GreenComp for Teachers: Teaching Sustainability in the Classroom
About this course
Sustainability is not only for science or geography lessons: maths, languages, history, art, technology and vocational subjects can all help students understand environmental challenges and feel able to act. This sustainability course shows you how to bring GreenComp, the European framework of sustainability competences, into your own lessons, whatever subject you teach. It is designed for primary, secondary and vocational classrooms and focuses entirely on what you can do with your students.
Over five days, you will explore the four areas of GreenComp and see how they connect with the content and skills of your subject. You will try out classroom activities and projects on zero waste and the circular economy, from analysing everyday consumption to designing solutions that reuse and repair. You will learn how to teach climate change in a positive, hopeful way that avoids fear and helps students move from worry to action. You will also discover a wide range of screen-free games, simulations and hands-on activities you can use straight away, and practical ways to assess green competences with rubrics, observation and self-assessment. Every session connects directly with the final goal of the course.
By the end of the week, you will have designed your own green teaching unit for your subject, ready to use with your students, and created a plan to integrate sustainability into your everyday teaching.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Integrate sustainability into their everyday teaching in any subject.
- Evaluate and adapt sustainability activities to their students' ages and needs.
- Encourage students to think critically about sustainability and take positive action.
- Share green teaching units and activities with colleagues at their school.
- Use GreenComp to plan sustainability activities linked to their subject.
- Design classroom projects on zero waste, the circular economy and climate action.
- Apply teaching strategies that talk about climate change positively and avoid fear.
- Use screen-free games, simulations and hands-on activities about sustainability.
- Create assessment tools, such as rubrics and self-assessment, for green competences.
- Understand what GreenComp is and its four areas: sustainability values, complexity, future thinking and taking action.
- Identify how sustainability can be connected to the content and skills of any subject.
- Recognise the key ideas of zero waste, the circular economy and climate action in a way students can understand.
- Explain how green competences can be observed and assessed in the classroom.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
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services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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