Teaching Sustainability through Project-based Learning

Third-party on-site course

This course guides teachers through a Project-based Learning (PBL) approach to teaching sustainability themes, through English.
The course is suitable for language teachers, or subject teachers, who want to better understand how to design, develop and implement engaging projects on sustainability, through English language medium instruction.

Last updated: 10.03.2025

Next upcoming session:

07.07.2025 - 11.07.2025

Ireland , Dublin , Dublin

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Description

This course gives teachers a framework for supporting students in developing, through English, the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to achieve a sustainable and green future. Using ATC’s project-based learning course for Secondary students (Green Voices) as a model project, teachers work through project tasks and processes, discussing teaching techniques and resources, and reflecting on how they might be adapted to suit their students and their teaching context. Exploring elements of good project design, teachers are supported to develop their own projects. Choosing a sustainability initiative, teachers write driving questions, develop project goals and create an action plan. They learn how to develop a digital project wall to organise project work, and how to create engaging podcasts.

Course Modules:

PBL for Sustainability

The Green Voices Project

Planning a Project (From Idea to Output)

Teaching Research Skills

Language Support in PBL

Podcasting

Reflection and Feedback in PBL

Learning objectives

Help teachers:

Use an enquiry-based approach to explore the challenging issues facing us today and develop students' understanding of sustainable development goals and initiatives.
Create authentic projects that connect to students’ interests and identities and help them explore how they might make a difference towards a more sustainable and green future.
Organise and manage projects using digital ‘Project Walls’.
Use differentiated teaching techniques to meet the individual needs of students.
Support students in the development of their language around themes of sustainability, helping them to communicate with confidence, through English, about their ideas and initiatives.
Encourage reflection on work and reflection on learning, helping to develop students’ critical thinking skills and independent learning strategies.
Use podcasting tools, to help students develop engaging and meaningful final project ‘products’, where they use their ‘Green Voices’ to share their project ideas with others.

Methodology & assessment

The course combines course input from ATC’s trainers with group discussion and collaborative work. Teachers work in a cross-cultural learning environment to share experiences and best practice with colleagues from across the EU. The course is hands-on and practical and teachers are supported to develop their own sustainability project. They learn how to create digital project walls to organize and manage their projects and log their work; and how to create fun and engaging podcasts to present their project ideas and initiatives to others.
On the final day of the course participants present their project idea to their peers receiving peer- and instructor-feedback on its benefits and ways to differentiate and adapt it. A library of resource material related to each module is available to participants on ATC’s Platform for Teachers, ATC Connect.

Materials, digital tools & other learning resources

All course materials and resources are available to teachers on ATC's online Teacher Platform, ATC Connect.

Certification details

Participants are awarded a signed Course Certificate by ATC Language Schools, with the following information:

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Pricing, packages and other information

Price:

495

Euro
Course package content:

Course package includes course fees + 3-months' post-course access to ATC's online Teacher Platform, ATC Connect.
Please note that all bookings will be subject to a €60 registration fee.
Additional information:

Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
Cancellation & changes:

Minimum numbers are required for a course to proceed in full, please see here for details – ATC Teacher’s Courses.
For full booking terms please see here – ATC Booking Terms.
Additional information:

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Additional information

Language:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)

Post-secondary non-tertiary education (ISCED 4)
Target audience type:

Teacher

Student Teacher

Teacher Educator
Learning time:

25 hours or more