Workshops for teachers

Delivering Sustainability Across the Curriculum’ teacher workshops and training courses are designed to encourage and aid teachers in bringing climate change and sustainability issues into the classroom. Workshops combine a choice of talks, practical activities and interactive demonstrations in order to explore ways of linking sustainability across science, geography, environmental science and citizenship.

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Mark Ormerod stands by to answer questions during a biofuels experiment at the Triple Science teaching course, February 2008.

Due to the recent government-led changes in school science curricula and initiatives aimed at teaching subjects such as climate change across discipline boundaries there is a real need to assist teachers in their development of new areas of skills and knowledge. The Science for Sustainability teacher training workshop activities directly address these changes to the curricula and help teachers through providing knowledge updates in a range of related areas and demonstrating methods of tackling these issues in the curricula through a range of interactive activities suitable for use in the classroom.

The science for Sustainability team has experience of providing curriculum-targeted teacher training workshops for teachers from a range of discipline backgrounds from Geography through to the Sciences and has developed a range of innovative and well-targeted resources and workshop activities aimed at aiding teachers and addressing the challenges imposed by the changes to the schools curriculum.

All teacher training workshops are half-day (2.5 hours) and comprise of a choice of Talks and Activities, tailored to the audience and any specific requirements. One workshop can comprise of between 2-4 of the options as listed below (dependent on the activity).

Talks:

Climate Change Science – Understanding at the causes and impacts of climate change
Cutting Carbon at School – Looking at the practical steps in reducing carbon emissions at school
Sustainable Energy - The role of renewable and clean energy technologies as part of a global sustainable future
Education for sustainable development – Discussing the challenges and opportunities of teaching climate change across the curriculum

Activities:

Approaches to challenging questions and debating controversial issues
Solar power scrapheap challenge
Fuel cell car and solar power demonstrations
Methanol fuel cell activity

For more information about the workshops for teachers and training teachers please contact us.