Interdisciplinary Climate Justice Teaching Squares

Interdisciplinary Climate Justice Teaching Squares allow faculty to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on climate justice and community and civic engagements, and integrate them into their teaching. This is an expanded teaching square: it involves two more meetings than a standard teaching square, development of a climate justice lesson, and working through Canvas modules prior to meetings that offer an overview of climate justice and community and civic engagement. Meetings focus on an in-depth introduction to climate justice, followed by an exploration of community and civic engagement, then a brainstorming activity to initiate lesson development, and finally presentation of your climate justice lesson plan to the teaching square. Faculty then observe one class session of each teaching square member to gain perspective on how climate justice might be integrated into different disciplines. During the last meeting, faculty offer supportive feedback on their lesson observations. Conversations with other faculty and observations of other courses will give faculty ideas to apply in their own courses.

Last Updated May 25, 2022