please include any teaching resources with the Scheme of Work

3. The evaluation of Citizenship education at their institution using the ACT SET

4. Evidence of a presentation to peers, senior leaders or others in their institution on the findings from the evaluation or an aspect of the evaluation-usually to be found in the final matrix at the back of the SET

5. Evidence of a the presentation to course members about an aspect of Citizenship education-usually derived from the school evluation, the lesson planning or SKP/action plan

5. A reflective piece of writing about the value and importance of Citizenship education.

Course members can find more advice at the portfolio of evidence CPD web page and below are various downloads to help with the reflective writing and advice about submitting the portfolio at M Level. Additional resources are on the ACT National CPD Certificate web page .

The hub HEI tutor who will mark portfolios will be Dr Peter Brett. Course members can contact Peter at p.brett88@yahoo.com

Local Hub LA contacts are

Julie King julieking@wirral.gov.uk

Maurice Smith maurice.smith@tameside.gov.uk

Your RSA contact details in the Northwest

Guy Short Whitehaven School, Cumbria 01946 595 400 guy.rsa@googlemail.com

Aimee Quinn St Aidan's CE Technology College, Lancashire 01253 810504 Aimee-Quinn@st-aidans.lancs.sch.uk

Vanessa Thompson vthompson@cedarmount.manchester.sch.uk

Working Class Library Museum - Salford

Citizenship and History teaching resources

Two lessons written for Citizenship / History lessons on the ideas of Thomas Paine and how they might be relevant today. Lessons ask if the UK is an equal society and what ideas scorned upon today as radical might become acceptable tomorrow. Published by the Working Class Library Museum in Salford.

Lesson plans

The Big Idea

in Manchester

Manchester and its surroundings are home to an incredible number of ideas that have changed our world. From vegetarianism, trade unions, communism, to splitting the atom - this map shows you where the big ideas are.

The Big Idea - Manchester

There's got to be a Citizenship lesson in this! Can your students add to the map?