Following the global environmental crisis: A new program for climate and environmental studies in schools will be implemented starting next year.
At the Beit Berl Academic College, the 19th conference on environmental education was held today (Monday), in parallel with the International Climate Day, which took place yesterday.
The conference dealt with resilience and environmental-educational entrepreneurship, preparing for the ecological crisis that befalls the entire world, and dealing with the educational challenges it poses to teachers, students and parents.
Tamar Zandberg, Minister of Environmental Protection, said at the conference: "Educational curricula should surround students from the moment they enter the public education system and youth movements. That is why I am so proud of the program we launched with the Ministry of Education - Climate and Environmental Studies Twelve - to be implemented as early as the next school year. "
"Teachers need to be trained to teach the climate crisis."
Zandberg and Tamir at the conference, Photo: Ofer Shimoni
Prof. Yuli Tamir, president of Beit Berl Academic College, said: "We are not sufficiently aware of the anxieties that resonate in the children. Concern about the environmental crisis preoccupies them and them, and they live in an anxiety that cannot be ignored. The distress is greater than we admit to ourselves. Educate without training the teachers themselves to deal with the climate crisis and teach it.
"At Beit Berl, we have put this issue at the top of our priorities, and we are committed to training teachers from all areas of knowledge to assimilate the issue of climate in their lessons."
Prof. Tamir at the conference,
At the same time, another conference on the environment was held today at Beit Berl, where the Youth Movements Council held a discussion promoting ecological life that will minimize the damage to the environment.
Naftali Deri, Secretary General of the Youth Movements Council, said: "This day is another important and significant record in the program with the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
We are excited about the educational connection created with the Beit Berl Academic College.
The highlight of the day will be the launch of a first-of-its-kind app, to encourage the reduction of the ecological footprint of members of youth movements and organizations in Matan.
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