Hello everyone, I'm Felipe Alarcón, physical educator, leader of Wildfire Functional Training, group aiming and looking for Adaptation and Mitigation about Climate Change. The premises are Sustainability, Innovation and Circular Models. Our action areas are: Education, Intervention, Prevention and Emergency Response. Finally our action groups are: Communities, Local Administrations and Responder Groups.
This opportunity I want to introduce to you a methodology transversalizing the global issues about climate change and the respective school curricular contents starting in science, but opening this transversality to other subjects. The current problematic in Chile (and the most of the countries in Latin American region) is the absence of curricular spaces to experience with facts that our actions have a enormous impact if we are aiming together for the same goal, involving the total school community (staff, teachers, students and parents) and understanding education as it is, a constant and permanent process that needs to be actualized everyday.
Finally it is imperative to use a common language, this one, we can find it in different worldwide projects from United Nations for example, but also, it is very important to recognize the current issues in the respective countries, so also, this needs to be decoded in line with the national curriculums and the respective subject plans (the most of them are considering these climate issues already, but in practice, the realization and impact is not significative enough).
Most schools in several countries have started educating students on climate change, but as it’s a relatively new addition to the curriculum, sometimes teachers (I feel I "belong to this group") don't have the right skills to teach sustainability and apply it in the classroom.
When schools want to impart climate change education, they must be sure that they are leading by example in terms of sustainability and being environmentally-friendly.
For example, the school where I work is teaching students how the Earth is suffering because of single-use plastic, then we MUST make efforts to curb plastic waste in the school cafeteria.
When we practice what we preach, the impact on young minds is stronger and they can see first-hand how they can actually make a difference in the environment.
Thank you so much for the material you've shared. It's really useful!!!
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