The Consumer Classroom Website is an EU-funded educational tool dedicated to secondary schoolteachers who teach consumer-related subjects in European secondary schools.
Through this website teachers can create or choose ready-made lessons on consumer topics. The consumer themes covered vary from sustainable and responsible consumption to financial literacy.
Consumer education crosses many disciplines and can be incorporated into different school subjects. Hence, this interactive website can also be a useful tool for teachers who do not teach consumer affairs.
To make use of the website’s teaching resources, teachers do not require any previous knowledge of consumer education, as teaching resources include short introductions and relate to one or a number of subjects and consumer themes. Through Lesson Builder, teachers can create their own lesson plans which, once completed, can be published on the website or shared with their students in the My Class area.
This interactive website also makes it easy for teachers to collaborate online with other teachers and classrooms in their own country or in another EU member state.
The website also offers teachers the opportunity to become a consumer education expert online. Teachers who sign up on this website will benefit from free resources, access to the interactive lesson builder, access to My Class to share lessons with students, inter-school projects and competitions, EU forum allowing exchange of views, sharing of consumer education news and experience between peers across the EU and knowledge-building materials.
Teachers are not the only target audience of this website, as the information may be of great interest also to consumer organisations, consumer education experts and parents. More information may be found at www.consumerclassroom.eu.
The Office for Consumer Affairs within the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority recently signed a new partnership agreement with the Consumer Classroom Consortium, whereby it commits to contributing to the website by increasing its visibility, providing consumer education resources, reviewing pedagogical resources and commiting to promoting consumer education.