Graduate School of Education is offering the Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice Program course. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil Penn’s Graduate School of Education is offering a three-part course to teach educators climate change project design. The Project-Based Learning for Global Climate Justice Program course — led by Penn GSE professors Zachary Herrmann and Taylor Hausberg — works with 70 educators across the globe to improve climate change curriculum for K-12 students. The program aims to teach educators how to engage “students in authentic, action-oriented and meaningful learning experiences” focused on “climate change and social inequalities.” Penn’s “In Principle and Practice” institutional framework, which affirmed that “…[On Climate,] Penn will seek additional ways to support and recruit the best minds; fuel initiatives that advance understanding and promise solutions … for the sake of our future and our planet,” gave Herrmann and fellow colleagues involved with PBL an “opportunity to apply [the program] and transform K-12 climate education”. The online program, which started on September 10, 2024, is approximately 40 hours in length and split into three parts: Explore, Envision and Enact. Throughout all parts, educators will “deepen [their] own understanding of global climate change issues … learn about the principles of project-based learning and sketch out potential project ideas … [and] implement [their] project with [their] students in [their] local context.” One of PBL’s primary intentions is to change the role that students play in engaging with climate-related curriculum. “PBL inspires teachers because it positions their students as active agents who are responding to climate crisis, rather than just learning about it,” Hermann told Penn Today. The program provides two options for participants, a “Free” option that provides a Penn “GSE Certificate of Participation”, with the $750 fee having been waived by the Penn Environmental Innovations Initiative . The second […]