1. Developing Global Mobility for the most Disadvantaged Students:
Practical Engagement with Wider School Communities
Dr Helen Wright

2. Overview Background to concept
Hurdles: what schools do well and what they don’t
What does school community look like
The importance of audit (and auditing the right thing)
Practical programmes
Next steps

3. Social mobility: the ability to have choices, regardless of background
Global mobility: international preparedness; the ability to feel comfortable and confident in any situation, anywhere

4. What hurdles get in the way of global mobility?
Attitudes and experiences …
… of parents and families
… prevalent in society
… of teachers
Psychological
Digital
Linguistic
Cultural
Social
Skills
Technological connections
Costs
Opportunities
Practical

5. What Schools do well (or not)
5. International community
4. National community
3. Local community
2. School community
1.The individual young person
√ Curriculum and international intention X Pathways to the international X Role models X Use of their communities

6. Audit (Version 1) How well does our school do in each of these areas?
Audit (Version 1)
How well does our school do in each of these areas?
What do we do? What could we do?
Awareness: developing awareness of social and global mobility
Action: practical skills development and/or action to develop social and global mobility
What do we do?
What could we do?
Sphere 1: the individual young person
Sphere 2: the school community
Sphere 3: the local community
Sphere 4: the national community
Sphere 5: the international community

7. Audit (Version 2) LEVEL 1 (International Awareness) LEVEL 2
(International Relationships)
LEVEL 3
(International Partnerships) K
1-5
examples 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Alumni
Audit (Version 2)

8. What are schools doing?
Developing a Skype partnership with an international school or schools and co-developing a shared curriculum
Enlisting the help of parents and alumni – who do they know (and where in the world) who can help you create work experience
Making the drive for global mobility visible to all
Developing an extensive and sustained work experience programme with businesses who sell over the internet
Workplace visits for KG children – learning to appreciate the wider community from an early age.
Emphasising digital literacy skills as a means to connect globally
Reaching out to local, national and international universities and exploring joint projects.

9. Next Steps Continue spreading an understanding of the concept
Refine the audit tool and process
Evaluate the effectiveness of individual programmes and overall impact of emphasis on global mobility (school-led)
Detailed case studies (stories)

10. Discussion
To what extent does this concept resonate in your context, or contexts you have engaged with?
Story-telling – what have you seen?
Imagination and Ideas – why don’t we …?

11. Keep in touch. Dr Helen Wright EMAIL helen@drhelenwright
Keep in touch! Dr Helen Wright @drhelenwright WEB