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Teacher briefings

These short, easy-to-read overviews for teachers cover a range of challenging topics. They give the background, modern relevance and significance to students plus lesson ideas and activities.

Flowers and teddy bear with message of loss

Bereavement

This briefing for teachers outlines the current understanding of the sensitive subject of bereavement, that is often avoided.

Woman putting a donation into a fundraising bucket

Charity fundraising

Fundraising by students in schools is not always as educational as it could be. Take fundraising to another level with these tips.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone

Charles Taylor and the war crimes tribunal

Who is Charles Taylor? What is Liberia? What are blood diamonds? What links the Charles Taylor trial and Naomi Campbell? A quick briefing answers these questions.

Child soldiers in a pick-up truck

Child soldiers

Children play an active part in conflicts across the world, facing injury and death. Explore the emotional, practical and legal consequences.

Woman using a wheelchair in a garden

The social model of disability

This teacher briefing introduces a different way of thinking about disability. It has been developed over years by academics and campaigners.

Men offloading rice sacks from a truck

Disasters Emergency Committee

During major emergencies the DEC gets active. Who forms this little-known group? What does it do, and why? This briefing explains.

A Bangladeshi woman standing in front of a collapsed hut and rural landscape. Credit: Rajiv Amirul (BRC) 2007

Discrimination and disasters

This teacher briefing explains how some groups of people, who need help the most, often get least help in an emergency.