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Active Learning Event 4:
Sustainability for primary education: The voice of teachers!
for primary level
TAP-TS Active Learning Event for primary level educators
Description
This course includes Online Webinars and a three-day Active Learning Event in Santarém. The online webinars promote engagement with specific aspects of Sustainable Futures Education (SFE) and foster the design and testing of innovative teaching concepts. The event in Santarém is a chance for further engagement, reflection and exchange of practical learning and teaching activities.
Online seminars are held in English, with language support such as subtitles, translation and translanguaging available. The F2F events are in English.
The focus on Sustainability for primary education: The voice of teachers! aims to straight the relations between student teachers, in-service teachers, and educators to reflect about teaching sustainability in primary education.
The target groups are student teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators.
The Active Learning Event 4 comprises two online webinars, one to start the event theme, on 22th of April, and another one at the end the event for sharing and discussing practices, on 23th May. Between those two webinars, a three-day face-to-face workshop will occur in Santarém, from 2nd- to 4th of May.
During the course, participants will be involved in practical activities and reflection about teaching sustainability in primary education. Also, the participants will reflect about the development of competences defined on GreenComp with their students.
In F2F, after the participation in thematic workshops based on the LTPs, participants will be organized in small international groups that share a specific interest to develop in their practice.
⚠️ Registration for ALE4 📝
Application closes on February 29th
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Active Learning Event 3:
Sustainable Futures Education: Digitality, entrepreneurship, decoloniality
and serious games at secondary level
for secondary level
A TAP-TS Active Learning Event for secondary level educators
Description
Explore Education for Sustainable Futures in theory and in practice with student teachers, teachers and teacher educators from across Europe as part of an international community of practice.
This Active Learning Event (ALE) comprises three online webinars and the chance to attend a three-day face-to-face workshop in Dresden from 21st-23rd of March. During the course, participants gain a foundation in Sustainable Futures Education (SFE) in general and in relation to a special interest area of their choice. Participants select a special interest area by joining one of the following working groups (WG) at the point of registration.
A detailed description of the ALE, can be found here
Working groups
- WG1: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Education
- WG2: Sustainability and Digitality
- WG3: Decoloniality and Sustainable Futures Education
- WG4: Teaching Sustainability & Resilience through Games and Simulations
Course format
This Active Learning Event fosters international networking and sharing of experiences between educators, and the design and testing of innovative teaching concepts. A three-day workshop hosted by TU Dresden provides for further interaction, engagement and reflection, with a focus on practical learning and teaching activities.
The first introductory webinar focuses on Sustainable Futures Education (SFE), in relation to participants’ own understandings and international discourses. The second webinar is held in Working Groups, and enables participants to gain a deeper understanding of one aspect of SFE in theory and in practice. During the three-day face-to-face event, participants share practical activities developed for their teaching contexts, reflections and learning. A final webinar provides further opportunity for sharing of practical activities, reflections and learning.
This is a multilingual course. English is the main language of international communication for webinars and face-to-face face workshops. There will be opportunities for participants to use their main languages during group work, and access language support such as subtitles, translation and translanguaging.
A certificate of participation can be provided on request, detailing the content of webinars and face-to-face workshops attended.Duration
- 3 webinars between 4 March and 22 April 2024
- 3-day face-to-face event in Dresden (March 21-23) (for selected* participants) plus an optional day (March 24)
Schedule
Webinar 1: Foundations of Sustainable Futures Education
- Monday March 4th 14.50-16.20 CET
Webinar 2: Sustainable Futures Education Working Groups
- Monday March 11th 14.50-16.20 CET
Face to face workshops
- 21-23 March plus 24 March (optional day)
Accommodation in twin bed rooms for the period 20. March – 24. March for free
Breakfast, lunch and refreshments on 21., 22. and 23. March for free
Breakfast and lunch on the optional day, 24. March, for free
Welcome Dinner on the 21. March for free
Reimbursement of travel costs: Student teachers and in-service teachers from EU-countries receive a
reimbursement of their real travel costs up to an amount of 650 EUR. The
reimbursement limit depends on the country of origin. German teachers cannot receive a travel costs reimbursement.
