Joanna McFarlane, one of the very first Certified Climate Change Teachers in the world, when eduCCate Global launched The Climate Change Teacher Course in 2019. Joanna McFarlane is pictured here delivering a “live” Wild Planet Explorers Juniors Lesson to pupils.

The eduCCate Global Silver Award

Our Certified Carbon Literacy Teachers and staff now have the knowledge, skills, understanding and confidence to engage and empower our pupils. We’re building a climate change and sustainability curriculum across our school and we have begun working with other schools to ensure that climate literacy is no longer an ‘optional extra’ but an essential part of every school’s work.

Claire Robinson

Headteacher, Holme Grange School, Wokingham, UK

Duration: 6 months [max]

Investment: £800 / school

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SILVER AWARD

This is where the magic really starts to happen!

The eduCCate Global Silver Award Climate Change Teacher training is only for primary and secondary schools that have completed the Bronze Award. It is the next step on the bold journey to confidently deliver and develop climate mitigation, adaptation, transition, and transformation knowledge and skills throughout the school.

Your school will:

Accelerate carbon literacy learning across the school community
Begin to embed climate education in the ethos of the school and incorporate climate and carbon literacy throughout the curriculum
Enhance your basic knowledge of climate change and climate action from mitigation to adaptation

eduCCate Global’s teacher training builds capacity & confidence

Spend the next 6-months building up your climate and carbon literacy one step at a time.

Complete The Carbon Literacy Teacher Training and project that we’ve adapted for Climate Change Teachers and train all staff. The training and project are certified by the Carbon Literacy Project in partnership with eduCCate Global.

Work together to remap the school curriculum to include at least 30 hours climate and carbon literacy across the curriculum.

Introduce students to two new schemes of work.

Continue to have access to the teacher-adapted UN trainings and the scheme of work you chose in the Bronze Award. They will be found on the LMS in your Bronze Award folder.

We recommend that teachers continue to enhance their continuous professional development [CPD] by taking our teacher-adapted UN training, that they have not had the chance to do in the Bronze Award and share and learn more broadly across the school

Our simple 7-step process is each school’s success pathway

Activate the Silver Award Sustainability & Climate Literacy Leadership Team
Successfully complete the eduCCate Global teacher-adapted UN teacher training that your team members have not done in the Bronze Award
Complete the eduCCate Carbon Literacy Teacher Training and project to receive the Carbon Literacy certification
Remap the school curriculum to include up to 30 hours climate and carbon literacy across the curriculum
Build on student engagement and action. Have fun and generate impact!
Get your eduCCate Global Silver Award certificates and badges
Gain recognition for your school and teachers

The ideal* Primary/Elementary school leadership
structure builds on the Bronze Award Team

The ideal* Secondary/High school leadership
structure builds on the Bronze Award Team

eduCCate Global Silver Award teacher training

Carbon Literacy Teacher Training

Created by the Carbon Literacy Project and adapted for teachers by eduCCate Global, the training experience is grounded in science, experiential, and provides a basis for meaningful conversations with students about concrete actions we can take globally, nationally, locally and personally. To achieve certification, the Sustainability and Climate Literacy Leadership Team will complete a project proposal based on the needs and priorities of their school community that is assessed by the Carbon Literacy Project.

EnRoads Climate Workshop

eduCCate Global recommends the Sustainability and Climate Literacy Leadership Team take the EnRoads Climate Workshop as an extra after doing the one hour introduction as part of the Carbon Literacy Teacher Training. “The resulting experience is hopeful, scientifically-grounded, action-oriented, and eye-opening and will give teachers confidence when working with the climate change simulation.”

Silver Award Schools also retain access to the teacher-adapted UN courses, Identifying & Countering Misinformation about Climate Science, Climate Change Games for Critical Thinking and other content from the eduCCate Global Bronze Award.

In the Silver, every teacher in the school participates in one prescribed eduCCate Global teacher-adapted UN training course.

eduCCate Global Silver Award Schemes of Work

Silver Award Schools still have access to the schemes of work they chose in the Bronze Award. In addition, schools can choose one of three new schemes of work

The Carbon Footprint Buster Challenge* [ages 3 to 17],
a scheme of work with Lisa Pugh, Teacher and Founder of The Deer Wood Trust; or

The Carbon Footprint Buster Challenge (3 - 17)

Schools that choose this scheme of work must complete two challenges and can choose up to 12.

Net Zero Transitioneers: Transition Stories Juniors & Kids* [ages 3-11 and ages 12 - 15],
schemes of work with Professor Susan Krumdieck, Chair in Sustainable Energy Transition Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.

Net Zero Transitioneers: Transition Stories Juniors (3 to 11 years)

This 10 week scheme of work, presented by an age-appropriate peer, brings the basic concepts of transition to life through stories in a fun and engaging way.

Net Zero Transitioneers: Transition Stories Kids (12 to 15 Years)

This 10 week scheme of work, presented by an age-appropriate peer, brings the basic concepts of transition to life through stories in a fun and engaging way.