Course Description
This hands-on Erasmus+ teacher training on "Sustainability and environmentally-friendly approaches to teaching" equips educators to make sustainability central to everyday teaching and to international mobility. You’ll learn how to run engaging, low-impact school projects and embed environmental literacy across subjects while also gaining practical know-how to plan and deliver student and staff sustainable Erasmus+ mobilities with a green footprint in mind.
Through project-based templates, step-by-step checklists and replicable school sustainability projects, the course shows how to incorporate sustainability into the classroom and school events. These activities are designed to be curriculum-aligned and easy to scale across age groups and subject areas. Participants will learn about reducing their carbon footprint, incorporating sustainability into the classroom through reducing paper usage and using energy-efficient technology, and engage in hands-on activities to promote good practices in schools.
The programme also covers sustainable mobility planning from end to end and designing host-country activities that prioritise nature-based learning and local sustainability initiatives. You’ll learn how to create mobility sustainability action plans that satisfy Erasmus+ project goals and school policies.
Course Content
- Introduction to sustainability and environmental awareness
- Overview of the environmental impact of teaching practices
- Strategies for reducing waste and energy consumption in the classroom
- Best practices for using sustainable materials in teaching
- Incorporating environmental education into the curriculum (cross-curricular lesson design, assessment of climate literacy)
- Assessing and reducing the carbon footprint of school activities and events
- Designing school sustainability projects and pupil-led campaigns
- Planning sustainable mobilities for student and staff Erasmus+ mobilities
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Understand the importance of sustainability and environmental awareness in education
- Apply tools to assess and reduce the environmental impact of classroom practice and school activities
- Design and implement curriculum-linked school sustainability projects that promote climate literacy and pupil-led action
- Plan and coordinate low-carbon Erasmus+ mobilities for students and staff
- Use behaviour-change techniques and classroom routines to embed eco-friendly classroom strategies that cut waste and energy use.
- Utilise resources and tools for promoting sustainability in education to turn sustainable classroom good practices and mobility experiences into curriculum outcomes and long-term school policies
Assessment and Certificates
Assessment of performance will be through delegate-completed portfolio of work. The final course certification for successful completion is a college-issued “Course Certificate of Completion” for each module studied. In addition, where applicable, delegates will receive relevant EuroPass certificates.
