Intended End User: Teacher, School Leader
Age Group: Lower Primary; Upper Primary; Lower Secondary; Upper Secondary
School Curriculum: Social, Physical & Health Education; Social & Environment Science
Themes and Topics: School Leadership
Duration: Ongoing & variable.
Type of Resource: Guidelines & Notes
Keywords: Collaborative Leadership, Inclusion, Whole School Approach, Open Schooling, Student-Centred Teaching Methods
Languages: English
Description
The resource is a chapter that is part of a training on engaging stakeholders, with a focus on parents and students within the context of a project on sustainability practices. The chapter includes an introduction, 4 activities and further reading ideas.
The train the trainer manual is aimed at anybody who would train people in engaging diverse groups of student, parents, and community member in governance structures, including school governance. It might be school leaders, but also trainers of school leaders.
The training addresses leadership and inclusion practices that lay the groundworks for including all educational actors in developing sustainability goals. The activities go into parental and community engagement, child participation, communication in diverse groups, the whole school approach and open schooling, universal design and student-centred teaching methods, shared leadership at different governance levels and advocacy.
How to use this resource
The train the trainer manual is aimed at anybody who would train people in engaging diverse groups of student, parents, and community member in governance structures, including school governance. It might be school leaders, but also trainers of school leaders.
The training addresses leadership and inclusion practices that lay the groundworks for including all educational actors in developing sustainability goals. The activities go into parental and community engagement, child participation, communication in diverse groups, the whole school approach and open schooling, universal design and student-centred teaching methods, shared leadership at different governance levels and advocacy.
The resources
BioBeo Train the Trainer Manual (PDF):
The BioBeo website also contains additional resources that may be of interest and benefit.
Learning Outcomes (Teachers)
- Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote student Sustainability Citizenship
- Reflect on practice and examine national curricula to identify opportunities to promote Sustainability Citizenship in interdisciplinary ways and engage with external stakeholders.
Learning Outcomes (Leadership)
- Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote Sustainability Citizenship within their schools and communities.
- Examine their own national/regional curricula, educational policies, programmes and external stakeholders to identify opportunities to promote Sustainability Citizenship in their schools and communities.
Green Competencies
- Embodying Sustainable Values: Supporting Fairness
- Embracing Complexity in Sustainability: Systems Thinking; Critical Thinking
- Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Adaptability; Exploratory Thinking
- Acting for Sustainability: Collective Action; Individual Initiative
Creative Commons
The BioBeo project was funding by the European Commission through Erasmus+. This funding provides that material produced by the project be categorised as Open Educational Resources, be easily accessible and retrievable without cost or limitations, and allow the public to use, reuse, adapt and share the resource.
