Register: https://stemteachersnyc.org/climate-change-microcredential/

9-Credit Microcredential for Teachers in NYC

In early 2023 STEMteachersNYC and City College of New York began collaborating on and inviting partners to contribute to a nine credit microcredential to ground teachers in Climate Change, Systems Thinking and Sustainability content, pedagogy, and a range of vetted tools, lessons and units already in use across NYC schools. Coursework shall be application and practice-based, leveraging current events through the Ecology Disrupted curriculum, to help prepare teachers to be confident, knowledgeable, and equipped to not only teach about Climate Change, but create and respond to events and teaching contexts with appropriate resources and new material. Coursework will comprise:

Science Content – Systems and resilience focused course work; participating teachers will engage with scientists and researchers in the field, grade appropriate datasets, examining down and upstream networks of causes and effects.

Teaching Resources and Tools – Participants will engage directly with tool and curriculum developers.

Real, Vetted Teaching Connections –Will include student work, PBL strategies, real world examples – engage with colleagues already teaching about Climate Change in their classrooms.

In-person Fieldwork – Teachers and students will step into field research across the five boroughs, through the lens of local NYC nonprofit partners involved in climate science and education.

Tuition is covered for public school teachers, thanks to generous support from ConEd!