Conferences for Geography Teachers
1. Title: Teaching Living Geography in Your Classroom (16-17 March 2010 or 18-19 March 2010)
Venue: NIE Yunnan Campus
Costs: $168.30 for MOE Teachers
Description
NIE will be organising a workshop "Teaching Living Geography in Your Classroom" in March 2010. The 2-day workshop will be conducted by Dr Clare Brooks from the Institute of Education, University of London. Deadline for application is on 20 November 2009. For further details, please refer to attached document below.
Teaching Living Geography in your classroom v2.pdf (80,5 kB)
2. Title: Inspiring Climate Education (12-14 October 2009)
Venue: Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Description
An international teachers' conference on "Inspiring Climate Education", sponsored by the Danish Ministry of Education, will take place in Copenhangen, Denmark from 12-14 October 2009. For further details, please refer to information provided below or visit www.ice2009.org.
International Teachers’ Conference on Teaching Current Climate Change in Secondary Education
Danish Science Communication sponsored by the Danish Ministry of Education welcomes you to ICE09, where you can participate in the exciting challenge of developing new methods of teaching climate change.
Date: October 12 through 14, 2009
Venue: Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
Homepage www.ice2009.org
Background
The conference aims at promoting:
Interdisciplinary teaching
Cooperation between educational institutions and private enterprises
Incorporating climate change into existing curriculum
Students and teachers to take action
Objectives
The objectives of the conference are:
To attract attention on teaching current climate change
To collect, qualify and disseminate teaching materials via www.cop15.dk
To exchange, inspire and develop best practice
To contribute to international cooperation and network
Participants
The conference will attract around 200 international participants and is open to/invites lower and upper secondary school teachers, education researchers, civil servants and government officials, lecturers from teacher training colleges and universities with experience or interest in teaching climate change.
Principles for the conference
The programme will involve a combination of presentations from keynote speakers followed by participatory workshops. During the workshops, participants will reflect on their own practice, exchange ideas and together develop ideas on questions/challenges/issues relevant for teaching climate change.
Contact
For further information and possible registration please visit: www.ice2009.org where the first announcement is also available for download.The conference secretariat is at your disposal at: congress@bdp.dk Phone: +453345455.
