CREAT YOUR OWN ECO-SCHOOLS
This course named as 'Creat Your Own Eco-School' is a training course for pre-school, primary and secondary schools teachers to provide environmental awareness, environmental management and sustainable development education for their students. Students will learn about environmental issues and take an active role in raising awareness of their families, local governments and NGOs on environmental issues in schools with the participatory approach. Eco-schools teachers goint to beyond teaching of classroom teachers, will play a role in raising environmental awareness in other parts of the society. The most important and integrative factor is student participation again. Our students are valuable for the future and only thing that we can treasure them is a clean and green Earth. The course will help teachers to teach students the habits they will use throughout their lifetime and influence their achievement, as far as the environment is concerned. Learning Outcomes All the participants will: * Create and develops a new identity, * Build a participatory structure for your students to attend group work, * Develop your students' problem-solving, and discussion skills, * Use of initiative, ability to make decisions, * Consumption patterns change, wastefulness is prevented, * Conservation of natural resources develops consciousness. * Inspire and empowers students * Create leaders for change in their communities * Develop responsible attitudes and commitment * Lead to increased levels of confidence and motivation * Increase your students' participation in environmental actions * Improve your students' skills and knowledge in all subjects * Improve your students' mental and physical well-being Objectives of the Courses * Understanding environmental awareness, environmental management and sustainable development education, * Teaching the students the habits they will use throughout their lifetime, * Getting information about world, environment and the resources, * Relating between garbage and recyclable materials * Analyzing steps of the recycling system * Creating environmental list about any space for planting or any space for playing * Designing creative tasks * Preparing an action plan * Investigating problems about environment Methodology * Focusing on practical and skills-based interactive learning * Creating immediate feedbacks * Discussing on best practices * Working on hands-on activities * Encouraging tasks and activities for students to create new idea about environmental education * Brainstorming * Working in groups cooperativel