A gathering of the ANGEL SIG on Teacher Education.

Theme: S-Cool-Links: Uniting teachers for climate action. With Asmita Rajaram - VVOB (Belgium)

ANGEL MeeTEing Point is a new series of online gatherings of ANGEL's Special Interest Group on Teacher Education, designed to bring the community together to discuss pertinent issues for all those with an interest in Teacher Education on topics relating to Global Education & Learning. 

This second such meeting (following one in January) will be held online on the 14 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 (GMT), on the theme: S-Cool-Links: Uniting teachers for climate action.

Description of the session

VVOB – education for development (Belgium) founded the S-Cool-Links platform to connect teachers worldwide who wish to take climate education to their classrooms. The platform hosts a global teacher community of practice and aims to achieve teacher professional development in the area of climate change education, mainly through peer learning and project-based learning. This global exchange is based on the strong belief that any response to a global crisis requires global perspectives to be taken into account. Allowing teachers from different parts of the world to bring in their local ideas, experiences and indigenous knowledge, S-Cool-Links enables them to enrich their collaborative school climate projects even more.

VVOB is a non-profit organisation founded in 1982 which aims to achieve quality education through capacity development of education actors, governmental or otherwise, and by connecting education stakeholders across borders.

Aims

With this presentation we aim to reach more teachers internationally (through organizations active in the field) and potential international synergy partners.

Presenter

Asmita Rajaram - VVOB (Belgium)

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Asmita Rajaram has been with VVOB since 2017. First in Suriname, where she closely worked with school principals in professional learning communities and since 2019 in Brussels, where she currently holds the position of Education Advisor for the SchoolLinks/S-Cool-Links program. With a degree in Education and Research for Sustainable Development and experience in global citizenship education and teacher support, she aims to work closely with teachers and school leaders from around the world to advance global citizenship education and climate change education in particular, through global connections