This workshop will explore active learning strategies for deepening your students’ understanding of crucial concepts in environmental and sustainability science and help you effectively implement a student-centered and NGSS aligned approach to science education. Whether you are an experienced teacher, or new to the teaching profession you will feel excited and motivated for your upcoming school year after participating in this highly immersive and collaborative workshop.
Participants will engage in thought-provoking, pertinent experiments, and activities that you can utilize in your own classroom. We will spend time observing instruction from the point of view of a student (“student-mode”), and learn strategies to incorporate in their own classroom using the claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) framework, Social Ecological Systems (SES), transdisciplinary thinking, and panarchy as tools to probe student preconceptions. Periodically, participants will switch to “teacher-mode”, to practice Socratic questioning techniques, analyze readings, and discuss the pedagogical rationale for all aspects of active learning and modeling in Environmental Science. We’ll also discuss strategies for accommodating district-specific curricular requirements, various student populations, laboratory resources, and the use of “Reflective Checklists” as a way of promoting student reflection throughout a unit.
The Applied Panarchy in Environmental Science curriculum curriculum blends a humanities-based lens with scientific methods to create a transdisciplinary approach, to empower students to live more sustainable lives. Panarchy transcends the boundaries of scale and discipline. Most importantly, the panarchy model advocates a transition from a static understanding of nature to a dynamic idea that places an emphasis on multiple stable states, resilience, and cross-scale interactions that result in adaptive change. The adaptive cycle – in its development, deployment, and representation – ties each of the units of the APES curriculum together. So if you’re a high school environmental science teacher wanting to learn some great activities to invigorate your teaching practices or a teacher wanting to learn some notable strategies to improve student discourse then this is the workshop for you!
Leaders: Glen Stuart, Kerry Kline, Jessica Pagodin
Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2021 – Aug. 3, 2021 (9 AM – 3 PM)
PLEASE NOTE!
You can experience this workshop in its entirety or in modules. If you wish, you may register for only those days you are most interested in. Below is The Full Workshop Menu which displays major content objectives along with the specific types of pedagogical techniques employed every day.
However, if you are only able to come for a select number of days and most interested in certain pedagogical methods, The Techniques column will give you a sense of when each type of technique will be addressed so that you can make the workshop work for you and your schedule.
