Student Teacher Exchange Series 2022
Teaching for A Sustainable World & Way of Living
A SCoTENS North-South Student Teacher Learning Event
This event brings together student teachers from a number of our SCoTENS partners. It offers the opportunity to meet virtually with other student teachers, north and south, to hear about what teachers do in this area, to share ideas and resources, and to work together on ways of teaching about sustainability and living sustainably.
You can Register for the SCoTENS Student-Teacher Learning Event here: https://forms.gle/ZKkn6yotmHCGbMbL8
MONDAY, 7 March 2022
The Launch Webinar
[5pm – 6:50pm for Post-primary] [7pm- 8:50pm for Primary]
Our event starts with a short talk from a member of the European Commission Working Group on Teaching for Sustainability who is an expert on Why we need to teach Sustainability in schools and how to start doing so. We then split into two groups to look at examples of teaching resources that are suitable for particular age groups and themes. These will be freely available to event participants and come from ECO-UNESCO, the UBUNTU Network, and Climate Coalition. The session closes with some ideas about how small teams can work together to do some interesting cross-border teaching about this as part of teaching practice/ placement.
https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/
TUESDAY, 8 March 2022
Teaching for a sustainable world.
[5pm – 6:50pm for Post-primary student teachers]
The second post-primary webinar is essentially an online workshop presenting materials & ideas to use in teaching and giving more detailed examples of how they can be used with different year groups at junior or senior cycles. The session will be led by two enthusiastic and very capable post-primary teachers who will share their practice and offer suggestions on how some of the Event Material can be used in a very practical and straightforward way within the curriculum and/or to support work for things like the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalists Award, or the UBUNTU Network materials on Global Citizenship. We will also offer an opportunity to match-up with other student teachers to do a SCoTENS activity based on various types of north-south one-off lessons and mini-projects.
WEDNESDAY, 9 March 2022
Teaching for a sustainable world.
[7pm – 8:50pm for Primary student teachers]
The second primary webinar is another online workshop presenting materials & ideas to use in teaching and giving more detailed examples of how they can be used with different year groups / stages across the primary school. The session will be led by two enthusiastic and very capable primary teachers who will share their practice and offer suggestions for how some of the Event Material can be used in a very practical and straightforward way within the primary curriculum and/or to support things like the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalists Award, or the Climate Coalitions School Challenges. We will also offer an opportunity to match-up with other student teachers to do a SCoTENS activity based on various types of north-south one-off lessons and mini-projects.
THURSDAY, 10 March 2022
Straightforward & Rewarding North-South Collaborations.
[5pm – 6:50pm for Post-primary] [7pm- 8:50pm for Primary]
In this final webinar in the series we will help and guide participants to develop straightforward & rewarding collaborations that can easily be built into teaching placement / practice activities and that will prove enjoyable for the children involved. The emphasis will be on short, purposive activities that lead to new experiences for the students and for the pupils in their classes. We will explain how to claim a SCoTENS Certificate for Participating in this North-South Student Teacher Learning Event, and how to access the the free packs of resources SCoTENS has developed for this event. We will also explain what needs to be done to qualify for a SCoTENS Project Award & Digital Badge for those who are interested in this option. We will close the event by explaining the ongoing supports and guidance that will be available to any students who want to take on a SCoTENS project, and how to apply for funding to participate in our (real-world) Student Teacher Open House in May 2022, where there will be an opportunity to meet project partners and showcase the work of your classes as well as to see what others have got up to!
We look forward to seeing you there!
CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION IS WEDNESDAY 23 FEBRUARY AT 4.00PM
You can Register for the SCoTENS Student-Teacher Learning Event here: https://forms.gle/ZKkn6yotmHCGbMbL8