BACKGROUND: TEACHERS’ RECOMMENDATIONS

Results of Teachers’s survey – summary of CAWI report (2017):

Science teachers have on average a very limited time to introduce polar issues to their students;

Science teachers and polar educators have on average many groups of students with which they can conduct lessons about the Arctic;

The new educational materials would be used mainly on geography, nature, and biology lessons;

Among the suggested topics, the most interesting one for teachers was “Climate change – causes and consequences”;

Many teachers and educators are willing to use English, even if it’s not their mother tongue;

The most desirable types of new educational materials were “Multimedia presentations – PowerPoint”, “Movies”, and “Graphics and schemes”;

Respondents found “Websites/ web portals” as the most useful way of communication between educational projects and teachers;