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Climate action in language education

How will the course help you?

By the end of Climate action in language education, you’ll be able to:

  • integrate climate action into your language teaching practice

  • design lessons and activities that develop learners’ language skills alongside climate awareness and action 

  • support climate learning and action beyond the classroom through projects and real-world engagement.

How can you enrol on the course?

Register for a free TeachingEnglish account or log in to your account.

Enrol on this free course

What does the course include?

  • Self-study modules that you can access at any time before the course closes
  • A certificate of achievement on successful completion of the self-study modules
  • A free workbook with extra learning content and resources connected to the course contents
  • A dedicated Facebook community of course participants with up-to-date insight, resources and innovative teaching ideas for you to try out (Facebook account required)
  • Learning content related to our courses on Facebook and YouTube
  • Live events and recordings with course tutors and language teaching experts on Facebook and YouTube

What are the self-study modules?

Module 1 – Exploring climate action in your classroom

This module explores why climate action is important in language education and how it can be included in your teaching. You’ll look at common challenges teachers face and consider practical ways to address them in your own context.

Module 2 – Teaching climate action

This module explores how to include climate-related topics in language teaching. You’ll look at how to choose meaningful themes, use suitable resources, and design classroom activities that help learners develop language, think critically and communicate ideas about environmental issues.

Module 3 – Taking education for climate action outside class

This module explores ways of extending climate action beyond the classroom. You’ll look at different approaches to climate learning and action, plan activities that suit your teaching context, and create an action plan to support continued climate education in your practice.

Course reviews

What have other teachers said about how Climate action in language education helped them?

"I’ve started to include discussions about environmental issues in almost all of my language lessons because I’ve learned how to do this. My students are very interested and take part in the discussions and activities although they are young (7-11 years old)."

Course participant, North Macedonia (Republic of)

"My students and I went tree planting. We [collaborated with local organisations] for tree planting at our school. It was a fun outdoor event. We planted 300 wood trees and 300 fruit trees. Every student who planted a tree had the tree mapped to their name. It was interesting. This even gave them more enthusiasm to grow the trees. We wrote poems, essays, and students gave speeches. I really met the language goals."

Course participant, Uganda

"The course was full of new and informative ideas that widened my thoughts and opened my thoughts to a new strategies i can apply at my classroom since the climate crisis is a main part of their educational process"

Course participant, Jordan

Do you have more questions?

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I'm delighted to join this course. I'm Ane from Kiribati. I'm a teacher educator.

AT.

im very happy to join this course

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Really enjoying it hitherto Module-1
Many thanks

Hi Jatin

Thanks for the feedback, and we are glad you are enjoying the course so far!

Cath
TeachingEnglish team

It is very useful.

Such courses are very beneficial for us!I'm eager to participate all such courses.Hope I'll have opportunities to take part incoming courses.Thank you very much!

I am very happy to join this course

that's great to be with you

Thanks a lot.

Hi DrKoKoOoPhD,

You can enroll in our current courses by following the "how to register" instructions above.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

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Hi.
I've enrolled on this course and completed the 2 first modules about 2 days ago. But today when I click on my portfolio, I couldn't find any courses.
Can you help me with this? Thanks.

Hi Cindy Tran

I’m afraid that this course, like all our courses, only runs for a limited time, and the course has now finished. We are not able to reopen the course after the final course date. We expect to run the course again in 2023, so you will be able to complete the modules then. I would recommend subscribing to our newsletter to keep up to date with all our latest events, courses and resources. You can do that here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Hi, I can't see any icon to start the course. I managed to see "MY Portfolio" and courses but I am unable to see any button to start this course. Thank you.

Hi Nirmaladevi,

Unfortunately this course has now finished, so you won’t be able to register. We hope to offer it again some time next year, so please check back to our training page, or sign up for our newsletter, so you can keep up to date with all our latest courses and events. You can subscribe to the newsletter here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/subscribe-our-newsletter

Thanks,
Cath
TeachingEnglish Team

 

I have already registered.but I couldn't get the course

Hi Takele

Thanks for your message. Can you log out of your account, then log back in again. Click on the 'My Portfolio - My courses’ tab and then 'View all courses’. You should see that you are now enrolled on this course.

Please let us know if you have any other problems and enjoy the course!

