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Since February 2023, STEMTeachersNYC and City College have been collaborating on a microcredential for in-service and preservice teachers. Cohort two of their for-credit courses starts spring 2025! Tuition may be available for up to 15 NYC Public School teachers! This Spring course will run as a regular graduate course from February-May, meeting approximately weekly.
This is a collaborative opportunity for NYC teachers to develop a local and global understanding of climate change within a coherent framework of systems thinking. Supported by hands-on experiences and student-centered pedagogy, coursework will be infused with real-world, data-rich, fieldwork experiences with local nonprofits, master teachers and climate scientists. Participants will emerge with immediately implementable tools and strategies, skills to tackle and integrate new topics, and the ongoing support of our community!
This three course (9 credit) micro-credential for in-service teachers, titled "Teaching Urban Climate Change: Systems, Science & Stewardship'' will focus on 1) building foundational knowledge and experiences to understand interconnected systems, causes, effects and solutions, 2) working with local partners to develop/enrich these experiences with field research and data analysis (for teachers and students), and 3) learning from other teachers already teaching about Climate Change in classrooms across NYC.
Collaborators include BBG, AMNH, NYC Parks, NYAS, Urban Systems Lab, a team of six master teacher-leaders and more!
Coursework shall be applications and practice-based, leveraging current events and the Ecology Disrupted curriculum, to help support teachers - you! - to be confident, knowledgeable, and equipped to not only teach about Climate Change, but create and respond to events and teaching contexts with appropriate resources and new material. Coursework will comprise:
Science Content & Fieldwork - systems and resilience focused course; participating teachers will engage with scientists and researchers in the field, grade appropriate datasets, examining down and upstream networks of causes and effects.
Emergent student and teacher-driven themes include - Keeping it local; Systems thinking; MakerSTEM & Climate; Climate Modeling and Data; Sustainability; and Youth voice.
Teaching Resources and Tools - participants will engage directly with tool and curriculum developers.
Real, vetted classroom connections - including student work, PBL strategies, real world examples - engage with teachers already teaching about CC in their classrooms.
This program will be made available to any NYC teacher, public, charter, independent! Questions: yadana@stemteachersnyc.org