By Kate Gatto and Pritha Karmaker | TIGed Team Members
Educators from around the world have taken part in TIGed’s professional development e-course, “Education for Environmental Stewardship”. Now its 8th cycle, the focus of this course is the importance of environmental awareness and engagement among our students, taking advantage of a variety of classroom tools and resources. In this cycle, participants from Nigeria, Canada, India and Romania have joined in every week to engage in discussions about environmental projects of which they are part, and how to incorporate more environmental elements into their learning environments.
Lidia, an educator from Boldesti-Scaeni, Romania, is one of such scholarship recipients who has shown a passionate drive towards taking what has been learned through the e-course and applying it to the various environmentally-focused projects she is a part of at the school she teaches at. She shares, “The course was useful for me because I strengthened in the idea of devising strategies [and] co-working with colleagues who teach classes [on] ecology [and] natural resources. Implementation of an environmental project could have a big impact both for the school and the local community on establishing [environmental] partnership agreements.”
For Lidia’s final project, she plans to have her class collect packaging material (i.e. plastic bottles), and explore supplementary “lessons on manufacturing processes and production of new plastics”. Her dedication to improving the environmental literacy of the youth with whom she works is admirable, and her efforts to create an engaging environment for her students to grow in has resonated with the many other educators in the e-course who strive to do the same.
Through the generosity of donors, educators from around the world have been able to take part in the e-courses, fostering a greater sense of environmental stewardship among the youth with whom they work. A warm thank you goes out to everyone who has taken part in ensuring that global and environmental education progresses and that educators have the necessary support and resources to bring it into the classroom!
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