• Creating 'Kaynartaş Secondary School Environmental Education Model' as an innovative and unique environmental education model so as to integrate environmental education into school culture. • Ensuring that students show a positive and permanent attitude and behavior change towards the environment by increasing 85% active participation of students in decision-making mechanisms. • Creating democratic classroom and school atmospheres by enabling our students to adopt the principles of democratic participation. • Providing students and teachers with knowledge and experience about the content and implementation of ecological- based environmental education programs by letting them examine the environmental education models applied in the secondary school curriculum. • Developing a positive attitude towards EU values and culture, facilitating adaptation to the EU education system on the way to becoming an EU citizen, and initiating the acculturation process through cooperation.
Students sitting on today's school desks will work in offices, courts, and maybe even the Turkish Grand National Assembly tomorrow. They will be the architects of all applications that can impact the environment. Undoubtedly, at the top of their responsibilities, they will qualify their environment and the sustainability of resources. They must grow up knowledgeable, conscious, and sensitive to environmental issues. Thus, they need to be in an ecological education system where they will also produce solutions to environmental problems by leading the change. Therefore, it was decided to develop and implement an innovative and unique ecological education model that addresses the needs and characteristics of our school, in which students took e an active role in offering and leading the change of the solutions to environmental problems instead of using the existing programs previously implemented.