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Environmental Sustainability Education Certificate
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Environmental Sustainability Education Certificate
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At a Glance
PreK–12 teachers can enhance their instruction with this interdisciplinary certificate. New Jersey was the first state to integrate climate change standards across school content, and this certificate prepares you to integrate these standards into your instruction. You’ll also deepen your knowledge related to environmental sustainability in education.
Program Coordinator: Lauren Madden, maddenl@tcnj.edu
Duration
- part time: 1.5–2 years
Availability
- hybrid and off-site cohorts*
Requirement
- current teaching certificate
4
- courses
12
- credits
$1170.17
- per credit
Who Should Pursue This Program?
This four-course, 12-credit graduate certificate is ideal if you’re a practicing preK–12 teacher and want to transform your teaching practice with interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental sustainability education.
Engaged Faculty
Learn from nationally and internationally recognized faculty who are fully engaged with their students. Your professor knows your name and teaches all of your classes. You won’t find any TAs here.
Extensive Network
Study alongside peers with solid education experience, learn from faculty who have valuable contacts in their field, and benefit from an alumni community with strong professional connections.
Application Requirements
For your application to be considered complete, you must submit the online application as well as all supplemental documents.
Recommended Application Deadlines
We consider applications on a space-available basis. You can apply up to and including the first day of the semester.
Curriculum
Practicing teachers across the preK-12 spectrum can enhance their instruction with this interdisciplinary graduate certificate. This program helps teachers to deepen their content knowledge in Environmental Sustainability Education (ESE) and develop the skills and tools they need to become green leaders in their schools. This four-course graduate certificate is designed for practicing preK-12 teachers who wish to transform their teaching practice with interdisciplinary perspectives on Environmental Sustainability Education. Coursework is focused on applying knowledge and designing solutions to many of the challenges we face in our classrooms and in the world.
Select any THREE of the following four courses:
- ESED 501: Environmental Science for Teachers and Leaders
This 3-credit graduate course, offered through TCNJ’s School of Education, will provide you with the tools and know-how to grow green thinkers in your classrooms. - ESED 520: Issues in Environmental Sustainability Education
This course takes a blended hybrid format with a combination of face-to-face and electronic class sessions focused on exploring issues in environmental sustainability education, arts-based strategies for exploring scientific problems, and exploring the use of the arts and humanities for communicating and debating scientific information. - ESED 600: Advanced Topics in Environmental Sustainability Education
This course takes a blended hybrid format with a combination of face-to-face and electronic class sessions focused on current events and topics in environmental sustainability education and environmental careers. Use of universal design for learning (UDL) in environmental and sustainability education in both formal and informal settings will be central to all aspects of the course. This course includes a student-designed capstone project to synthesize ideas across all courses in the ESED graduate certificate. - STEM 641: Biotechnology Systems and Sustainable Design
This course introduces students to the world of environmental and biotechnology systems for K-12 STEM/ engineering education at the intersection of the designed and natural worlds.
The fourth course in this 12-credit graduate certificate program can be any of the courses above OR a selection from those listed below:
- EDUC 510: Exploration of Reflective Teaching (a course offered through the RTC program)
- PBHG 504: Environmental and Occupational Health (a course offered through the graduate program in Public Health)
- PBHG 678: Water, Land, and Air: Critical issues in Global Environmental Health (a course offered through the graduate program in Public Health)
- ELEM/SCED 663: Advanced Trends in Education (a course offered by the Global Graduate Programs)
Tuition/Aid
We offer the same tuition rates no matter where you live. And there are a range of financial aid and assistantship options for TCNJ graduate students.
Accreditation
The College of New Jersey School of Education is a member in good standing of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP).
