Sustainability CPD October....8 Seminars Starting 11th October...BOOK NOW!!
As part of the summit we have a fantastic schedule of CPD lined up for October. Check it out!
Title: Bitesize Biodiversity
Date: Mondays 4-4.15pm (15mins)
Target Audience: Primary & Secondary Teachers (Wellbeing, CSPE, SPHE, Languages)
Delivered by: The Irish Schools Sustainability Network
Description: Nature made easy! Learn about one new living thing each week. Join a collective group of teachers for 15mins every Monday, who are bringing nature into their classrooms.
Title: Climate Change Education
Date: Oct 11th, 4.30-5.30
Target Audience: Primary
Delivered by: Ann Dolan
Description:
This session will explore a variety of approaches to climate change education as well as a range of resources that are already available. Using some of the approaches explored in her book 'Teaching Climate Change Education in Primary Schools', participants will leave with a wealth of practical approaches that they can use in their classrooms.
Title: Biodiversity
Date: Thursday 13th October
Target Audience: Primary & Secondary Teachers
Delivered by: ESCI and EcoEd4All
Description: Explore the journey of biodiversity from its early evolution to the current day crisis. Discover how biodiversity supports our survival and wellbeing and what actions we can take to protect all species on Earth, including humans.
Title: Teaching Energy and Climate in the Primary Classroom with SEAI
Date: Oct 18th, 4.30-5.30
Target Audience: Primary
Delivered by: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
Description:
This interactive online workshop will give you a taste of the free SEAI primary school teaching resources and how they can be used in the classroom to teach about energy, climate change and sustainability through discussion, inquiry based science investigations, design and make and interactive whiteboard resources. It will be run as a meeting style workshop rather than a webinar as we encourage teachers to get involved in predicting, planning and discussing using chat, voice and annotations and will encourage you to have cameras on for parts of the workshop.
Title: Not another poster campaign! Impactful school climate action projects
Date: Oct 20th, 7-8pm
Target Audience: Secondary Geography, Art, CSPE
Delivered by: Alex Whyatt, Global Action Plan Ireland
Description:
Climate action projects are becoming a fixture in Irish schools. These may be required by practicals or project work, be driven by students interests and passions, or be part of a Green Schools flag. A poster campaign or presentation can be a good way to ‘tick the boxes’ - but how can we go further? How can project work contribute to effective climate action that students genuinely learn from? In this session we ask what makes impactful climate action, and seek to understand the learning that can occur when groups work together for change. We apply this to real-life climate action projects in Irish secondary schools and ask what made them powerful. Finally, we examine this year’s examination projects and suggest ways to power up your school-based action projects. This CPD session is ideal for teachers of subjects with a practical component (CSPE, Geography, Art, etc.) as well as those responsible for extra-curricular activities (Green Schools committees, clubs, etc.).
Title: Primary Climate and Nature Summit
Date: Oct 25th, 4.30-5.30
Target Audience: Primary
Delivered by: The Irish Schools Sustainability Network
Description:
This session will bring you through the schedule for the Primary Climate and Nature Summit. Our aim is to support teachers in planning and delivering an integrated unit on Irish Native Woodlands. Additional resources and ideas will be presented and shared to enable you to get the most out of each of the video lessons.
Title: The ISSN & the Secondary Climate and Nature Summit
Date: Oct 25th, 7.00-7.40
Target Audience: Secondary
Delivered by: The Irish Schools Sustainability Network
Description:
This session will bring you through the schedule for the Secondary Climate and Nature Summit. Our aim is to answer any questions you may have to ensure you and your students get the most out of the week. We’ll also point you in the direction of resources that you can use after the summit to support you in taking climate and ecological action. We’ll be discussing the work of the ISSN and how you and your school can get involved.
Title: Degrowth and Future Economies
Date: Oct 27th, 7-8
Delivered by: Irene Ní Shúilleabháin, Global Action Plan Ireland
Target Audience: Secondary Business Studies, Economics, Geography,
Description:
Climate change, inequality, ecological collapse - can't we do things differently? This workshop examines the role that our economic model has played in the climate and biodiversity crisis. It takes a GCE approach, examining societal parameters at a global level, within the context of a globalised economy. We will investigate how a preoccupation with economic growth and metrics such as GDP (Gross Domestic Product) amongst the world’s most powerful countries has impacted upon environmental and human well-being. We will critically explore the concept of Degrowth, an economic philosophy that is quickly gaining main-stream attention, and how this model could afford humanity a different approach to the future. We will examine what a 21st century economy could look like, and how this can be imagined and applied by students within and outside the classroom. The content and activities included in this workshop are particularly useful for teachers of subjects that include a research component, and more generally, for teachers of Economics, Business, C.S.P.E, Geography, Politics and Society, and Climate Action and Sustainability (to be rolled-out in 2024).