Exciting Climate Change CPD opportunities!
Manchester Development Education Project, in partnership with the
Science Learning Centre North West and Manchester Metropolitan
University, are developing and accrediting an exciting new CPD course on
climate change.
This course will:
• equip teachers with knowledge and skills to effectively teach about
climate change
• explore the evidence for climate change, analyse different viewpoints
and make links between science and society
• introduce methodologies suitable to investigating complex
controversial issues with pupils.
Participants will be introduced to a variety of practical activities
related to climate science, and will be encouraged to explore their use
as classroom experiments and demonstrations. Participants will also
explore the use of several participatory teaching and learning tools and
techniques in classrooms, particularly in relation to the discussion of
controversial issues. Opportunities will exist to link this study to
recent educational initiatives such as How Science Works and the revised
KS 3 curriculum.
The emphasis throughout the course will be the creative application of
knowledge learnt to classroom practice. Participants will be encouraged
to reflect on their own learning and performance at each stage, and to
engage in critical peer feedback. A detailed reading list will be
provided to enable deeper exploration of the issues.
All participants will be given the opportunity to register free of
charge for a masters level course at Manchester Metropolitan University
where you will be encouraged to develop, deliver and evaluate a project
or set of teaching resources related to climate change, and then to
submit this work for 20 masters level credits.
The dates for the next delivery of this course are 29 April (10am -
4pm), 19 May (1:30pm - 6:30pm) and 8 July (1:30pm - 6:30pm).
Participants who are unable to attend all workshops are welcome to
attend either day one or day two separately.
Funded by the Northwest Development Agency as part of the Northwest
Climate Change Action Plan; more information at
www.climatechangenorthwest.com .
For more information contact Jane Davies at [log in to unmask] .
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Anne Strachan
Programme Development Manager
Development Education Project (Charity No 1000590)
Laurel Cottage, DEP
799 Wilmslow Road
Didsbury
Manchester
M20 2RR
0161 921 8013
www.dep.org.uk
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