GS Pitch
This pitch is a new approach to teaching a visual arts unit that in the past has had a strong focus on skills and technique and less on meaning. Portraiture through a new lens, driven by activism.
This pitch is a new approach to teaching a visual arts unit that in the past has had a strong focus on skills and technique and less on meaning. Portraiture through a new lens, driven by activism.
Extending course concepts, I propose to host a regional student-led sustainability conference-camp, a ‘campference’ at my school (Green School New Zealand) with the hope of bringing together the next generation of change-makers.
Hierarchy is a system which has been prevalent since the dawn of time. It is something we see rein from the animal kingdom through to the corporate world. Why is hierarchy necessary and why is it preached within schools? By breaking down these walls and providing equality amongst all we create a schooling system where …
The students learned about the litter monster, through story to explore litter- what it is, it’s impact on the environment, what can we do to help.
How do we grow a love of nature amongst our youngest children in a highly scheduled, landscaped, urban environment? This pitch proposes a very small step that could help us keep moving in the right direction.
Come let us help children fall in love with the magic of Nature before getting involved in the action plan! Such a powerful strategy! As David Sobel puts it beautifully,” If we really want children to flourish, we need to give them timeto connect with nature and love the Earth before we ask them to …
We are starting a community garden at our Elementary School. Join me as I share with parents what we will be doing, how it will impact student learning and how parents can learn along with us.
In this short piece I wanted to share some reflections and changes that I am making to my teaching in response to the material covered on the course. I also wanted to share my methods of implementing this into a very traditional school setting to encourage others to be part of the change.
My pitch is a about embodying the concepts learned in the Green Educators course in order to be the models of a societal change we want to see in the world.
What is happening to our planet is because we havent as hmuman being relfcet of our acts, weve been inmersed in a prdocce produce proce recoltion that make us have no time to stop and see and think about the consecuencces so yes thats a very compelling reason of why we need to introduce reflection …