Look to the future

By completing this course, you will be able to:

• Develop of participants’ knowledge, skills and competencies related to sustainability..
• Increased knowledge of methodology and a framework for teaching Climate Change.
• Deeper understanding on Sustainability and Climate Change and how to approach it in the classroom.
• Improved sense of international cooperation.
• Creating own exercises, lessons plans and other materials.
• Knowing ways in which learners’ achievements can be tested and assessed in the topic.
• Broader understanding of practices, policies and systems on environment and sustainability education in Europe.
• Increased awareness of the link between environmental and social phenomena.
• Knowing practical tools suitable for teaching the subject, including visual tools, Internet and multi-media.

• DAY 1: Our planet today

Climate change

Obsolescence

Sugar: myths and facts

Food Waste Footprint

A healthy way to live

Reduce, reduce and reduce

• DAY 2: Building a better world

Zero waste

My manual to save our planet

Reduce, reuse and compost

Eco-friendly calendar

Field trip to a local and environmental friendly school

The course is designed to be practical, while the theoretical topics focus on key concepts and strategies for implementation in a variety of schools and classrooms.

The practical portions of the course are related to group experiences and needs and are based on teamwork, both in pairs and with group projects.

Participants will practice trying to implement this topic in different disciplines.

The course concludes with a reflection on learning outcomes and an evaluation session.

• Verifying and developing your pedagogical and communication skills.
• Improving the perspectives and development opportunities of each student.
• Giving possibility to attract students more by presenting topic in a more interesting and appealing way.
• Increasing motivation for professional development.
• Reaching even the most demanding students in an easier way.
• Managing feelings and conflicts by focusing on solutions.
• Cooperating with teachers as well as with students and parents.
• Promoting group work and long-term projects to provoke changes which will allow to take off unnecessary burden off the shoulders of the educational staff and exert greater impact on the learning process and more satisfying and stimulating climate of coexistence in the school context.