Monthly Archives: July 2024

Environmental Education: Learning and Acting for a Better Future  –  Florence (Italy)15 - 20 July 2024 Environmental courses are becoming ever more popular compared to a few years ago when they were just not to be found. It obviously brings its own hype into context meaning that almost every course provider started offering these courses with a very diverse quality. I chose this Erasmus course because I had a positive previous experience with the Florence based Europass Teacher Academy offering similar training options.I have to stress that the lessons were very well structured ( which is not always the case) and [...]

’There is no Planet B’, Training course – Porto (Portugal) – 14-19 July, 2024 This course was designed to introduce climate change education for sustainable development across the curriculum and multiple subjects. We all need to understand how and what to teach about the complex forces driving climate change and its impacts on culture, safety, and the well-being of our lives and the ones to come (future generations). Teachers have an essential role in advancing a whole-school response to climate change. That includes addressing climate and sustainability across the curriculum, building upon the participatory learning approaches called for by education for [...]

“CODING AND ROBOTICS MADE EASY” Malta, July 8-13. 2024 On June 13 Nikolaus Conrad, a professional digital skills trainer, edtech consultant, and teacher trainer at Europass Teacher Academy, sent us an email regarding the road map of the Erasmus course “CODING AND ROBOTICS MADE EASY”. Before traveling to Malta, I knew the schedule for the course, the exact location, and how to reach there from the MLA airport. Also, he informed us that we need our laptops to be used during the course. On the first day of the course, there was an introduction to coding and robotics, [...]