TEACHER TRAINING

We support teachers to design and deliver engagements between young people and politicians to get the most out of every interaction. We provide a range of in-person and online CPD connected to our programmes. See below our upcoming teacher training opportunities:

Upcoming teacher training opportunities:

Resources

We create a range of teaching resources for students aged 10 - 18 years old to support them to learn about social and political issues and prepare for engagements with decision-makers. 

Our resources are specially designed to support young people to engage with politicians. Our unique Explore-Understand-Prepare pedagogy ensures young people have the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to engage meaningfully with decision-makers.

A sample of our teaching resources:

Dialogue sessions

We support young people to engage with decision-makers through our one-hour dialogue sessions that we often call “surgeries” when they are with a sitting politician. In these sessions, we co-design the format and facilitate the session to help students, teachers and politicians get the most out of each engagement.

The sessions are led by students and we carefully design interactive activities to help young people and politicians build relationships fast and discuss social and political issues.

We also support teachers to identify which learning outcomes they want to achieve from each session. We help them to build a scheme of work to deliver around the engagement, enabling them to integrate these sessions into their teaching.

90% of young people felt they had a good understanding of a politician’s roles and responsibilities after working with us.

73% of young people felt they could trust the politician they spoke with, an increase of 31% from their views before the session.

100% of teachers feel our sessions improve oracy.

PLEDGES

Beyond Talk

One of the most powerful parts of the Digital Dialogue sessions are the pledges that are made by the politicians to the young people. They enable young people to see the impacts that politicians, at all levels, can have on the big, and little, things in our daily lives.

We follow up on all pledges and ensure that any commitments made are carried out and promises are upheld. This is then fed back to the young people involved in the session.

By demonstrating when politicians do what they say they will, we are helping to build trust and establish strong relationships between young people and their representatives, as well as ensure that young people feel part of the democratic process, get their voices heard, and help make their own lives better. 

See below for a full gallery of pledges from the past few years. 

We hold an engagement between young people and a politician.

We note down any actions that the politician offers to take forward and ask the politician to pledge to follow through.

We agree a time by which the politician will report back to the students and help them to do this.

We showcase the pledges below and help politicians to communicate their actions to the young people.