Taking an Interdisciplinary Approach in Secondary Schools - Schools’ Global Footprint

This seminar will explore the challenges and opportunities offered by linking teaching across subject departments in secondary schools.

Sustainable development, international education and global citizenship are identified in the Curriculum for Excellence as interdisciplinary themes, allowing work across a number of subjects and providing teachers with approaches that enable young people to become confident, responsible, effective and successful. What challenges does this opportunity present and how can they successfully be overcome?

Findings from interdisciplinary work on Schools Global Footprint that has been carried out across Scotland as part of the Local Footprints project will be presented.  Schools can examine, measure and take action to reduce their impact on the environment locally and globally using resources that can be found www.ltscotland.org.uk/schoolsglobalfootprint.

Sinclair Dyer from Hamilton Grammar School, South Lanarkshire will demonstrate how the school has used footprinting to take an interdisciplinary approach, combining their Eco Schools, International Education and Health Promoting Schools work to develop the school’s ‘World View’.

The final part of the seminar will reflect, with participants, on how the key issues emerging from this work can be addressed.