Transcript Moving From: Getting the Right Answers to Asking the Right

Moving From:
Getting the Right Answers
to
Asking the Right Questions
Presentation to:
Faculty of Education: University of Regina
Educational Professional Studies 100
“Colleagues”
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
2:30 to 3:45 p.m.
Education 191
by:
Lyle A. M. Benko
Co-Coordinator
U.N.U. RCE Saskatchewan
and
President
L*A*M*B*
Environmental & Educational
Consulting (Inc.)
I.
Introduction:
a) My background: “Smart Bunny
or
Dumb Ass”
b) Your perspective as a “learner” will
impact your “teacher/learner” model
and possibly the impact on your future
students
II. Asking the RIGHT Questions:
(What are the right answers?)
ACTIVITY: A tree and a light: What do
they have in common?
Further considerations:
a) SASKPOWER PGI Shand Greenhouse
http://shand.saskpower.com/shand
b) Canadian Tire “Eco/Green Commercial
III. “Sustaining” Our Future:
What are the issues?
Climate Change: Is it real or is it
just “An Inconvenient Truth”?
From the Skeptics to the Scientists
with the politicians debating the
facts from the “factoids”?
*Climate Change Saskatchewan Facts:
www.climatechangesask.com
IV. “Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
Activity: “Two oranges & a banana”
a) What is “Sustainable Development?”
b) What is “sustainability”?
“Meeting the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs.” (U.N. 1987)
“ Living today while learning lessons
from our ancestors of the past and borrowing
the future from our grandchildren.”
c) What is your role as and individual?
d) What is your role as a professional educator?
V. A “Teacher” Model or a “Model” Teacher?
a) What does it mean to be a teacher today?
b) Will you become a “Science” teacher or
a “teacher” of Science?
c) Will you become a teacher of ……..?
QUOTE: Students don’t “care” what
you “know”, they just want
to “know” that you “care!”
VI. From “Awareness” to “Action”:
Your role as an educator?
Activity: Balancing the Stool and
Helping Hands!
a) Economy vs Environment?
Example: Tofino, B.C.
b) Balancing the Stool:
Economy/Society/Environment/Culture
*Craik Sustainable Living Project*
www.craikecovillage.ca
c) Ecological Footprint: Royal Saskatchewan Museum
www.royalsaskmuseum.ca
d) Youth Action Forums and “Action Projects”
e) “Train the Trainer IV” U of R Faculty of Education 2009?
VII. Sources of Resources:
a) Youth Action Projects and Ecological Footprint:
www.royalsaskmuseum.ca
b) Climate Change Saskatchewan:
www.climatechangesask.ca
c) Saskatchewan Ministry of Education: Grade 10
Science Unit on Sustainability:
www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/xsci/
d) United Nations Decade on ESD:
www.ias.unu.edu/
e) Saskatchewan ESD Network (SESDN)
www.saskesd.ca
f) GREENLIFE (SCN)
www.scn.ca/greenlife.php
g) Regional Centre Of Expertise Saskatchewan
www.saskrce.ca
VIII. Questions:
“Moving from getting the
right ANSWERS to
Asking the right QUESTIONS!”
>>>>YOUR TURN<<<<
IX: Evaluations (Optional)
Your professors will have
an “Evaluation Form” that
may be completed at their
discretion.
Follow-up contact:
[email protected]
X: Closure:
“I teach: I touch the future”
-Christa McAuliffe (1948 – 1986)
“We SUSTAIN the future by
our ACTIONS as teachers.”
-Lyle Benko (1950 - )