Workshops for Basic and Upper Secondary Education

Contents: 

My Learning Stream is a shared workshop for a school or education unit that maps out the unit’s current status of sustainability work and determines future steps. 

The workshop identifies the school’s strengths, development targets, and shared priorities. It is determined how sustainable future can be built in the unit’s everyday operations. 

Results: 

• Shared understanding of the unit’s current status 

• Identified development focus areas 

• Concrete steps and support for annual planning 

Target groups: 

The entire personnel of the unit (leadership, teachers, and other staff). Students and central partners may participate if possible. 

Length: 

1,5–3h 

Are you tired of sustainability education feeling like nothing but recycling? So are we. Building a sustainable future cannot only be taught in biology and geography classes anymore. Sustainable citizenship requires competence that combines wellbeing, human-nature relationships, technology, democracy skills, future orientation, and business education. 

Content: 

The workshop discusses how sustainable future competence can be built through different school subjects, wide-ranging capability, and the school’s individual focus areas. 

Choose one of the three perspectives: 

1. Role of different subjects and cooperation in building sustainability competence 

The goal is that teachers of different subjects recognize their role in building sustainability understanding and realize how sustainability competence can be reinforced in school. The workshop discusses practical measures to highlight competence in the school and in teaching (such as multifaceted learning modules, projects, and learning environments). 

2. Connecting sustainability perspectives to the school’s focus areas and themes 

The workshop discusses how sustainability competence can be reinforced as part of the school’s current focus areas and development work (such as STEAM, global education, business education, wellbeing, and internationality). 

3. Reinforcing Learning Stream themes in teaching 

The workshop focuses on one Learning Stream theme and its pedagogic possibilities in different subjects and the school. Possible themes are reinforcing human-nature relationships, climate competence, and circular economy competence. The focus can also be, for example, Agenda2030 goals or connecting sustainability and wellbeing. 

Target groups: 

Teachers and leadership based on the chosen perspective 

Length: 

1–2h 

Content: 

How to make everybody’s voices heard and walk towards sustainable future together? 

This equal dialogue, based on the Timeout principles, tackles challenging environmental themes. The Timeout dialogue enables a deeper understanding of a chosen theme. The training consists of an introduction and shared dialogue. The three-hour session ends with a solution-oriented section that turns the discussed themes into concrete actions. 

Target groups: 

The entire personnel of the unit (leadership, teachers, and other staff). Students and central partners may participate if possible. 

Length: 

2–3h

How to educate worldly and constructive citizens when the world’s rapid change can be felt at schools? 

Human rights, peace, and global education are not separate themes, but general tasks of all schools. Future competence is built on equality, interaction, cultural understanding, and responsibility in our shared world. 

Content: 

The workshop discusses how global responsibility, human rights, and equal future competence can be built through different subjects, wide-ranging competence, and the school’s individual focus areas.  

Choose one option: 

1. The role of different subjects and cooperation in building global competence 

The goal is that teachers of different subjects recognize their role in building human rights, peace, internationality, and equality competence, as well as what kind of responsible and worldly citizenship should be reinforced in schools. The workshop considers concrete measures for highlighting competence in the school and teaching (such as multifaceted learning modules, STEAM projects, and external cooperation networks). Possible focus areas can be human rights and peace education, global education and internationality, anti-racist pedagogics, cultural diversity, media-criticism, and dialogue and encounter skills. 

2. Global perspective in the school’s focus areas and themes 

The workshop considers how human rights, peace, and global education can be reinforced as part of the school’s current focus areas and development work. The goal is to recognize the school’s strengths and build measures around them that support equal, participatory, and globally responsible culture. Possible focus areas can be anti-racism work, reinforcing participation, cross-cultural interaction, building sustainable peace, democracy skills, or global phenomena from the perspective of the students’ lives and wellbeing.  

Target groups: 

The entire personnel of the unit (leadership, teachers, and other staff). 

Length: 

1–3h 

Content: 

How does nature exposure increase our health and wellbeing? How to bring nature into our working lives? 

The workshop offers information about the nature’s health and wellbeing benefits and concrete tips for increasing nature exposure in the unit: for individual workers and the entire community. The workshop includes research-based scientific information and concrete tools for nature-oriented work. 

Target groups: 

The entire personnel of the unit (leadership, teachers, and other staff). 

Length: 

1–3h