Environmental education connects us to the world around us, teaching us about both natural and built environments. It raises awareness of issues impacting the environment upon which we all depend, as well as actions we can take to improve and sustain it. Learning about the environment encourages students to research, investigate, and make their own decisions about complex environmental issues. By developing and enhancing critical and creative thinking skills, these lessons help foster a new generation of informed consumers, workers, as well as policy or decision makers. Moreover, climate change education provides an important window into individual and societal responsibility. Winchester not only has an interest in teaching subjects that will prepare students for careers and earn them good test scores, but to teach them to be mindful citizens. Teaching climate change means teaching topics like environmental stewardship and collective responsibility — showing students that they and those around them have a responsibility to something larger than themselves.
In an increasingly interconnected world, educators, employers and communities all want to see students developing as global citizens; young people that are internationally-aware. This is why Winchester has been focusing on enhancing students' 'Global Awareness' this week during PSHCEE lessons. Pupils have been asked to present their own company in groups as we strongly believe that when learners can see the results of applying their knowledge and skills into actual products – which could be sold or somehow used to create an income – their learning immediately becomes more valuable. |
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