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Online Workshop 4: 

Teaching Sustainability in European secondary schools; Ideas and approaches 

27th January - 3rd February 2025

Summary

Teachers and other educators serve as key influencers in shaping students' perspectives and behaviours towards sustainability. By bringing together the knowledge and skills to address challenging sustainability topics, such as climate change, resource depletion, and social inequality, teachers can empower their students to become active participants in creating a more sustainable and just future. A key aspect of TAP-TS project work is to support teachers to build such capabilities. Indeed, our central purpose is to support and resource teachers to engage with and teach difficult aspects of sustainability – particularly emphasising resilience and positive action.

Description

This short-course is designed to help teachers to build a better knowledge of sustainability and how teaching sustainability can be approached in a secondary learning setting. It draws from a range of TAP-TS activities and resources for engaging learners with a focus on the nature of sustainability and the question of building a sustainable Europe. Participants will become more ‘sustainability aware’ and so gain a better appreciation of the collaborative and active nature of good sustainability learning and how to enable this as a teacher. The course introduces a set of well-tested and engaging teaching resources curated or developed by TAP-TS – which will be useful to  teachers setting up learning for sustainability activities in their schools.

As a participant, you should expect to: 

• Learn about the characterises and features of good learning for sustainability (LfS);
• Examine the nature of a number of strong learning resources from across the subject and age range you teach;
• Consider the pedagogical and didactic variables that contribute to the personal and professional learning experiences facilitated by the resources explored during the course;
• Explore some ideas about how to capture the value of the learning experiences provided in and through the  course units.

The short learning–tasks offered at the end of each unit and the final Course Award Task provide opportunities to reflect, discuss and share opinions on teaching and learning for sustainability. These will include the chance to consider the personal teaching benefits that can result from the course. They will also include opportunity to build capability in designing a meaningful learning experience for a community of learners.

Online Workshop 4 is designed for: 

• Teachers and student teachers; secondary
• Teacher educators

Course schedule

This is a TAP-TS short-form course. It runs 27th January - 3rd February 2025 and will involve two live-on-line sessions and two self-paced units of activity:

1. Opening session, live online: Monday, 27 January 2025; 16h-17h CET (3pm-4pm Dublin)
2. Unit 1 - Teaching for Sustainability; 28 - 30 January
3. Unit 2 - Climate Information, disinformation & misinformation; 31 January - 2 February
4. Closing session, live online: Monday, 3 February 2025; 16h-17h CET (3pm-4pm Dublin)

Workload and commitment

Workshop presenters and moderators

• Conor GALVIN, UCD Dublin. 
• Rachel FARRELL, UCD Dublin.
• Niall BRADY, UCD Dublin.

Social Media channels

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Please use course hashtag #TAPTSOW4

Registration

Registration is now open at: https://forms.gle/gVE6F2TYfAYY6Dgy7

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Online Workshop 3: Teaching Sustainability with Scenario Based Learning 

 

 

Course description

During this course, participants take the role of students and operate in the framework of a fictitious story. The narrative describes the plans to develop an island in the south of Europe. The participants of the online course need to come up individually and in teams with the best possible decisions to find a compromise between sustainability, environmental issues, well-being and economic prosperity.

In the course the participants also wear the cap of teachers reflecting on the power of scenario based learning, techniques of serious games and role play as a framework to build discussion and critical thinking skills, as well as student engagement.

Course schedule

Start date: September 18, 2024

End date: September 25, 2024

The workload for asynchronous sessions: 4 hours

Registration

Please register here

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Online Workshop 2: Sustainable entrepreneurship education- for secondary level  

Course description

This course focuses on entrepreneurship education for sustainability, in relation to European competency frameworks: EntreComp and GreenComp. During this course participants develop their understanding of the relevance of sustainable entrepreneurship competences to sustainability, gain personal knowledge, skills and abilities related to sustainable entrepreneurship and review, develop and share teaching and learning materials for use with their students.

Course schedule

Start date: June 8, 2023

End date: June 13, 2023

The workload for asynchronous sessions: 4 hours

Registration

Registration is closed

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Online Workshop 1: Climate crisis resilience using serious games – for secondary level

Course description

During this course, participants operate in the framework of a fictitious story. The narrative describes the plans to develop an island in the south of Europe. The participants of the online course need to come up individually and in teams with the best possible decisions to find a compromise between sustainability, environmental issues, well-being and economic prosperity. The fictitious game narrative is the framework to consider sustainability concerns and tensions between them and to develop collaborative and critical thinking skills.

Course schedule

Start date: March 15, 2023

End date: March 21, 2023

This course is fully online, and includes synchronous sessions and asynchronous activities. The online sessions take place on the following dates and timings:

• Wednesday 15 March 2023, 4:00 - 5:00pm (CET)
• Monday 20 March 2023,  4:00 - 5:00pm (CET)

The workload for asynchronous sessions is 4 hours

Registration

Registration is CLOSED

NOTE: Participants will be notified for their acceptance until Monday, 13/3/2023 the latest. 

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