Title: EXPLORING METHODOLOGIES ON TEACHING AND LEARNING SUSTAINABILITY
The 2nd TAP-TS Summer/Spring School brings together primary school teachers and instructional leaders from across Europe to discuss methodologies, strategies and practices to promote sustainability goals. This face-to-face quality professional learning experience aims to support educators in becoming familiar with teaching and learning methodologies such as problem-solving and inquiry-based learning, STEM/STEAM methodologies, promoting critical thinking and argumentation. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss, share and critically reflect on activities and/or adapt material from the Learning and Teaching Packages already prepared by the TAP-TS project partners.
Moreover, the whole school approach will be in focus. Instructional leaders and teachers will have the opportunity to explore approaches, tools and procedures that support in-school teachers’ professional learning about sustainability and promote students’ learning via integrating sustainability in the curriculum. Common goals, collective action and reflection will be the focus for transforming our schools into sustainability hubs, where students are being prepared as active citizens.
The Summer/Spring School aims to contribute to the creation and evolution of a community of educators who work towards the promotion of education for sustainable futures in Europe, in an interactive and trusting professional context.
The 1st day of the Summer School aimed to create a common ground from which the participants would initiate an exchange of ideas and experiences, as they brought along diverse background and professional status. Therefore, activities on Day 1 focused on familiarizing the participants with the content of the TAP-TS project and with the reasoning around which the summer school was structured and offering the participants opportunities to discuss concepts and aspects of content of education for sustainability.
