This document discusses sustainable development and how to incorporate related concepts into classroom teaching. It emphasizes engaging students through cross-curricular and transversal approaches, with teachers and parents playing key roles in promoting change. Some challenges are the variability between schools and difficulty formally recognizing attitudinal versus knowledge-based changes. The document provides examples of how sustainable development can be taught through various subjects like math, arts, languages, geography, and science. It concludes by thanking participants and stating that the conference is the first step on the journey.

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2. What do we mean by Development?
What is sustainability?
How do we work these concepts in the classroom?
What kind of concepts should I
be familiar with?
How can I have a coerent approach
throughout the project?
How do we engage students in these topics?

3. But we are sure that:
We want to change attitudes and
behaviours;
We have to be concrete in our
approach;
These topics should be worked in a
transversal and cross curricular way;
TEACHERS ARE KEY PLAYERS
IN PROMOTING CHANGE and
we should act as multipliers!
There should be an active involvement
of parents, other school workers;

4. In our national context we will have
to face some CHALLENGES:
• Reality differs a lot from school to school;
• Formal recognitition of attitudional change is
not the same as the one existing to recognise
knowledge acquisition;
• Educative System is not ready to work on
sustainability
This is why it makes sense for us to work
on this Project!

5. In practice:
• In MATHS, we can work several sustainable
development topics and teach statistics at the same
time;
• In ARTS (Visual in Education), the use of images can be a
triger to raise the debate among students and promote
critical thinking;
• In LANGUAGES (English, French, Portuguese, etc.) by for
example debating “Which commodities are produced
where and by whom, and who consumes them?”we can
teach countries, nationalities, study adjective degrees,
etc.;
• In GEOGRAPHY when studying the Millenium
Development Goals (MDGs) we can show what was
effectively achieved and how did citizens contributed to
these achievements and make the link to sustainable
developments;

6. In practice:
• In SCIENCE and BIOLOGY, when talking about
Sustainability we can also highlight the social and
economic dimensions and show concrete examples of
behaviours that should be adopted;
• SPECIAL EDUCATION students have a lot of potential
and they engagement in this topics can inspire the
entire school community;
• We can value student’s involvement at the school
level and create a yearly PRIZE to publicly recognize
their actions during the school year.

7. "The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step."
Lao Tzu
EAThink 2015 is our first step!
MUITO OBRIGADA!
Thank you very much!