We invite First Year Seminar faculty to join us for a brown bag workshop focused on supporting you in teaching this year’s Common Reading Program book selection, a climate change book. Complete this registration form by Friday, Sept. 13 to reserve your spot and to help us tailor the workshop to FYS instructors’ needs.
For some of you, this may be your first experience addressing climate change in the classroom. We’ll tailor the workshop to registrants’ needs, which may include: providing an accessible primer on climate change, recommending activities/resources for climate teaching, and leading a group discussion to share ideas on things like handling difficult conversations, making space for the emotional dimensions of teaching and learning about planetary crisis, and engaging students in ways that grow their sense of climate response-ability*.
Speakers Anindita Das and Laura England have each taught about climate change for more than a decade, and Anindita teaches climate change through First Year Seminar.
*Climate response-ability is having the knowledge, skills and a sense of efficacy to envision and implement positive climate action in our professions and communities. Positive climate actions help us to reduce and adapt to the problems of climate change in ways that promote equity and resilience.
This year’s Common Reading Program book selection is The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, from acclaimed scientist and author Hope Jahren, chronicles the exponential growth in various dimensions of the human enterprise in recent centuries, associated impacts on the climate and other Earth systems, and how we can create a more safe and healthy climate future.