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ACT : Association for Citizenship Teaching
ACT is the professional subject association for those involved in citizenship education. This website offers resources and information to help you deliver excellent citizenship education.
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Secondary Resources - Members Only Area
This section of the site contains downloadable Secondary lesson plans complete with useful resources, articles from the ACT journal, extracts from various publications or other sources that teachers have shared with us.
ACT will continue to develop this section of the website and new material is posted each month.
These resources are only available to ACT members. If you already have an 'active' ACT membership (i.e. payment has been made) you can LOGIN to your on-line account and access the resources found through this page.
If you don't have an ACT membership and would like to signup to become a new ACT member - click here to join ACT.
Whole school Citizenship provision
Tools to help evaluate the provision of Citizenship education in secondary schools
Assessment
Assessment using the 8-level scale, relative merits of the three exam boards, QCDA on assessment and ACT experts. Also whole-school assessment.
Commuity Cohesion
Resources for classroom teaching and ideas for the whole school.
Identity and Diversity - Living together in the UK
Resources for teaching the new strand of the secondary curriculum "Identity and Diversity - Living together in the UK
Justice
Fairness and the fule of law, power and authority and accountability...
Democracy and Political Literacy
A selection of the best resources for teaching about democracy and political literacy. These range from hosting mock elections in schools to visiting Parliament.
Human Rights
The concept of human rights is central in Citizenship teaching. There are many resources from organisations ranging from Amnesty to the British Army. Here you'll find just some that ACT thinks are useful.
International Dimensions of Citizenship and Global Citizenship
This includes global citizenship and teaching about the EU
Cross Curricular Resources
Using the whole school approach it is useful to demonstrate that Citizenship affects all spheres of our school lives. You should already be working with other subject teachers. Here are some resources to try including links to Every Child Matters and inspection advice.
