Teachers for the Planet
Program Description
Teachers for the Planet believes that our adult communities should be engaged and empowered to be champions and allies on environmental conservation in schools.
As we continue to amplify initiatives that empower our young leaders, let us also provide opportunities for our adult communities to be involved in our global movements.
Schools provide the ideal environment to inspire and train young conservationists, but doing so involves the input and effort of the whole school community--not just teachers, but also the staff and the administrators. They must also understand why there is a need to empower their students for environmental conservation.
This initiative seeks to make use of a community-based, human-centered design in creating a prototype of an innovative and holistic program that can enhance and intensify environmental efforts in schools. The aim is for the prototype to be scaled, contextualized, and replicated in schools all over the city.
Program Objectives
To create and test a prototype of a program/intervention that can be scaled, contextualized, and replicated in schools across Davao City.
To develop the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes of the school community on environmental conservation, and;
To train a pool of environmental educators to run and facilitate workshops in their own schools as they replicate and scale the intervention/program.
Human-centered and community-based design.
Teachers for the Planet believes in the wisdom and power of communities. The program will follow a community-based, human-centered design that prioritizes the context and needs of each school community. It will provide an opportunity for school community members to dialogue, innovate, and co-create a prototype of an intervention to address the specific needs of their campus.
Together they dream and work on making their campus a better learning space to develop one’s knowledge, behavior, and attitudes towards environmental conservation.
This project is part of the EWC Innovation Fellows 2021 of the East West Center in Hawaii. Check out their program here: EXPERIENTIAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (XPD)
The EWC Innovation for Sustainable Development Fellows (#EWCinnovationfellows) is a ten (10) year opportunity to support EWC alumni striving to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is officially recognized by the United Nations as an SDG Acceleration Action (#SDGAction37761). Non-resident fellows co-design and co-deliver innovation initiatives for the EWC within their organization or company. Fellows are young professionals and EWC Alumni (under age 40) in the arts, environment, education, health, and disaster resilience sectors supported in five (5) modules delivered virtually over the course of five (5) months.
