MEGI-IR01-04

Project Title :

Training Local Teachers about Caspian Environmental Issues

Organisation :

NGO

Partner(s) :

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Region :

Caspian (Iran)

Project Number :

MEGI-IR01-04

Duration :

one year starting January 2005

Financing (US$) :

CEP-MEG: USD 2,800

Status :

Ongoing

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Description :

Background and Problem Statement Environmental Education is very weakly developed in schools in Iran and although many teachers, especially of biology, geography and geology do their best, they need more knowledge and information to do teach environmental education effectively. There are chances in the curriculum to do more environmental education. In High School Geography courses, students are expected to study the Gilan province and a good text book has been written for this course. The text book includes some pages about environmental problems of the province. The Department of Environment in Gilan has also just established a Wetland Education Centre.

Goals and Objectives

• Develop a two day training course for teachers about the problems of the Caspian in the Gilan province and Province environmental problems.
• Develop some additional materials for the Gilan Province course that can be used by environment related science teachers. These materials will include different activities to the traditional classroom approach. They will be student centred and will include some that can be done outside the classroom with their pupils.
• Teach this training course from the Wetland Education Centre. The first day of the training course will concentrate on presentations about the problems of the Caspian. The second day will give teachers new ideas about how to teach about the Caspian and environmental problems.
• Then the teachers will use their new information and knowledge in their lessons. They will also be able to bring their pupils to the Wetland Education Centre to see some of the Caspian Sea problems at first hand.
• We shall review the effect of our project by sending a questionnaire to the teachers who come on the course asking them how they have used the materials and the knowledge they received and whether they have brought students to the wetland education centre.

We propose to train up to 100 environment related science teachers. Each teacher will be expected to attend a two day training event. The aim of the project is to give environment related science teacher more knowledge and understanding about the problems of the Caspian Sea. The content of the course will cover all the priority areas of the MEG, but we shall focus on specifically local Gilan issues and issues that the young people that teachers teach can do something about themselves. We shall concentrate on biodiversity and pollution.

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Lessons Learned :

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Contact :

Telephone: 0131-224-7075

Address: 2nd floor, Moallem Junction, Saadi St., Rasht, Gilan, I.R.Iran

e-mail: Delaram100@yahoo.com