One Day Climate Chagne Peterborough

The first one day climate change PD session.

 -initial questions from this group indicated a conventional world view -a lot of them wanted content about cc to pass on to their students

-need to provide with some links for their personal/professional learning about cc in general -recommend Resilience.org  others?

-another common issue was how to engage students -should have just pointed out that students respond positively when the learning is interesting -i.e stop with the boring info transfer

-the process we follow -professional inquiry still worked with this group -they participated authentically even though overall they were not a cc knowledgeable group

  See the slides in the Peterborough folder for the order of the day.

r4r
  Included Joanne's r4r session in the morning just before lunch which allowed time to reorganize the questions. (R4R well received -which is par for the course for conventional educators -they are looking for ready made solutions and r4r has a lot of those)
-note to self -CC resources handout -this needs to be revamped to include what transformative learning strategies each of the resources uses  -also remove reference to clean nuclear

 Time factor is relevant and after doing a few of these one day sessions we will have to decide if this is worth the effort -maybe only offer 2 day -but that is yet to be determined -wait until after April 3

-as with many institutes -it does not fall into place until the second day -we lacked that opportunity

End of day reflections gave indication that the time constraints of a one day undermine what can be achieved.

-some comments
The day was more around how to change our lesson design. If you had time to show us how to write better inquiry lessons that would be great.

 I would have liked to have the learning from the afternoon be done in the morning and to have some time to collaborate and plan in the afternoon. There were some great ideas that were shared, but it is difficult to find the time to plan and organize. Need more specific learning around what inquiry looks like at the secondary level.

- Would have liked to discuss technology and key themes

 -I felt that at times, the presenters could be pushing a larger jump into experiential learning than some teachers are ready for. I felt as though, some of the learning could have been focused a little more on meeting teachers where they are currently rather than where you'd like to see us be.

Innovations

-the one slide documentation developed by Tanya -let's see what is produced on April 3
-changed the concept maping activity  -stil lnot clear as to what to do wiht the inital concpt maps that are produced by the groups -
-connecting with the county of Peterborough cc coordinator to explore community partners was beneficial -though she and most of the group probably did not get what an authentic partnership is all about -so tough to dispel conventional teaching worldviews in teachers and non teachers

Other insights
-this board is on the deep learning program  -top down -though shalt do deep learning -we offered a different approach

-a number of times it was noted however that what we were presenting was consistent with the deep learning worldview



-it might be beneficial to offer up some specific course based approaches to dealing with cc

ex take a topic and express it in terms of questions

-take  topic in a course and apply the project based cascade

-map out what a good community partnership might look like
-use page 72 and 73 to paln an inwury
-but alas these take time 

Educator to note

Aaron McFadden -looks to be the leading light of the group on applying trans formative strategies -weekly Wednesday outings, experiential learning projects
-maybe prompt a blog post on his grade 7 Wednesday outings