BESA CORNER


This month, in our ongoing feature highlighting the work of members of the UK education suppliers’ trade body BESA, we hear from FIELDWORK EDUCATION.


Fieldwork Education: teaching our children the importance of living in a sustainable world


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s we venture into the new year it’s imperative that last year’s awareness surrounding climate change is not forgotten. Looking ahead into 2022, we must continue to bring forth the urgency surrounding this topic and develop a culture of caring for the environment amongst our younger learners. Although it is an important aspect of learning for children, educators are faced with pressure in amongst subject packed curriculum’s and teaching in a way that ensures students receive top grades in exam settings. The focus, however, must remain on providing learning that is delivered in a creative and comprehensive form.


A recent accomplishment from one of our International Primary Curriculum schools has sparked an exciting journey into the world of implementing climate change actions both in the classroom and outside.


Heritage International School in Moldova won the Climate Action Project’s School of Excellence award in November 2021 for exploring the causes and effects of climate change and helping their students understand what steps we can all take to create climate solutions. In the voice of Tatiana Popa, Head of Global Education, Hybrid Learning Coordinator, teacher trainer, Global Teacher Award 2021 winner and Inga Corlateanu, IPC Coordinator and English teacher, hear about their climate journey using the International Primary Curriculum to facilitate global learning.


Delivering the best opportunities Heritage International School is an institution where educational programmes get beautifully intertwined to deliver the best opportunities to our students. We aim to develop the whole child here that will become a responsible citizen of the world, have a global view and will thrive in a diverse, colourful, and sustainable world.


Bringing the Climate Action Project and IPC together


Last year we saw a presentation on the Climate Action Project, and we realized that it fit like a glove, and we would have the chance to participate with other schools from more than 140 countries, an impressive number. This shows that climate change is a global problem, and we must all come together to solve it. The learning objectives of the IPC and those of the Climate Action Project are very similar and aim at the same purpose: to raise awareness of the global problem, bring into school’s real-life situations and make students identify solutions. Therefore, there was no difficulty in integrating the proposed activities during the project into our classes.


The students found identifying the causes and effects of climate change much more interesting and surprising which meant it created higher impact on their awareness, because they were getting acquainted with the answers given by children from all around the world. They were able to see that the opinions, definitions, effects, and solutions are similar, and they complement each other no matter where you are from.


uhttps://fieldworkeducation.com/news/2021/heritage-international-school-wins-the-school-of-excellence-award 14 www.education-today.co.uk January 2022


Developing creative learning skills As teachers we help students understand the world in which they live, grow, and develop as personalities. We cannot detach kids from what is happening around us and them, just because they are too young, as these are issues that they will also one day face. We must teach children to be aware that what happens to the climate is a common problem of all mankind, regardless of age, nationality, religion, etc.


Winning the Climate Action Project School of Excellence award


After two years of hard work in the Climate Action Project, the Heritage community was thrilled to announce that our School was selected among 250 schools in the entire world to receive the title of Climate Action Project School of Excellence. With 2.7 million students and teachers in the project, our hard work paid off and our commitment to make the world a better place for everyone continues.


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