Green Up: Activating Young Minds
Green Up: Activating Young Minds is a six-week online course for educators in youth development from Kyiv and the Kyiv region from America House Kyiv. Learn how to implement project-based eco-learning in classrooms and beyond, stimulate eco-awareness and English-language learning in youth audiences, and encourage the next generation of changemakers.
The program will provide a framework that integrates English language education and project-based learning, as applied to different instructional and cultural contexts such as the United States and Ukraine. Over the six weeks, participants will learn the principles of sustainability, review past projects, use tools and inquiry methods to construct a project proposal, identify and use resources to build their projects, and transform and evaluate the results of their implemented project.
The goal of this series is for participants to create their own Eco-PBL (Eco-Project Based Learning) project that empowers youth to become environmental stewards advocating on a global stage to confront climate change.
Apply if you are:
An educator, program manager or a facilitator of youth-focused programs currently working in Kyiv or the Kyiv region.
Interested in discovering project-based learning approaches to apply in a variety of educational and development settings.
Explore Eco-Project Based Learning (Eco-PBL) as a method of English language learning.
Looking for new ways to incorporate eco-topics into youth-oriented activities.
Put theory into practice by creating your own Eco-PBL program as part of the course.
Open to new professional connections and engaging with a wider community of educators.
The deadline to register: April 13, 10:00 AM, Kyiv time.
Selected candidates will be informed by Monday, April 17.
This 6-session virtual workshop series will take place weekly on Thursdays between 5:00 PM & 6:00 PM Kyiv time from April 20th through May 25th.
The program will be held in English.
Participants are eligible to receive a certificate of completion from America House Kyiv by fulfilling the following criteria:
Attend at least 4 six sessions of the program.
Complete all activities part of the course, including final presentation.
Complete a program survey.
About the facilitator:
Meagan is currently the English Language Resident at America House. She is an experienced English-language teacher and facilitator with a BA in International Studies and German from Northern Michigan University and MA in International Studies and Education from Concordia University in Irvine, California. She has experience working for the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for the US Department of State as a Virtual English Language Fellow, training pre-service and in-service English language professionals from the Philippines, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Algeria.
About the organizer:
America House Kyiv (AHK) is a cultural center and your main resource for American culture, education, and information in the Kyiv region. AHK organizes a wide range of activities, including English-language programs, skill-building workshops, cultural events, art exhibitions, concerts and more. Work and think creatively, build cultural bridges and become a changemaker at our network of America Houses in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa.
