eeCourse: Teaching About Climate Justice

 The Teaching about Climate Justice eeCourse is an asynchronous, fully online course designed to prepare educators to teach climate justice topics more confidently to students in grades 6-12 or working with youth ages 12-18. The course starts Monday April 14 and ends Friday May 9th. Course Moderator: Amara Ifeji

About this eeCourse

  • Course Information

    This course is designed to prepare participants to teach about climate justice topics with middle or high school students. Participants will deepen their understanding of climate justice, confront and explore their own feelings about teaching climate justice topics, gather new resources to use in your classroom or program, and create high-quality, locally relevant lesson plan(s) that can be incorporated into your current curriculum or programming. 

  • Course Dates

    The course starts Monday April 14 and ends Friday May 9th.  The course has 4 modules.  It is recommended that participants move through the modules (one per week) but participants can move through the course at their own pace.  The course moderator requests that participants submit journal entries by Thursday of each week for feedback.

  • Number of Participants

    This course can hold 15 participants and registration is based upon a first come first serve basis.

  • Course Fee Options

    The suggested donation for this course is on a sliding scale fee model to ensure that cost is not a barrier to participation. If cost is at all a barrier please take the course for free.

    Free or Pay What You Can 
    $15 - Individuals not affiliated with an organization or have less financial mobility
    $35 - Individuals not affiliated with organizations and who have financial resources
    $50 - Individuals participating via organizations or schools who will pay for the course or individuals with more financial resources

  • Certificate of Completion

    All participants who complete the course will receive a certificate of completion and encouragement to add completion of this training to your CV/resume.  Classroom educators will receive 16 contact hours following course completion.


  • How to Register

    Please fill out this form to register for the course: EE Course Registration.To pay the suggested donation for this course:  Please go to our givebutter site and put in how much you would like to pay for this course.  In the “add comment or note” please write eecourse.

REGISTER FOR THE EECOURSE

By the end of this course participants will…

  • Understand how intersectionality and climate change are related.

  • Identify intersectional climate leaders and organizations in your community and in Maine. 

  • Gain a deeper understanding of climate justice and Identify climate justice issues and solutions in your community.

  • Explore the principles for teaching climate justice and feel better be prepared to make the case for teaching climate justice.

  • Explore strategies to address climate anxiety

  • Explore and reflect on how your identity and your students’ identities and how identity  impacts the teaching and learning of climate justice

  • Investigate civic engagement and how students can take action to give them hope in the face of the climate crisis.

  • Create a lesson plan on climate justice that moves students through a series of hands-on activities in a clear and appropriate learning progression.

Expectations

As a student of this course, it is expected that you…

  • Have some background knowledge of and comfortability engaging with or teaching climate change topics 

  • Commit the time required to complete all readings, assignments, and assessments over the 4 weeks.

  • Complete Modules 1-4 and their associated assignments, as well as submit the final course assessment.  You will have 4 weeks to complete the course upon enrollment.

Assessments and Feedback

  • Periodic assessments at the end of each module must be completed with at least 80% accuracy or a score of 2, as indicated in the scoring guides provided.  

  • Your course moderator will also provide comments and thoughts on your course journal entries.

  • To receive a certificate of completion, you must complete all assignments and receive the scores as indicated above.