TERRACE BAY— Each year, the Natural Curiosity Edward Burtynsky Award for Teaching Excellence in Environmental Education honours three outstanding educators across Canada for their exemplary practice in environmental inquiry.
This year, Superior-Greenstone District School Board proudly announced that Chris Dube a teacher at Lake Superior High School, is a recipient of this award.
Dube teaches at Lake Superior High School in Terrace Bay, Ont. and is passionate about creating experiential programming and hands-on learning experiences for students. According to SGDSB, Dube created what is described as a “multi-credit” Outdoor Environmental Science program based on healthy living, outdoor activities and environmental science.
The program is based on hands-on project-based learning activities using Indigenous ways of teaching and learning.
The majority of the course is spent on the land with First Nations members, local community members, peers, and local business and community organizations to learn beyond the school classroom walls, in such a way that students and the community engage collaboratively to develop specific projects.
Dube’s program incorporated four areas of focus:
- Indigenous education
- Community development
- Mental Health and Well-being
- Experiential learning
This approach to learning enabled students to not only understand their role and responsibilities to their community, but also better understand how their projects can have a real impact.
To read Chris Dube’s winning story go to: - https://www.naturalcuriosity.ca/2022ebwinners
