An invitation to all Stage 5 teachers to attend an Information Session on the new 100-hour Stage 5, NSWBOS Board Endorsed Course: Active Global Citizenship.

This information session will outline an exciting new course to be offered as a part of the NSW Board of Studies School Certificate Credential from 2013. The session will provide details of the support available to teachers introducing this course in their school as well as the on-going professional learning support available throughout the course.

For more information, click here

"We live in one world. What we do affects others, and what others do affects us, as never before. To recognise that we are all members of a world community and that we all have responsibilities to each other is not romantic rhetoric, but modern economic and social reality."
_{Department for Education and Skills, UK (2004)}

• informed, responsible active global citizenship
• critical literacy skills
• a variety of perspectives – determine bias, prejudice, stereotyping
• caring and compassionate concern for others from local to global scale
• shared responsibility and willingness to cooperate with others
• the rights and dignity of all people
• concern for justice and equality, including gender equity and commitment to help eradicate poverty
• an appreciation of and concern for the environment and a sense of personal responsibility to act in environmentally responsible ways and a commitment to sustainable practices
• a positive attitude towards diversity and difference
• respect for the rights of all to participation and expression
• an ability to identify unfairness, and opportunities for action to redress it
• the importance of conflict resolution
• respect for diversity and the contributions of different cultures, values and belief systems
• the universal and inalienable nature of human rights
• links between people and communities – range and complexity of global issues, and the interconnectedness of world, national and local economic and political systems and relationships
• a future where the rights of all people, social justice and sustainability are more secure
• the importance of good governance
• the contested nature of many global issues, and the importance of seeking an informed and balanced understanding