Nature Classrooms: Nature Learning Workshop for Teachers and Educators
Apply by 25th Oct 2023
Azim Premji University was established under the Azim Premji University Act 2010 of the Government of Karnataka. Azim Premji Foundation, the sponsoring body set up the University as a fully philanthropic and not-for-profit entity, with a clear social purpose. The University started in 2011 and since then have admitted over 2000 students.
Azim Premji University invites teachers and educators interested in nature learning to register for Nature Classrooms which will be held during the Forests of Life festival (02-14 November).
Nature Classrooms: Nature Learning Workshop for Teachers and Educators at Forests of Life festival
Nature Classrooms: Nature Learning Workshop for Teachers and Educators
DATES: 6th and 7th November
Time: 11am to 2pm (tentative)
Venue: Azim Premji University, Bangalore Campus,
Medium of communication: English
Overview: Through this 2-hour workshop we will share and exchange different teaching-learning tools and approaches that can be adopted by teachers and educators to deepen their own, and their student’s connections with nature through learning and exploring.
The session will include interactive discussions, activities and exercises to evoke wonder, awe, discovery, fascination and a connection with nature around us. Participants will be introduced to a nature-based social emotional learning approach – which encourages us to connect with nature by understanding our social and emotional relationship with everything around us and how it affects our actions.
About Nature Classrooms: At Nature Classrooms we aim to integrate contextually relevant elements of Nature Learning and Ecology with the existing EVS curriculum of primary schools across India. We primarily engage in capacity building for teachers and educators, develop nature education teaching-learning resources that are age-appropriate, locally-culturally and contextually relevant. We conduct research projects that contribute towards making Nature Learning meaningful for teachers and learners. Nature Classrooms is an initiative under the Education and Public Engagement Programme at the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF).
Who can register: Open to teachers interested in nature learning – they can be teaching any subject currently. Preferably primary and middle school teachers, though if high school teachers are interested they are welcome.
