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- ItemMetadata onlyClimate Change Education for Teachers(2024) Commonwealth of Learning (COL)The urgency of climate change, marked by human-driven global warming, rising sea levels, and extreme weather, calls for widespread educational reform. The 2022 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report underscores the critical need for climate change education that enables teachers, students, and communities to understand and address these impacts. Globally, teachers are tasked with embedding climate knowledge and actionable insights into curricula, yet often lack sufficient resources and support. Innovative, localised approaches are essential, allowing teachers to connect climate impacts with students’ own communities and foster individual responsibility. Consequently, the Commonwealth of Learning proposes a six-course diploma programme on climate change education for teachers, with modules at various stages of completion. Grounded in constructivist pedagogy, this programme builds capacities for pre- and in-service teachers. Licensed under Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike, it aims to nurture a community-oriented perspective that emphasises ecological justice and community resilience. Through this approach, teachers and students can engage meaningfully in climate action, transforming awareness into impactful, community-driven responses. The programme can be adapted to suit different institutional contexts.
- ItemOpen AccessClimate Change and Its Impacts: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Climate Justice(2024) Commonwealth of Learning (COL)The course will focus on strategies for adapting to climate change’s impacts, mitigating its consequences, and addressing climate justice issues. Teacher candidates will engage in discussions about various approaches to climate resilience and explore the ethical dimensions of climate change. By examining real-world examples, participants will gain insights into effective adaptation and mitigation practices, preparing them to promote climate justice in their local areas.
- ItemOpen AccessInclusive Community Engagement for Climate Change Action(2024) Commonwealth of Learning (COL)This course is designed to help teachers and educators explain the importance of taking action on climate change and equip them with the tools to identify and plan effective climate action. Special emphasis is placed on fostering inclusive community engagement, particularly in communities that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Participants critically analyse the factors that enable inclusive community engagement, learn the essential steps for engaging diverse communities in climate action, and develop tailored strategies for climate change initiatives. The course includes case studies focused on community engagement for climate action within local contexts.
- ItemOpen AccessOpen Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT)(2012) Adeyanju , Thomas K; Maisamari , Musa; Ndege, Speranza M; Sanyal, Mukti; Muganda, Cornelia; Olaofe, Isaac; Boruah, PadminiOpen Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) is intended to support the classroom activities of teachers of junior secondary schools (JSS). The aims of ORELT are to: Provide a bank of ‘open content’ multi-media resources in on-line and traditional text formats that will support school-based education and training for teachers in junior secondary schools; Provide ‘open content’ support resources for teacher educators who prepare teachers for junior secondary schools. To achieve these aims a Situation analysis of English language teaching (ELT) in selected Commonwealth nations was undertaken to determine strengths, gaps and challenges of teaching English in Africa and Asia. This formed the basis for developing appropriate materials that address the needs and realities of JSS teachers. The six modules are:
- Module 1: Better Listening
- Module 2: Speaking for Better Communication
- Module 3: Success in Reading
- Module 4: Effective Writing
- Module 5: Language through Literature
- Module 6: Communicative Grammar
- ItemOpen AccessPreparing Distance Learning Materials(2024-05) Mishra, SanjayaThis short course will introduce you to the basic aspects of developing teaching and learning materials for distance and online learning. This course focuses primarily on text-based print and online materials. While it is aimed at teachers in distance teaching institutions, it will also be a useful starting point for anyone who is interested in developing an online course. If you put what you learn into action, you will be able to develop materials that students can use for self-directed learning. The approximate time to complete this course is about 135 minutes. But you will also need another 20–30 hours to develop at least one lesson’s worth of distance learning (DL) materials. This is an asynchronous course, so it will not be possible to assess your lesson quality. We recommend that you ask your peers and people who are likely to participate in the course/unit for feedback that you can use to improve your material.