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Teacher Professional Development
2016 Recommendations on Teacher Professional Development
Ensure that future educators know how to incorporate environmental, energy, and climate topics into their teaching
Ensure that teachers already in the classroom have the skills they need to incorporate environmental, energy, and climate topics into their teaching
Thoughts Moving Forward
Educate teachers about environmental, energy, and climate topics
Hold mandatory school-wide environmental projects/competitions
Provide teachers with up-to-date resources for teaching about climate change and how it will affect our future
Secure funding for more technology and environmental education for teachers
Teachers are doing their best with available resources. That said, we feel that much of our formal climate education is coming from teachers that implement outdated resources that don’t provide adequate information. The curriculum goes hand-in-hand with professional development. It is vital to prioritize teacher’s access to sufficient, up-to-date resources to make sure education referring to climate change and energy is accurate and timely.
The problem is that teachers are not educated on important topics such as climate change
and are therefore unable to inform their students accurately. In some cases, they have less knowledge than their students. Teachers
need access to up-to-date research and resources so that ever-changing issues, such as climate change, can be taught in a straightforward and accurate way. Therefore, we suggest adding more technology and environmental education to the teacher’s professional development. The proper education of teachers and the integration of new resources in the classroom will lead to a stronger sense of concern and advocacy towards climate issues among students while developing their passion for the environment
Haleigh M,. ‘Man of Wisdom.’ Cochrane
2020 Recommendations by Students
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