Online Sessions ALE2

Welcome to our blended learning course! 

There will be synchronous and asynchronous online sessions over three weeks and an optional face to face component in the fourth and final week.

Each week includes one synchronous session (1 - 1.5 hours), plus approximately 3.5 hours self-study activities. 

The course is connected to the Learning Teaching Package (LTP) 'A Sustainable Europe'. Key topics include: sustainability values and thinking, European citizenship, linguistic and cultural diversity in European secondary schools and education for sustainability. During the course, participants experience and reflect on LTP activities in relation to their learners and contexts. 

In the first week, participants consider personal and sustainability values and apply systems thinking to explore a sustainability issue, and its causes and impacts, at local and/or global level.

In the second week, our focus moves to an exploration of the main drivers of sustainability education in Europe as we look at some of the political moves for change and the practical actions taken at EU level to encourage teachers and other educators to engage with promoting sustainability and climate action.  

During the third week, participants reflect on personal and social identities and multilingualism, and explore pedagogical strategies for including learners' linguistic and cultural resources as well as language teaching and learning across the curriculum. 

The face to face sessions in Santarém bring together participants from different countries to share, experience and reflect on further education for sustainability topics, activities and materials. There will also be 'learning by doing" through an outdoor education activity, and an optional evening program.

Enjoy the activities. We are looking forward to learning with and from you!