CCCCC Conducts Teacher Training Workshop For Climate Change Education

(CCCCC Press Release) – The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) has relaunched its 1.5˚ to Stay Alive – An Educational Initiative’ with a Teachers’ Training workshop held at its offices in Belmopan, 20-21 August, 2018.

This training workshop forms part of the Centre’s education and outreach work to embed climate change in the Region’s education sector. The four-unit curriculum (The Warming Climate, Sea Level Rise, Pine Forest and Social Impacts of Global Warming), includes teaching and learning activities and a range of supporting materials such as worksheets, photographs, posters, suggestions for power point presentations, and videos.

Teachers conducted experiments that simulated some of the impacts of climate change using safe household items.

Through this means of engagement, they examined ways in which climate change can be incorporated in their syllabus, with the intent to:

• Increase sensitisation and awareness of climate change impacts and community vulnerability;
• Heighten ability to link personal actions to the broader climate change discussion;
• Increase capacity to conduct vulnerability assessments of communities; and
• Identify practical adaptation measures to reduce vulnerability.

The training workshop emphasised the need to educate children to build climate resilience through sustainable practices and development by utilising new-aged climate-smart technology and alternative energy sources.

Educators who completed the Training Workshop were provided with teaching materials, manuals and workbooks and will be awarded a certificate for eight Professional Development hours towards their licence by the Teacher Education & Development Services (TEDS) through the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture.

Attendees included teachers from the following schools:

Belmopan Comprehensive School
Belmopan Methodist High School
El Shaddai S.D.A Primary School
United Evergreen Primary School
Our Lady of Guadalupe Primary School
Ann’s Anglican
Martin’s Government School
Garden City Primary School
The Shepherd’s Academy
Kuxlin Ha Government School
Representative from the Ministry of Human Development for Sacred Heart R.C. School
Santa Elena Primary School and
St. Ignatius High School

The Centre expects to roll-out the programme in schools across the Region in 2019.