Green skills for education: promoting environmental awareness and sustainable actions in the classroom (Palermo)
This course allows participants to share and discuss ideas, challenges, best practices and strategies to face the enable students to face the real-world challenges of today and tomorrow and develop green and future-oriented minds and curricula.
Description
- Course category: Innovative Teaching Methods
- Locations: Bologna, Palermo, Tenerife, Rimini, Porto, Thessaloniki
- Target Audience: teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff
- Preregistration: Online in the course webpage
- Related courses: Promoting Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving in the classroom, Non-Formal Education, Introducing Project Based Learning in the classroom , Outdoor Education courses
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This training course allows participants to get a deeper insight and sharing of the role teachers can play in promoting a green skill set and a learning environment responsive to the most topical global challenges. Participants will learn and practice tools and strategies to model conscious behaviors, promote dialogue among students on climate change, plan lessons around sustainable development goals, grow future-oriented and critical minds.The general aim of this course is to equip teachers and education staff with formal, informal and non-formal tools to become active players in the green transition, developing students' green skills and promoting a behavioral change in favor of our planet. More...
Learning objectives
- Gain inspiration on how to develop students green skill set, including knowledge about sustainability themes and responsible attitudes towards the environment;
- Get acquainted with teaching material on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how to integrate it in the curriculum;
- Learn how to approach topical issues of global warming, carbon cycle, carbon sinks, food consumption, population growth (and much more) through non-formal and experiential learning activities;
- Get hints on how to make a lesson greener through the use of ICT, creativity-based approaches, outdoor-inspired activities and project-based learning;
- Be ready to take action and make personal and classroom plans for a green change;
- Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers.
Standard Daily Programme
Sunday- Participants arrival
- Networking activities
- Cultural activities in the city
- The pyramid of green skills
- Sustainability and sustainable development
- Perception of climate change
- Hard green skills in the classroom
- Soft skills to foster a green mindset in our students
- Practical activities for self-awareness and responsiveness
- Critical thinking skills on relevant green themes
- The importance of questioning, reasoning and debating
- Practical activities and tools for analyzing sustainability challenges
- Innovative teaching methods
- Real-world challenges and student driven activities: PBL
- Outdoor Education
- Presentation of a best practice Erasmus+ KA2 project: Let's ACT
- Creating your green action plans
- Designing a green lesson plan
- Course wrap-up and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Participants departure
Methodology & assessment
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaborative working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on transferring knowledge and skills which are applicable to real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential learning, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
We support our partners in every step of the course: from application, to preparation, to monitoring and evaluation and collection of all final documentation. Morning wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure the learning programme is finely tailored to participants' needs. At the end of each course, we provide participants with supporting material and multiple dissemination evidence.
We commit to make participants feel at home during our courses, catering for their personal, practical and educational needs. Indeed, in addition to delivering the training, we provide board and lodging in the same hotel where the course takes place, thus ensuring the best comfort and coziness as well as effective time management.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know the venue’s culture as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional links. The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Certification details
Pricing, packages and other information
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Package contents:AccommodationCourse
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Additional information:
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2023 costs EUR 1130 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 networking meals, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding.
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more