The Global Schoolroom programme is a focused response to voiced needs and is designed specifically to address the difficulties faced by teachers in the areas where it operates. It harnesses the professionalism and goodwill of teachers in Ireland and the UK and their colleagues in India and Africa across the world. These needs are being addressed, not from outside the profession, but from within in a spirit of peer sharing.

The fact that the Programme is driven by the demands of academic and professional best practice ensures that energy is not dissipated or wasted on peripheral issues. The programme actively and consciously avoids a patronising, service-delivery approach. Instead it creates and fosters a real and equal partnership between educators worldwide.

The arrival of four Global Schoolroom graduates from India in April 2011 was testament to this philosophy. Following additional training and support from Global Schoolroom and University College Dublin these teachers joined their colleagues from Ireland and the UK as part of the Global Schoolroom tutor team.