Reflection Box 2 Teaching for Biodiversity 1.Think about your teaching practice and subjects you teach. Learning content: Think about the key issues in your discipline and how they might be linked with biodiversity. Pedagogy and learning environments: Think about the teaching methodologies that you use and the learning environments that you create for your students. Are they teacher-or student-centered? Do they promote participation and collaboration? Do you create spaces for students to explore, think critically and act towards the sustainability of biodiversity? Learning outcomes: Think about the skills (not knowledge) that your students develop throughout their learning journey. Do students develop skills such as critical and systemic thinking, futures thinking and collaborative decision-making? Societal transformation: Think about how your teaching can contribute to social change. Do you provide opportunities for students to envision change, transform themselves, the school and their local communities? Fig.2 Reflection Box 2 Teaching for Biodiversity On the other hand, the module also exposes teachers to arrange of pedagogical approaches and strategies that they can use in their own schools. These include participatory and student-centered teaching and learning methods as well as transformative, action, values and experiential learning, needed to reorient the curriculum experience towards sustainable development. An excerpt from the program on biodiversity is given in Figure 3. Teachers will be given various websites sources on biodiversity that consist of concepts, benefits and conservation measures. Various activities involving five key pedagogical principles as mentioned above will be carried out in the workshop such as group dialogue or discussion, problem trees, ranking activities, games, and so on. Proceedings of the International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the 173 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Proceedings of International Conference on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for the Sustainable Development Goals : Policy and Practice 27-29 June 2016 at the Sirindhorn International Environmental Park, Cha-am, Phetchaburi, Thailand
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