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Title: The Climate Change 101 Workshop
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Categories: Education
Environment
Globalization
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
September 20 09 to September 20 09
Description:
Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing global issues facing us today, and students worldwide are crying out for the opportunity to make a difference. The Climate Change 101 Workshop will address this need by empowering post-secondary educators to support their students by engaging them in climate action. We will work with a diverse group of post-secondary educators from across British Columbia to help them realize the direct link between their area of expertise and climate change and to develop climate-action-focused projects that meet curriculum requirements, while empowering students through real-world learning to become positive forces of change in their communities. We believe that university classrooms provide the ideal venue and have the moral responsibility to foster meaningful, on-the-ground climate action, and the Climate Change 101 Workshop will ensure that this happens.
We will work with a diverse set of stakeholders to make the Climate Change 101 workshop a reality. This will include, but is not limited to:
• Post-secondary educators
• Post-secondary institutions
• Students
• Youth Environmental NGO’s
• Post-secondary education conferences
• Post-secondary education programs
• Broad climate change community
• Curriculum developers
• Community organizations
• Academics/researchers who focus on education
• Education publications
• Environmental educators
• BC Government
• Municipal governments who host post-secondary institutions
• Community Service Learning and Co-op Education programs
• Student-run environmental and social issues groups
• Post-secondary institutions administration, facilities and planning staff
• Local media
• General Public
Background:
Climate change is one of most urgent issues facing the world today, impacting humanity’s social and economic systems, as well as the natural world (IPCC, 2007). In order for the world’s citizenry to unite to work together towards a common goal of solving the climate crisis, they must be educated in both the impacts of and the solutions for climate change (Climate Project, 2009). Post-secondary educators are one piece of the puzzle needed to fill this expanding need, but for them to take up this mantle the existing gap of resources and support must be addressed. The ever-expanding academic research focusing on post-secondary teaching and learning identifies a strong need for engagement of students through hands-on, meaningful, active learning, that allows them to tackle real-world issues, aiding in their development in becoming passionate and engaged citizens (Pratt, 2005). This same research stresses the need to develop interdisciplinary and intergenerational learning opportunities for students and educators (Pratt, 2005).
Purpose:
We exist to provide resources and support to post-secondary educators to engage their students in meaningful, on-the-ground climate action, regardless of their disciplinary specialty.
Mission:
Our mission is to equip university professors with the tools and resources they need to address climate change meaningfully in their classrooms, regardless of discipline, and to support them in the development of projects that will meaningfully engage their students in on-the-ground climate action.
Vision:
We envision every post-secondary educator in British Columbia actively engaging the student population in climate action.
Scope:
In its initial stages the Climate Change 101 workshop will focus in British Columbia, and on post-secondary educators. The citizens of British Columbia, although very diverse, share a unique set of challenges and solutions to climate change. Post-secondary curriculum is inherently more flexible than K-12 curriculum making it easier for educators to implement what they learn in the Climate Change 101 workshops immediately in their classrooms.
References:
Climate Project, 2009: The Climate Project. http://www.theclimateproject.org/
IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Core Writing Team, Pachauri, R.K and Reisinger, A. (eds.)]. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 104 pp.
Pratt, D.D., 2005: Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, 289 pp.
Objectives:
Present a simplified post-secondary educators workshop at the International Conference on University Teaching on July 14, 2009 to help flush out workshop format, resources, and focus. (Complete)
Establish partnership with goBeyond to facilitate and coordinate workshop by the end of July, 2009. (Complete)
In partnership with goBeyond, establish workshop framework, outline, and deliverables by the end of October, 2009.
In partnership with goBeyond, secure in-kind support for a facility in which to host the workshop by December 16, 2009.
In partnership with goBeyond, secure funding for the workshop by the end of January, 2010.
In partnership with goBeyond, finalize workshop format by the start of March, 2010.
In partnership with goBeyond, Sierra Youth Coalition, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, and Red Fish School of Change, train facilitators for the workshop by April 15, 2010.
Present the first full-scale post-secondary educators workshop, using a train-the-trainer format, in Vancouver in May, 2010 to 100 participants from throughout British Columbia.
Workshop participants will present the workshop at their home institutions in July, 2010 to allow other post-secondary educators the opportunity to take up the ideas and incorporate them into their fall semester lesson plans.
Planning for a second workshop, to be held outside of the Lower Mainland, will begin in September, 2010.
Milestones:
• Present pilot workshop at the International University Teaching Conference on July 14, 2009. (Complete)
• The workshop has been taken on by goBeyond, and is included in their 2009-1010 work plan for their Education Pillar. (Complete)
• Basic workshop plan is developed and approved. (October, 2009)
• The budget is prepared. (November, 2009)
• The funding proposal is prepared. (November, 2009)
• The ethical funding guidelines are prepared. (November, 2009)
• The workshop venue is secured. (December, 2009)
• The workshop is funded. (January, 2010)
• Promotional email prepared. (January, 2010)
• Promotional poster prepared. (January, 2010)
• Promotional flyer prepared. (January, 2010)
• Workshop website functional and online. (January, 2010)
• Detailed workshop plan prepared. (March, 2010)
• Workshop materials prepared. (March, 2010)
• Workshop presentations prepared. (March, 2010)
• Participant information packages prepared. (March, 2010)
• Workshop facilitators are recruited. (March, 2010)
• Recruitment and promotional plan fully executed. (March, 2010)
• Facilitator training materials prepared. (April, 2010)
• Facilitators are trained. (April, 2010)
• Participants are registered. (April, 2010)
• The workshop takes place. (May, 2010)
• A minimum of 10 workshops take place across the province hosted by participants of the train-the-trainer workshop. (July, 2010)
• Workshop feedback reviewed and key learning documented. (June, 2010)
• Final reports for funders and partners. (June, 2010)
• Assessment of the need for a second province-wide workshop. (August, 2010)
• If a second train-the-trainer workshop is necessary, put in place an organizing team. (September, 2010)
Budget:
INCOME
Contributions from businesses (catering, transportation and accommodation discounts)
$5,000
In-kind Donations ($35,000):
Project Staff $25,000
Venue $5,000
Website and Social Media $5,000
Grants from Funders $20,000
TOTAL PROJECT INCOME $60,000
EXPENSE TYPE OF EXPENSE COST
Salaries (volunteers - represents value of in-kind support) $25,000
Venue $5,000
Website and Social Media $5,000
Participant Scholarships (partial accommodation and travel grants) $20,000
Workshop Material Production $2,000
Catering $2,000
Contingency $1,000
TOTAL PROJECT EXPENSE $60,000
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