Teaching for a greener future - climate and sustainability

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Teaching for a greener future - climate and sustainability

“We are in a climate emergency. As President of the European Council, I have a clear goal: to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent on the planet by 2050” (Charles Michel, European Council President). How can education contribute to achieving this goal? If you recognize its crucial role, seize the opportunity to enrol in this course and contribute to our shared sustainability endeavours.

Last updated: 03.05.2024

Description

How can education contribute to achieving this goal? If you recognize its crucial role, seize the opportunity to enrol in this course and actively contribute to our shared sustainability endeavours through your own context. As a teacher, you will learn innovative pedagogical approaches and instructional strategies to translate complex scientific concepts into engaging and accessible lessons for your students. Drawing from good practices in environmental education, you will discover how to adapt curriculum materials, design hands-on activities, and facilitate meaningful discussions that foster climate literacy and environmental stewardship among your students.

Learning objectives

Understand the basics of climate change including its causes, impacts and potential solutions, through case studies and examples, to effectively integrate these critical topics into your teaching curriculum.
Explore teaching methods and tools for addressing the topic of climate change and sustainability.
Design a learning activity that incorporates key concepts from the online course on climate change and sustainability.

Methodology & assessment

The course is offered as an asynchronous course with flexibility in regard to when and where participants follow the course content and join the course activities. However, there is a final deadline in place for the submission of a course product. Participants are required to actively contribute to the course activities by sharing their work and submitting a course product. This product is submitted and assessed by peers or the course instructor in the final module of the course.

Certification details

Upon successful completion of the course, a digital course certificate is awarded. The certificate shows the name of the learner and key course details such as the estimated learning hours, the learning objectives, and a link to the course homepage.

Additional information

Language:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Primary education (ISCED 1)

Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
Target audience type:

Teacher

Head Teacher / Principal

Teacher Educator
Learning time:

5-10 hours