Teacher Resources

Teacher Handbook

Educating for a Wise World: A ÃÛÌÒ¸£ÀûÎçÒ¹¾«Æ·Ò»Çø Guide to Global Citizenship Education in Post-Primary Settings (2025)


This guide is for post-primary educators who are working to embed GCE into their classrooms and education settings. Whether you are new to GCE, or have years of experience, this handbook will help to build deep, quality learning across your educational setting. 

Sections include: understanding GCE; how to approach GCE; GCE links with post-primary curricula; the WWGS Global Passport; raising awareness of global justice issues, and focusing on student actions.


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Activities Resource

Teaching and Learning Activities for a Wise World:
A ÃÛÌÒ¸£ÀûÎçÒ¹¾«Æ·Ò»Çø Resource for Global Citizenship Education in Post-Primary Classrooms (2025)


This resource supports post-primary educators to explore Global Citizenship Education. It includes a section on understanding GCE and creating safe and inclusive classrooms. There are introductory and closing activities, as well as step-by-step instructions for active and participatory teaching and learning activities.

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The Digging Deeper Tool


The Digging Deeper Tool is a series of questions designed to critically explore a global justice issue in depth. It is used after an issue has already been researched and learners have built up prior knowledge on the issue. It helps to break down complex issues, to take a critical stance, to consider multiple perspectives and to focus on potential actions, a key aspect of GCE.

The tool is adapted from a resource designed to help educators explore global issues produced by Pashby and Sund (2019), in conjunction with the Manchester Metropolitan University.


Exploring Global Justice Issues


These activities and games can be used to explore standalone justice issues within GCE. Some of these activities also link directly to our WWGS Guiding Principles for GCE. Click on the links below for instructions on each of these active and participatory activities.

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Bridges & Borders


A game to explore global and local connections.

Hot Air Balloon


A game for unlearning and reconstructing


Biscuit Game


A game to illustrate the unequal distribution of resources.

Nation Creation


A creative activity aimed at building an 'ideal' nation from scratch