Handprints for Change Teacher Education Handbook

Deeping a love of land, self & others through Handprint Actions for making things better

Activating Handprint Learning Actions in Primary Schools and Beyond

Course Content

1. Core Text – Curriculum Activated ESD Teaching Practices
2. A Handprint Approach
5 Sessions
ESD Teacher readiness and key research questions
Handprint Origins and ESD learning sequences
Handprint for Change: Teacher Education Handbook
Review of Formative Research
Key elements for planning ESD
3. Schematic Tools Lesson Design
6 Sessions
Knowledge on concerns, ethics and heritage
Start-up with real-world story
Scoping SDG Concerns
Planning Task Sequences Together
Assessment of learning or change
Evaluation for ‘practical coherence’ within ‘ethical solidarities’
4. Design materials
4 Sessions
ESD Design Task
ESD competences in Lesson Planning
Lesson planning template
Assessment planning template
5.1 Heritage Food Gardens – ESD Teaching Exemplar
6 Sessions
SDG Concerns
Izala Composting, heritage and learning activities
ukuGalesha water harvesting heritage and learning activities
Soil, soil fertility and learning activities
Imifino greens, heritage practices and learning activities
Mosuelo seed sharing and learning activities
5.2 Climate-smart heritage – ESD Teaching Exemplar
6 Sessions
Climate-smart cultural adaptation to seasonal extremes
Landscape Taming
Predicting Rain
Mitigating Disease
Growing Food
Climate-smart irrigation
5.3 Health and Nutrition – ESD Teaching Exemplar
5 Sessions
SDG Concerns
Fermented Grain Foods
Cultured milk
Wild Greens
Hand washing
5.4 Water and River Health – ESD Teaching Exemplar
5 Sessions
SDG Concerns
Clear water
Sweet water
Save water
Flood waters
5.5 Biodiversity
5 Sessions
SDG Concerns
Cattle
Rodents
Raptors
Pollinators
5.6 Marine & Coastal
6 Sessions
SDG Concerns
Traps
Mangroves
Rocks
Beaches
Reefs