At the beginning of the semester, it was my goal to improve my environmental literacy to benefit myself, and my future students. Coming into this year, I did not have very much experience or education when it came to the environment and environmental education. After taking the survey during the first week, I was able to get an idea of what I needed to become more knowledgeable about. As a result I can honestly say, of all the courses I took this semester, I learned this most in this course.
In an early class lecture, there was a PowerPoint slide that indicated 80% of Americans are heavily influenced by environmental myths. At that point in the semester, I was definitely in that category. However, now that the semester is concluding, I feel I have moved past that. I really feel the guest speakers and discussion activities have a lot to do with this. I also think the Resource Collection activities were very effective as well. Finding dependable resources such as the resource guides and online really was beneficial, and the fact that each of the collections related to the current class unit helped me gain further understanding of the content. As a result, I was able to slowly gain insight on how to educate students of all ages on these environmental topics.
Finally, I felt the peer teaching was a great teaching activity. Not only was it beneficial for the pair of students teaching the lesson, but for the students witnessing the lesson. I definitely gained some ideas about teaching through the lesson I taught, and from the lessons my classmates taught. The feedback was very helpful as well, as it helped me look at my lesson in a different way and think of ways I could have extended it. Overall, I feel I am miles ahead of where I was in the beginning of this semester, and am ready to incorporate environmental concepts in my future classroom.
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