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COURSE SESSIONS

Climate on Stage: Using Drama and Storytelling to Teach Environmental Responsibility

 

Introduction

Bring climate education to life through drama and storytelling. This course empowers educators to transform environmental topics into engaging, emotional, and action-oriented learning experiences, fostering students’ awareness, empathy, and responsibility for a sustainable future.

 

Description

“Climate on Stage: Using Drama and Storytelling to Teach Environmental Responsibility” is an interdisciplinary teacher training course that integrates environmental education with creative pedagogies. Grounded in principles of experiential learning and arts-based education, the course explores how drama and narrative can deepen students’ understanding of climate change, sustainability, and ecological responsibility. Participants engage in practical workshops using role-play, improvisation, storytelling, and devising theatre to translate complex environmental concepts into meaningful learning experiences. The course emphasises emotional engagement, critical thinking, and active citizenship, aligning with key Erasmus+ priorities, particularly the green transition and innovative teaching methods. Through collaborative creation, field-based activities, and reflective practice, educators develop adaptable strategies for diverse classrooms. The course ultimately supports teachers in fostering environmentally responsible attitudes and empowering learners to become agents of change.

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand key concepts of climate change, sustainability, and environmental responsibility in education

  • Apply drama-based methodologies (role-play, improvisation, storytelling) to environmental topics

  • Design engaging, student-centred learning experiences using arts-based approaches

  • Foster emotional engagement and empathy towards environmental issues among learners

  • Integrate climate education across the curriculum through interdisciplinary strategies

  • Facilitate collaborative and inclusive learning environments using creative methods

  • Develop lesson plans and classroom activities aligned with sustainability goals

  • Encourage critical thinking, reflection, and active citizenship in students

  • Adapt drama techniques to different age groups, contexts, and learner needs

 

Methodology and Assessment

The course applies an experiential, learner-centred methodology combining practical workshops, collaborative learning, reflection, and field-based activities. Participants engage in hands-on drama exercises, peer feedback, and micro-teaching. Assessment is continuous and formative, based on active participation, reflective journals, group work, and the design and presentation of classroom-ready activities.

 

Materials, Digital Tools & Other Learning Resources

Participants will use a variety of resources including drama prompts, storytelling frameworks, and environmental case studies. Digital tools may include Padlet for idea sharing, Canva for visual storytelling, and Mentimeter for reflection and feedback. Outdoor environments and local contexts are also used as key learning resources.

 

Preparation

After registration participants will receive pre-course questionnaire which will be used by the trainer to learn about participants’ teaching backgrounds and to assess their exact needs. Before the beginning of the course a basic reading list will be suggested to participants to prepare for the training. Participants will also be asked to prepare a presentation about themselves, their professional context and their culture which will be presented during the course. Participants will receive information about the country they are going to visit in order to prepare them for their cultural experience.

 

Follow up

After the course participants will be asked to share what they have learned with the rest of the staff in their schools. Further books and articles to deepen the topic and contacts with some other practitioners all over Europe and in the world will be suggested by the trainer. The methods shared and explored and the bibliography given will allow the participants to complete and improve their educational path.

 

Certificate

Each participant will get a course attendance certificate and on request we will complete the Europass Mobility Document.

 

Accommodation

We do not directly offer accommodation and subsistence and participants are responsible for organizing it by themselves.

 

Paperwork

We also provide all the support with paperwork you might need for your Erasmus+ project documentation such as mobility agreement and registration letter.

 

Fee: 560 €

 

Cancelation policy

Free cancellation up to 30 days before the start. After that, the reservation is not refundable. Changes in name and profile of the participant are possible any time before the start of the course (replacement participants from the same school/org are accepted at any time). In case the school/org doesn't find a replacement, we will still offer a place at any of our confirmed courses later in the year without any additional costs but we can not guarantee that every course session will be confirmed and the school/org will only be offered to choose from already confirmed course sessions. In case it will not be possible for the participant to attend the course or for us to organize the course due to extraordinary circumstances (classified as such by the European Commission) which present themselves in the period of less than 30 days before the start of the course and we don’t manage to find an alternative solution, we will keep 50 % of the payment and refund the remaining balance of 50% to the payer’s bank account.


Draft Programme - 35 didactic hours

 

Day 1 

  • Welcome and introduction

  • Outline of the programme

  • Cultural exchange

  • Warm ups and icebreakers

  • Course expectations and needs analysis, setting up a collaborative learning environment and creating an educational contract

  • Introduction to drama in education

Day 2

  • Overview of climate change education in schools

  • Key concepts: sustainability, SDGs, environmental responsibility

  • Challenges teachers face when teaching climate topics

  • Benefits of embodied learning, emotional engagement, and storytelling

  • Linking drama to curriculum objectives

Day 3

  • Introduction to storytelling in education

  • Elements of a powerful story

  • Climate narratives: from data to human stories

  • Emotional impact and student engagement

Day 4

  • Demonstration of drama techniques with environmental scenarios

  • Practice of role-play on real-life climate dilemmas

  • Applying structured drama strategies in teaching

Day 5

  • Forum theatre introduction

  • Interactive problem-solving through performance

  • Designing short classroom drama interventions

Day 6

  • Outdoor & site-based learning

  • Collecting inspiration for stories

  • Creating eco-scenes or stories based on real environment

  • Integrating fieldwork into school practice

Day 7

  • Design of personal plan for implementation of teaching environmental responsibility using drama and storytelling

  • Presentation of outputs(personal implementation plans)

  • Group reflection, feedback and discussion

  • Dissemination strategy and European dimension

  • Validation of the learning outcomes

  • Evaluation of the course

  • Closing session

Contact

00385(0)998372020

Ulica Jurja Križanića 11 - 10000 Zagreb - Hrvatska

Organisation ID: E10010133

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