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Thursday, 7 February 2019

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Teaching Workable Solutions for Environmental Issues (Speyer)

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Teacher seminar organized by the U.S. Consulate Frankfurt in cooperation with the Pädagogische Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz

Title: Teaching Workable Solutions for Environmental Issues (19-007)

  Speyer – Thursday, February 7 until Friday, February 8 | 10:00-16:45 | 09:00-15:30

  Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz, Butenschönstraße 2, 67346 Speyer

  Contact: Anna Schoenbach, Pädagogisches Landesinstitut Rheinland-Pfalz, anna.schoenbach@pl.rlp.de

Registration: evewa.bildung-rp.de (PL-Nr. 19132E7001)

Für Lehrkräfte im rheinland-pfälzischen Schuldienst werden Reisekosten und Übernachtung auf Antrag übernommen. Nach Maßgabe freier Plätze können Lehrkräfte aus anderen Bundesländern teilnehmen.

 

Content:Climate phenomena such as droughts, floods, and storms currently take on more dramatic dimensions across the States and in Europe. The latest scientific findings reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clearly demonstrate that the negative impacts of climate change are increasingly posing a serious risk to ecosystems, food production and the attainment of sustainable development. How to deal with these issues is not only a technical or economic question but has very much become a divisive cultural issue, particularly in the United States. And yet, there are emerging efforts to heal these divisions. We will discuss these problems and workable solutions on the first conference day.

On the second day, you will learn how you and your school can get involved in the intercultural blended-learning platform project “Going Green – Education for Sustainability”. In addition to offering the regular extended curriculum again in the current and next school years, we are featuring a project week addressing renewable energies from a science and cultural studies perspective.

We cordially invite you to this teacher training conference for discussing current issues of climate protection and exploring the resources provided by “Going Green – Education for Sustainability”. (From the website of the Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.)

 

Program:

Thursday, February 7, 2019

10:00 - Welcome

10:15 - Climate Change Meets the Classroom (Nils Petermann, Citizens Climate Lobby, Karlsruhe)

12:30 - Lunch

13:30 - Religion & the Environment – The Evangelical Environmental Movement in the U.S. (Melanie Gish, Heidelberg Center for American Studies)

15:45 - Engagiert vor Ort – Wie kann ich andere für mein Umweltanliegen begeistern? (Thomas Dannenmann, Deutsches Komitee für den Earth Day International)

16:45 - End of the first seminar day

 

Friday, February 8, 2019

9:00 - Going Green – Education for Sustainability in the EFL and STEM Classrooms (Joannis Kaliampos, Leuphana University Lüneburg

13:00 - Lunch

13:45 - Workshop for English Teachers: Planning Your Teaching Sequence on Environment (Anna Schönbach, Pädagogisches Landesinstitut)

15:30 - End of seminar

(The program flyer can be downloaded here.)