BRINGING THE STEM CURRICULUM TO LIFE: LEARNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD

 

This new professional learning programme, developed by Learning for Sustainability Scotland in partnership with Dumfries & Galloway Council and North Ayrshire Council, is part of Education Scotland’s STEM professional learning programme for 2022-23.

 

Join us on an interactive, collaborative learning journey that will help you to plan for, weave together and embed Learning for Sustainability (LfS) across your everyday STEM practice; inspiring real-life, relevant, meaningful and transformative learning about the big issues that shape our world.

Aligned with Scotland’s education priorities, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the National Model for Professional Learning, this course will support you to:

Critically reflect on the values, knowledge, skills and abilities required of teachers and learners to enable them to:

• Consider real-world local and global challenges in the context of LfS and the STEM curriculum
• Participate successfully and contribute to a fair and green society by taking meaningful action appropriate and relevant to their context

Develop confidence in teacher leadership for STEM and LfS and engage in peer learning

Collaborate with others to reflect on and evaluate your own and your students’ learning and plan for future development

Develop and apply practical activities in your setting and reflect on the impact on self, learners and your wider learning community.

This course is open to senior leadership teams, teachers, and early years practitioners from local authority-funded 3-18 yrs settings across Dumfries & Galloway and North Ayrshire. We are particularly keen to encourage interdisciplinary, whole-setting, cross-sectoral and inter-authority collaboration and networking.

Programme outline

31 October: Module 1 Introduction to Learning for Sustainability in STEM

14 November: Module 2 Learning for the 21st century: skills, values, knowledge and agency

28 November: Module 3 ‘Real-life’ teaching: engaging STEM learners in meaningful, contextualised learning

12 December: Module 4 Reflection and collaboration: looking to the future

Class-based STEM learning activities can be undertaken in the New Year or at any time through the course. Participants will have until the end of February 2023 to complete the course.

How will the course be delivered?

• Starting on 31 October, this online course will contain four modules.
• Hosted on GLOW Teams, the course will offer a blended mix of self-led and facilitated online learning that you will be able to access at a time that is convenient to you.
• Regular, optional ‘real-time’ ‘drop-in’ sessions hosted by the course tutors are also included.
• Participants will be supported to develop, deliver, evaluate, share and celebrate a real-life learning activity with their learners.
• Peer-led collaboration with other participants will be a key feature of the course.

 

The Eventbrite to enable signups to the STEM/LfS professional learning course is now live.