FAQs on Connecting Classrooms

Connecting Classrooms is designed to work with school systems in improving learning outcomes for students. Connecting Classrooms is designed to help young people to develop the knowledge, skills and values to live and work in a globalised economy and contribute responsibly both locally and globally through building the capacity of teachers and school leaders. Phase three of Connecting Classrooms, running from 2015-2018, will build the capacity of teachers and school leaders worldwide to support them to integrate a new range of core skills into the curriculum, with a focus on:

• digital literacy
• critical thinking and problem solving
• creativity and imagination
• student leadership
• collaboration and communication
• citizenship

Register on the Schools Online website 

No. The registration process is FREE. You only require a stable internet connection. 

You require an email address and stable internet connection to register. To register as an individual teacher, you do not require any document. To register your school (which makes your school eligible for school partnerships), you will need an introductory letter from your head teacher as proof of your profession as a teacher. You will have to upload this document as part of the registration process.

An e-mail will be sent to the email you used, confirming the success of the registration. 

Yes. You can self-edit later

Log into the British Council Schools Online website to review the various trainings, resources and services you can benefit from.   

The emphasis of the programme is to build the capacity of teachers and school leaders in Ghana to support them to integrate a new range of core skills into the curriculum, with a focus on:

• digital literacy 

• critical thinking and problem solving 

• creativity and imagination 

• student leadership

• collaboration and communication 

• citizenship

There will be opportunity for interested participants to engage with schools, teachers and school leaders in the UK on joint curricular work. 

No. The trainings and resources available are fully funded by British Council and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), so trainings are free for participants. Participant however, will have to cater for their own transportation to and from the training venues. 

We shall be working through District / Municipal / Metropolitan Education Offices in reaching out to teachers. However, the trainings are also available online for completion at your own pace

The trainings take place at venues provided by District/Municipal/Metropolitan Directors of Education. These may include conference halls / assembly halls of schools, etc. 

The trainings are in 2 forms. The introductory course is completed in 1 day, after which participants are eligible to participate in the in-depth courses. 

Each in-depth course takes 3 days; 2 days of face to face training, a 10 – 14 weeks gap during which participants implement the learning and complete a school based activity and then return for the final day of training and debriefing.

Yes. Certificates will be provided for participants who complete the entire duration of the training. 

There trainings are available as a face-to-face training or as an online course on the Schools Online website (https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/home/regions/ssa). Both seek to build the capacity of teachers and school leaders to support them to integrate a new range of core skills (outlined above) into the curriculum. Once you attend the face to face session, there is no need doing the online version. However, you can do an online course in a different core skill. 

No. Both public and private schools from primary to secondary level can register to be part of the trainings. 

Kindly send an email to: connectingclassrooms.ghana@britishcouncil.org