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Global Education and European Teaching Strategies
2018-1-ES01-KA101-049441
Each class elects a gender spokesperson at the beginning of the
school year. These spokespersons meet regularly and together, with
the help of the teachers’ gender team, discuss different issues about
gender and diversity and develop further ideas for implementing
the gender policy in the school. The gender team makes it easier for
students to encourage both classmates and teachers to engage in
gender-aware behaviour and organizes a set of activities:
workshops, celebration of women’s week, women’s day on March
8th, diversity day, etc.
Their role is to ensure
 respect for their classmates regardless of their different origin,
appearance, gender and others.
 "equal treatment" and "equal rights" occur as subjects in the
classroom.
 gender-appropriate language and working documents are
used.
 the use of different teaching strategies which take into account
the different learning styles.
All the members of the gender team attend a weekend training
course outside the school once a year to improve their skills as
spokespersons.
2. The environment pillar (Education for sustainable development)
Their main goal is to help students acquire a life-long ecological
competence that will improve their environmental behaviour. All the
activities are addressed to changing attitudes by reflecting on global
scarcity and unfair distribution of resources and analysing their own
lifestyle. Therefore this environmental education pursues a long-
term learning and experience process that will ensure a different
and better approach towards environmental issues of the future
generations.
This environmental commitment started in 1998 with a school-wide
energy project and since then environmental topics have become
standard in regular lessons. To guarantee the correct
implementation of these activities, an environmental management
system in accordance with the EU's EMAS Regulation is used.