IMPORTANT: Please, be aware that the travel costs can be reimbursed only AFTER the event.
FUNDING AND PARTICIPATION FEE FOR GERMAN SERVING TEACHERS
Teachers from German secondary schools are very welcome to participate. They pay a participation fee only to cover the costs for
refreshments (lunches, welcome dinner, coffee breaks) and social
program, as follows:
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- participation on the 21st March (two coffee breaks, lunch, welcome dinner): 70 EUR
- participation on the 22nd March (two coffee breaks, lunch, dinner snacks): 50 EUR
- participation on the 23rd March (two coffee breaks, lunch, dinner snacks): 50 EUR
- participation on the 24th March (one coffee break and lunch): 30 EUR
Webinar 3: Exchange and Reflection on Learning and Practice
- Monday April 22nd 2024 14.50-16.20 CET
⚠️ Registration 📝
Application closes on February 5th
Selection criteria
Places are limited. We use the following criteria when selecting participants for online and face-to-face events.
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Secondary-level teachers (we prioritize serving teachers, places are also available for student teachers and teacher educators)
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Marginalisation (we aim to be an inclusive and diverse community and therefore prioritize applications from people who experience/have experienced discrimination in their personal and/or professional lives).
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Geographical spread (we aim for participants across EU member states)
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Commitment to apply and share learning in your context of practice
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Active Learning Event 2:
A sustainable Europe
for secondary level
Course description
This is a blended learning course, with 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, the focus is placed upon the use of serious games and gamification in the classroom to enhance learning. The participants learn how to use and develop games to tackle climate change challenges.
During the third week, participants reflect on personal and social identities and multilingualism, and explore pedagogical strategies for including learners’ linguistic and cultural resources and language teaching and learning across the curriculum.
The face to face sessions in Santarem 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.
Course schedule
Synchronous sessions- Week 1: Monday, 08.05.23 15:30-17:00 CET (includes 30-minute course
- introduction)
- Week 2: Monday, 15.05.23 16.00-17.00 CET
- Week 3: Monday, 22.05.23 16.00-17.00 CET
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Week 4: Face to face in Santarem, Portugal. 1st to 3rd of June.
Registration
The application deadline for the face to face workshop in Santarem is 10.05.23. Decisions will be sent out by 15.05.23
Applications for this event are closed
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Active Learning Event 1
Environment, Citizenship and Digitality: Towards a Sustainable Future
for primary level
Course description
This is a blended learning course, with synchronous and asynchronous online sessions over three weeks and an optional face to face component in the fourth and final week.
During the first week, participants gain an overview of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the relationship between sustainability and environmental education. Through practical activities, which can be adapted for primary age learners, participants explore SDG 15 ‘Life on Land’, in particular ecosystems, biodiversity, and the impacts of exotic and invasive species globally and locally.
During the second week, participants explore climate crisis resilience through games. They learn how traditional board games can be transformed into instruments for raising awareness of the climate crisis and building resilience to tackle different types of climate crises.
The third week focuses on the relationship between sustainability and digitality. Participants consider environmental impacts of technology and the relationship between (digital) technology and sustainability from a global perspective. This includes such questions as: which precious ‘conflict minerals’ are needed to produce technology, the energy requirements of its use, the related CO2 emissions and considerations for their disposal or recycling. Participants will explore the ways in which technologies have always been instruments of world measurement - also of world exploration - and thus can make a significant contribution to mitigating the climate crisis.
The face to face sessions in Santarem bring together participants from different countries to interact, and experience and reflect on further course activities and materials. There will also be ‘learning by doing’ through an outdoor education activity, and an optional evening program.
Course schedule
- Online-Synchronous: 12.04.2023, 05:30-07:30 pm CET
- Asynchronous Self-learning online phase 12.04-19.4
- Online-Synchronous: 19.04.2023, 06:00-07:30 pm CET
- Asynchronous Self-learning online phase 19.04-26.4.
- Online-Synchronous: 26.4.2023, 07:00-08:00 pm CET
- Face-to-face workshop in Santarem: 4-6.5.2023
Registration
The application deadline for the face to face workshop in Santarem is 04.04.23. Decisions will be sent out by 07.04.23
Applications for this event are closed