Teaching and Facilitation

Environmental Education

(EDUC 4374) In the face of climate change, environmental degradation, and food and water insecurity, one of the key aims is to explore the interdependent relationship between human and natural systems. Inherently interdisciplinary and with diverse emphases, environmental education occurs in a variety of learning contexts and in an experiential manner. Current environmental education research, theory, policy, curriculum, and practice will be critically examined, as will constraints and possibilities for implementation in Ontario schools.

Climate Change Education

(EDUC 5414) This special topics course explores climate change as a defining issue for educators, students and citizens. The course focuses on developing an informed understanding of climate change science, policy, difficulties of communicating climate change, along with exploring how schools and teachers can effectively engage with climate change as an urgent, unpredictable, wicked environmental, economic, political, and social justice issue. Therefore, our learning and work in this course aligns with Article 12 of the Paris Climate Change Agreement: “Parties shall cooperate in taking measures, as appropriate, to enhance climate change education, training, public awareness, public participation and public access to information, recognizing the importance of these steps with respect to enhancing actions under this Agreement.”

Professional Development

• Resource guest speaker for FOCUS! Teacher’s Climate Change Collaborative - Kimberley Foundation

• Co-creating/facilitating Professional Development Project on Climate Change Education and Reconciliation with Will Burton at the MET School

• Facilitating and advising The GAIA Project’s development of a youth climate change leadership program

• Former professional development consultant with Learning for a Sustainable Future and lead author of LSF’s climate change inquiry guide: Empowering Learners in a Warming World