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Experience Environmental Education in a classroom without walls!
"Recent Approaches to Env Ed EDL673 and CRN 40738:
Dates: July 9-13, 2012
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Pleasantville Campus
Instructor: Angelo Spillo, MPA
Angelo Spillo has been Director of the Pace University Environmental Center since 1980 and serves as an adjunct faculty member. He has been teaching Environmental Studies courses for over 20 years and is also the Academic Coordinator for Environmental Studies on the Pace Pleasantville campus. Mr. Spillo serves on numerous committees including Pace’s sustainability committee and is currently conducting research on student perceptions about sustainability. He has been awarded several grants supporting environmental in-service teachers programs. Recently he has established an ongoing collaboration with the Ossining School system and has been teaching environmental studies programs for the Yonkers and Croton School systems.
Perhaps New York City is not the laboratory for you to explore the shaping of environmental inquiry. You teach in NYC or an urban area and you need to reconnect to the excitement of teaching in a manner that brings the subject matter to life.
On the sprawling, bucolic Pleasantville, NY campus of Pace University, join educators for this exciting unique course on environmental education. Pace faculty in conjunction with experts in the field will explore with students a wide range of current environmental topics in a way relevant to them. This program will combine theory with hands-on field study and experiences designed to enhance elementary school teachers’ understanding of environmental studies, but all are welcome to attend. Field trips will supplement classroom discussions and the seminar will be held on the Pace University Pleasantville campus taking advantage of the diverse qualities including an on-campus nature center, modern labs, extensive library, and a campus rich in a variety of flora and fauna. The outdoors is your classroom!
Three graduate credits will be given to those who successfully complete the program.