So often what we hear about climate change are messages of doom and hopelessness. While there are certainly real reasons for concern, an optimistic outlook that we can solve hard problems is critical to motivating action. In your classroom, how do you talk about climate change in a way that’s both realistic and inspires students to believe there’s actually something they can do about it?
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I think this is a really important post Molly Sinnott , and a really important conversation for teachers to have when heading into the Climate Project, or really any unit about a modern world problem. There was an article published in Edutopia years ago that stuck with me, about encouraging optimism in the classroom. It was geared more toward elementary students, and more in line with promoting a growth mindset, however, students' world view is shaped by their self-concept so it makes sense to start with the students themselves. The article basically advocated helping students reframe and rephrase pessimistic statements into more optimistic ones by modeling, providing sentence stems, etc.
I'm wondering now if that's something I should include at the start of a unit on Climate Change.
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This is a great article Julianne Horowitz and I think really highlights that a sense of agency and power is something that's applicable to learning about climate change, but can also be carried with them to other subjects and their broader lives.
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This is a great article Julianne Horowitz and I think really highlights that a sense of agency and power is something that's applicable to learning about climate change, but can also be carried with them to other subjects and their broader lives.
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