Register here by December 6, 2024: https://stemteachersnyc.org/climate-change-microcredential/
In early 2023 STEMteachersNYC and City College of New York began collaborating on and inviting partners to contribute to a nine credit microcredential to ground teachers in Climate Change, Systems Thinking and Sustainability content, pedagogy, and a range of vetted tools, lessons and units already in use across NYC schools. Coursework shall be application and practice-based, leveraging current events through the Ecology Disrupted curriculum, to help prepare teachers 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.
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!
COURSE SCHEDULING
Dates below are approximate, and are meant to give you a sense of time and schedule commitment:
Course 1 | SCIE7509 Climate as a System | Approx schedule
In person: Feb 2, 9 @City College, 10am-3pm
Via Zoom: Feb 26, March 5, 12, 19, 26, April 2, 9, 16, 4:30-7:00pm
In person: May 4 @Brooklyn Botanical Garden, 10am-3pm
35hrs
Course 2 | Climate In the Field | Approx Schedule
One week plus one afternoon
July 7-11, 9:30am-3:30pm & July 14, 3:30-6:45pm ET
35hrs
Course 3 | Climate in the Classroom & Community | Approx Schedule
Fully virtual
July 15-25, 3:30-6:45pm ET
35hrs
In 2025 the hosts are excited to be incorporating more course-spanning projects and texts, and will be collaborating with Tom Roderick to integrate parts of "Teaching for Climate Justice" and some of the NYC teachers quoted in his book. Another important thing to consider is giving back. Cohort 1 teachers have gone on to galvanize programs in their classrooms and schools, create their own climate education frameworks, become sustainability coordinators, and more, and will be returning to share their work with you!
The hosts are maintaining a waitlist and would ideally like to confirm participation the week of December 2nd. Please also feel free to send over any questions. This program will be made available to any NYC teacher, public, charter, independent! Questions: yadana@stemteachersnyc.org