Expand your teaching toolkit with classroom-ready environmental education strategies. This flexible, online professional development opportunity combines core environmental concepts with practical approaches to experiential learning, curriculum integration, and meaningful engagement.
RegisterWhat is a Microcredential
A series of carefully curated learning activities that provide learners with opportunities to gain specific skills or competencies that are workforce relevant and valued by employers, without enrolling in a credential program. The outcome can be shared digitally and allows employers to easily identify candidates who have mastered a specific skill set for success in their industry.
What to expect from the program
Learn core concepts in climate literacy, sustainability, environmental justice, accessibility, and Indigenous perspectives while exploring how to apply them in environmental education. Through online anytime learning, reflection, and case studies, you'll complete your microcredential ready to:
- Integrate environmental justice, accessibility, and Indigenous perspectives into environmental learning.
- Apply environmental education concepts and practices across subject areas.
- Use outdoor learning, nature journaling, and other experiential approaches to support engagement and learning.
- Connect environmental learning to curriculum outcomes and assessment practices.
- Strengthen reflective teaching practices that support environmental and climate literacy.
- Support learner action and help them explore connections to sustainability and green careers.
Who is this program for?
This program is open to anyone interested in environmental education and is especially relevant for:
- Pre-service education students
- Pre-school and out-of-school care educators
- K–12 teachers
- Home educators and homeschooling families
- Subject matter or curriculum consultants
- Educational assistants, administrators, and other school staff
- Non-formal educators, including those in museums, nature centres, NGOs, and youth programs
Program requirements
While this program is open to anyone regardless of experience and education, we recommend you meet the following:
- Secondary school completion
- English Proficiency of CLB 6 and above
We recommend a level of technical competence which includes proficiency in:
- Navigating the Internet
- Using word processing programs like Microsoft Word
Register for the program
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