{"id":18918,"date":"2019-07-31T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18918"},"modified":"2019-07-31T07:21:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:21:53","slug":"a-un-accredited-program-for-climate-change-teacher-in-northern-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/a-un-accredited-program-for-climate-change-teacher-in-northern-england\/","title":{"rendered":"A UN-accredited program for \u2018climate change teacher\u2019 in northern England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Climate change and global warming is a reality which cannot be wished away. State schools in the northern region of England are soon going to have at least one \u201cclimate change teacher\u201d who is trained to teach about climate change to primary and secondary school students.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This UN training program will be executed in partnership with EduCCate Global. Jamie Driscoll, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_of_Tyne_Combined_Authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North of Tyne<\/a> Mayor, is working with the United Nations to bring world-class education in environmental science to the schools in his region.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Training for teachers will be given online. <strong>The course can be completed between fifteen to twenty hours<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The educators of the region welcome this move. They recognize the seriousness of climate change, and it is imperative that someone who is <strong>trained meticulously by the United Nations provides students with relevant information<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Climate change teacher in North of Tyne<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Batchelder from Corbridge middle school who is the leader of the project in North of Tyne believes that educating the students on how to adapt and form strategies to mitigate the effects of climate change will be a way to empower them. Additionally, the teachers who have completed the course may even come up with green solutions for the future.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The online course will educate the teachers on topics such as <strong>forests, finance, and science of climate change, negotiations, planning for adaption,<\/strong> etc.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is interesting to be noted that Mayor Driscoll and his council had declared a \u201c<strong>climate emergency<\/strong>\u201d when they first assumed office in May 2019.<\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and global warming is a reality which cannot be wished away. State schools in the northern region of England are soon going to have at least one \u201cclimate change teacher\u201d who is trained to teach about climate change to primary and secondary school students.\u00a0 This UN training program will be executed in partnership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23],"tags":[318,319,480,513,1009,1466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}