Green Teacher Webinars

Posted by on February 06, 2012

Upcoming Green Teacher Webinars

Starting next week, our webinar series resumes for 2012 with nine new dates/topics announced through March—please find details below.  You can sign up for these sessions, and find more information on the presenters, at http://www.greenteacher.com/webinars.html.

Can’t attend a webinar?  Don’t worry!  Archived recordings of all of our webinars are also available on our website.  (Archives are available free of charge to anyone for one month following each webinar, and are thereafter available to Green Teacher subscribers.)

Please stay tuned for additional dates and topics to be announced in the near future.  If you have suggestions for webinar topics or would like to be a presenter, please contact us.

Thank you and we hope to see you at one or more of these upcoming sessions!

Cheers,
Tim Grant, Editor

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Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EST
Webinar topic:  “Exploring Place-based Education – What, Why, and How”
Presenter:  Clifford E. Knapp
You have no doubt heard about place-based education and the importance of teaching in and about your local surroundings. This webinar will explore some big ideas about this emerging field and attempt to shed more light on the topic. For the first 25 minutes, Dr. Knapp will present some important concepts and raise some questions to ponder. These will include some definitions, guiding principles, and characteristics of place-based education. Other topics will include: Living Well in Place, Place Attachment, Displacement, Ecoliteracy, Bioregionalism, Pedagogy of Place, Identity, Powerful Places, and Reading the Landscape. These big ideas will be referenced so that webinar participants can follow up with additional reading. The last 35 minutes of the program will consist of a question and answer session that will likely include mention of additional resources for teaching more about your place. Come prepared to dig deeper into your locale.
Suitability:  All formal and non-formal youth educators (and others who may be interested)

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EST
Webinar topic:  “Deep Climate Change Education: Learning and Teaching for Personal and Social Transformation”
Presenters:  David Selby and Fumiyo Kagawa

Building on their Fall 2011 article in Green Teacher, Fumiyo Kagawa and David Selby will critique mainstream manifestations of climate change education as a shallow and insufficient response to the global and human condition. They will offer an elaboration of a ‘deep climate change education’ that examines values issues, explores the dynamics of climate change avoidance and denial, investigates the complicity of economic growth in fomenting climate change while cultivating intimacy with nature, an ethic of denizenship, and commitment to global climate justice. The links between climate change education, sustainability education and disaster risk reduction education will be explored, the whole being exemplified through practical activities.
Suitability:  All formal and non-formal youth educators

Tuesday, March 27, 2012, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EST
Webinar topic:  “Schoolyards Re-Imagined: School Ground Innovation in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond”
Presenter:  Sharon Danks
Schools around the world are using their grounds to enhance hands-on teaching and learning, enrich outdoor play, and improve the ecology of their neighborhoods.  Sharon Danks will present a vibrant slideshow that takes us on a journey to explore the growing movement toward “green” school grounds.  Along the way, we will “visit” some of the world’s most innovative green schoolyards including schools with: edible gardens with fruit trees, vegetables, chickens, honeybees, and outdoor cooking facilities; wildlife habitats with ponds or forest ecosystems; schoolyard watershed models, rainwater catchment systems, and waste-water treatment wetlands; renewable energy systems that power landscape features or the whole school; waste-as-a-resource projects that give new life to old materials in beautiful ways; curriculum connections for a wide range of disciplines from science and math to art and social studies; and creative play opportunities that diversify school ground recreational options and encourage children to explore the natural world while they run, hop, skip, jump, balance, slide, and twirl. The talk will also ground these examples in a practical framework that schools can use to make their schoolyards more comfortable, enjoyable, and sustainable, and describe a participatory design process to engage school communities as stewards of their own public spaces.
Suitability:  All formal and non-formal youth educators, school administrators, parents, environmentalists, and design professionals

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