We are at the defining moment of our lifetime and there is a very different future waiting in the wings for the next generation. Every pupil completing their first year now will graduate after 2035, when the UK is meant to have reduced its emissions by 78% towards net zero. The lifestyles, jobs and challenges will look very differently than what it they do now, and the education system must ensure it prepares the pupils for that.  

In a poll conducted by YouGov on behalf of Oxfam in 2020, 77% of teachers agreed there should be more teaching in UK schools about climate change with 70% concluding radical change was needed to make the education system “fit for the times we live in”. Unfortunately, the same research found that only 18% felt they have received adequate subject training to support their students. Although the Department for Education's new strategy on climate change and sustainability introduced a number of significant changes coming into schools in the next few years, a lot of work is still needed to ensure every teacher receives the training and support they need to adapt.

Teach Earth programme helps to futureproof your teaching and prepare you for challenging but exciting changes that lay ahead. We believe that educators are powerful agents able to inspire the next generation, enhance their curiosity of the natural world, create solutions-focused thinking and build a foundation of strong scientific knowledge of the environment ensuring they have the agency to shape their future.  

We empower the teachers to enhance the curriculum, create sustained and impactful engagement with their students and foster a deeper connection with nature, and build emotional resilience to address environmental crises and a dramatic systemic change by offering knowledge, skills, practices as well as sustained support and peer learning opportunities to form a community of informed and inspiring teachers. 

Through our carefully designed Teach Earth learning programme:

• Build teachers' skills, confidence and motivation to teach environmental science in an ever-changing world;    

• Enable teachers to create sustained and impactful learning experiences with their students and foster a deeper connection with nature;    

• Empower teachers to integrate environmental themes across their curriculum teaching and become changemakers in their educational settings; 

• Develop teacher’s skills to inspire and become leaders in environmental whole-school projects with their team; 

• Ensure that regular access to high quality green space is an equitable opportunity in all parts of the UK; 

• Offer peer learning opportunities to continue engagement and development as members of our Earthwatch Education Community.