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.
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This is a train the trainer manual.
Learning Outcomes
Leadership LO B: Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote Sustainability Citizenship within their schools and communities.
Teacher LO B: Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote student Sustainability Citizenship.
Leadership LO C: Examine their own national/regional curricula, educational policies, programmes and external stakeholders to identify opportunities to promote Sustainability Citizenship in their schools and communities.
Teacher LO C: Reflect on practice and examine national curricula to identify opportunities to promote Sustainability Citizenship in interdisciplinary ways and engage with external stakeholders.
