Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Teaching Climate and Sustainability in Primary Schools: An Outdoor Learning Approach
This online course covered the importance of teaching climate and sustainability using an outdoor learning approach and explored ideas to put this into practice in a school.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Helen Bilton
Professor of Outdoor Learning and Play
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Justify why it is important to teach climate and sustainability using an outdoor learning approach.
- Build a personal resource containing links to further reading and materials that will expand your own knowledge of climate and sustainability as a foundation for your teaching.
- Develop your understanding of the benefits of outdoor learning to empower children to care for the environment.
- Collaborate to develop ideas for teaching climate and sustainability outside for your own working practice.
Syllabus
- The crucial importance of being outside for learning how to love and care for the Earth.
- Explore a case study from a school which is approaching climate and sustainability education outdoors through their values, curriculum and general school life.
- The knowledge and skills required for outdoor learning including the potential challenges and solutions.
- Recommendations for how to pursue your own understanding of climate and sustainability and develop an action plan for incorporating the topics into your teaching.
- Opportunity to work with other teachers to develop approaches relevant to your own context and be empowered to transform your own working practices to deliver climate and sustainability education.
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Issued on 24th November 2023
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