Training teachers to improve education.
EDP in Schools project, which was born in 2012 within the EDP Institute, aims to contribute towards the improvement of the quality of the students’ lives in Brazil, by promoting actions that will also provide tools for the development of teachers.
To create citizens committed to the future
Interlaced with the EDP in Schools project, the actions for the teacher's training intend on promoting their professional development, endowing them with socioeconomic skills and tools that will allow them to address matters such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDO), defined by the UN, with their students, an essential matter in the training of citizens in the XXI century.
Teachers that are covered, receive the Educator Guide, with theoretical and methodological contents, that may be applied to workshops that can be performed, and plan models for classes. The program contents of the training actions are essentially centered in three areas:
1. Sustainable Development Goals (SDO): in 2015, world leaders gathered at the United Nations (UN) headquarters, in New York, to design an action plan for a more equal and healthier world. 17 objectives were set, to be followed through by 2030, that whilst intertwined, will define targets related to social justice, inclusive economy, and environment care.
2. Active methodologies: the use of active methodologies means to place students at the center of the process and work from world problems while favoring teamwork and stimulating creativity. It’s because of it, that the resetting of the traditional roles inside the classroom is so necessary.
The improvement of education goes through the continuous training of teachers so that these can then contribute towards the development of younger generations, as citizens who become increasingly more committed to the future.