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

I'm very happy to join this course

It will help us in our community and helping us to practice English language more and connect it with environmental pollution to protect it

I answered the first part of the course yesterday but I cannot find anything on My portfolio-My courses today. What can I do?

Hi Cyn

You can use the "Help" button on the course page to report this to the course administrators.

Hope this gets resolved soon,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

I answered the first part of the course yesterday but I cannot find anything on My portfolio-My courses today. What can I do?

Hi Randa

Have you tried logging out and logging back in again? If you can access the courses homepage but cannot see your progress, please use the "Help" button on the courses page to report this issue.

Hope that helps,
Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

me too

Same here, did you find a solution?

Hi openshoresenglish

As above - are you able to access the courses homepage? If so, use the "help" button to report this issue. If you are having trouble accessing the courses homepage (through "My Portfolio") then please log out and log back in to your TeachingEnglish account and that should resolve the issue.

Thanks,
Cath
TeachingEnglish Team

Thanks for your hard efforts to give me the opportunity to improve my English, to know fun games I use at the class
Thanks to give me a lot of information about climate change

I would like to enroll the course about environmental language , I hope is not too late now, many thanks, your sincerely

Juan Oropeza

Hi Juan

Yes, you can still sign up! Just follow the instructions above to register for the course. It runs for four weeks.

Hope you enjoy the course,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Climate action in language is Very important

When I open the menu I can't find my portfolio or my courses

Hi Safaa El nagar

Have you enrolled in the course following the steps above?

If you have correctly enrolled, you should see the "My Portfolio" tab at the top of the page. If you click on that, you will see a drop-down menu which says "My Courses", which takes you to the courses page. If this doesn’t work, please log out and log back in again to be able to access your courses page.You can also check the Troubleshooting steps above.

Let us know if you are still having problems.

Thanks,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

 

Hello after it showed me that I can start my course on 15-11-22,I can't find the link to start the course,what is happening?

Hi Mansur2019

If you are enrolled in the course and have logged in to your TeachingEnglish account you should be able to access the courses homepage here: https://open.teachingenglish.org.uk/dashboard

The course content is now available for you to start the course.

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Where canI find my portoflio?

HI LailaHusseinIbrahim Youssef

Have you followed the instructions for enrolling on the course:

If you have done this, when you log in you should see the "My Portfolio" tab in the top left of the screen. Click on that, and you will see a drop-down menu "My Courses" - if you click on that you will be able to access the course page and start learning.

Hope that helps!

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Here is my account at the right corner of this page, but when I click on it I do not find my portfolio. I am not sure if I have already registered or not yet. Please tell me if I am already registered. If not show me how to do it. Thanks

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Hi staff，I can get access to the course and its materias. I tried the link provided.what should I do？

Hi changtong

Have you enrolled in the course following the instructions above:

If you are logged into the site, you should be able to access the courses homepage here:https://open.teachingenglish.org.uk/Home/MyProgrammes or by clicking on the "My Portfolio - My courses" tab at the top of the page. If you don’t see this, you will need to log out and log back into your account.

Hope that helps!

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

How l participants successfully complete all tasks .l don't find the tasks to answer

Hi Sandar Nu Nu Lin

As this is a self-access course, you can work through the activities at your own pace. You can click "Finish" after each activity to check your answers. 

Hope that helps,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

R/ admin ,here is not any option for confirmation of account how can avail this course

Hi ghulammustafa

Are you having problems creating your account? Or accessing the course page? 

Have you followed these steps above?

Can you let us know which stage you are having problems with?

Thanks,
Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

I can't access into the course

Hi MervatKotb

Have you enrolled in the course, or are you having trouble with that? Follow these instructions in order to register:

If you are already registered, then you need to make sure you are logged in to the site, click on "My Portfolio - My courses" at the top of the page, which will take you to the course homepage where you can access the course content.

Let us know if you are having additional problems,

Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

 

How can I change the name on my certificate?

Hi Batth

To change the name on your certificate, you first need to change your name on your TeachingEnglish profile (when you are logged on, click on "Edit Profile") Then you can use the "Help" button on the course page to request a new certificate with the new name.

Hope that helps!

Cath
TeachingEnglish Team

My new certificate is not issued

Hi Batth

Have you used the "Help" button on the course page? Please try doing that again so that the new certificate can be generated.

Thanks,
Cath

TeachingEnglish Team

Thank you so much.
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