Offering climate change education to pre-service teachers outside the higher ed classroom
Abstract
Preparing the next generation of K-12 teachers for teaching climate change in the classroom is a current and pressing issue. However, fully incorporating climate change into pre-service teacher education programs at higher education institutions will require significant changes in multiple courses in their curriculum. That kind of effort takes time and requires significant resources and administrative buy-in. We have developed a flexible model through which pre-service teachers can engage with climate change information and integrate activities into their first lesson plans. This opportunity can be offered outside of the traditional college curriculum. It has now been tested on several campuses with a variety of pre-service teachers preparing for subjects ranging from physical education to physics, and for teaching students.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AGUFMED32A..04R
- Keywords:
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- 0805 Elementary and secondary education;
- EDUCATIONDE: 0830 Teacher training;
- EDUCATIONDE: 0850 Geoscience education research;
- EDUCATIONDE: 1699 General or miscellaneous;
- GLOBAL CHANGE