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Aid issues under the spotlight
The Red Cross is running a four-day CPD course as part of its programme to help children and young people to make sense of the world around them and change it for the better.
Running over four Saturdays in the school year, it gives teachers the opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of a range of humanitarian issues and how to explore these in the classroom.
Silvia Sabino Hunt, Humanitarian Educator at the British Red Cross, said: "By exploring crisis situations the course enables participants to recognise that people can overcome adversity. It also develops their understanding of humanitarian issues, the skills that build resilience and encourages their propensity to act.
"Ultimately, the Red Cross believes in helping young people become more confident, willing and able to help. This course gives teachers tools, ideas, resources and topic knowledge to support the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence and at the same time meet their subject's own learning experiences and outcomes."
The topics covered include conflict and child soldiers, disasters and emergencies, building a refugee camp, and diversity, with a particular focus on refugee and asylum seeker issues.