Description
The project aims to find answers to the question of how to involve sustainability in all subjects in upper secondary school. The subjects in this project are the ones usually not involved in sustainability, i.e.; Languages and Social Studies. The project target group are teachers of participating schools, which teach mother tongue and Literature, History, Human Studies and English. The planned activities include a project meeting in Iceland; meeting in Estonia (experts and teachers); camp for teachers in the south of Estonia (natural environment); final meeting in Iceland with stakeholders (local authorities, members of school council). The meetings are milestones of the project which help to exchange the materials, ideas and best practices as well as work out new supportive materials for teachers together in an international team. We think that trying to apply sustainability to the above-mentioned subjects will be a challenging task, and that it will promote creative thinking among the teachers resulting in interesting projects. Expected outcomes are study materials for teachers, further projects, guidelines and worksheets for other teachers to use.
Summary of project results
The project team aimed to find answers to the question of how to involve sustainability in all subjects in upper secondary school. The subjects in this particular project were the ones usually not involved in learning about sustainability: Languages and Social Studies. The project target group were teachers of participating schools, which teach mother tongue and literature, history, human studies and English. The project activities included a project meeting in Iceland (teachers); meeting in Estonia (experts and teachers); camp for teachers in the south of Estonia (natural environment); final meeting in Iceland with stakeholders (local authorities, members of school council). The meetings were milestones of the project which helped exchange the materials, ideas and best practices as well as work out new supportive materials for teachers together in an international team. The project outcomes are study materials for teachers, website, further projects, guidelines and worksheets for other teachers to use -
https://makeanewplanet.wordpress.com/. The materials are available in English, Estonian, Russian and Icelandic. Main outcomes: 1. Materials on teaching sustainability in language subjects and social studies (topics, ideas, methods, approaches, worksheets, study guides and other guidelines): 2. Website with all the materials developed during the
https://makeanewplanet.wordpress.com/ 3. Network of cooperation between teachers of three schools
Summary of bilateral results
The project allowed project teams to work together in tight cooperation. In future the partnes hope to arrange exchange programmes for students, develop new materials, apply for staff mobilities for teaching in a partner school. The project website and book were results of teachers’ synergy, because they shared the responsibilities themselves, created new ideas altogether, were inspired and involved. Partners learnt about the educational systems in both countries, learnt from each other. They found out that all partners had their strengths which could be implemented in other schools. The students in Estonia got information about Iceland, education and labour market there, people and their traditions. It was valuable to test the materials developed by the teachers of one country in the other and vice versa.