The Teaching the Future project organized and held the teacher training event in Athens, Doukas School, 6-9 November 2023. The aim of the training was to train teachers in using real world data towards raising environmental awareness.
Teachers from Greece, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Cyprus attended the event during the course of which they were introduced to the project’s tools (dashboard, storymaps, etc.) and were engaged in multiple activities that allowed them to exchange ideas and plan for possible implementation in the class in such a way as to achieve the optimal learning outcomes while educating students on environmental awareness and sustainability issues.
The training consisted of 4 main topics/modules. More specifically:
Module 1: Climate – Addressing the challenge
Module 2: Methodologies for powerful learning
Module 3: Encouraging students’ engagement to local issues
Module 4: Data, tools, and resources
There was a diversity of subjects that each teacher teaches (geography, mathematics, robotics, etc.), as the topic of the training and the project is relevant across the different schools subjects. This allowed for an interdisciplinary approach by teachers during the teacher training activities they were engaged. with.
The trainees contributed with ideas on learning activities a teacher may implement in the classroom and these material will be made publicly available through the project’s website.
There were a lot of networking opportunities and exchanging of ideas during and after the teacher training time, during the course of the social activities organized (participant dinners, city walking tour, etc.).