Who are we?
Chris Wright is a teacher from the Mabin School located in Toronto, Ontario. She has travelled extensively and has taught in Australia, Japan, England and Canada. Chris has a passion for integrated Environmental Education and has been known to have many weird and wonderful creatures in her class including snakes, emus and crocodiles.
April McGrath is a PhD student from Carleton University located in Ottawa, Ontario. Her research is focused on the applications of social psychology to environmental problems. In the spring of 2007 she taught an environmental psychology course to a group of junior high school students from local schools in Ottawa.
Ingrid Giesinger is a science teacher at Loretto Abbey in Toronto, although has also taught in the social sciences. Prior to teaching, Ingrid worked at an Environmental Analytical Laboratory as a project manager. She studied in both Chemistry and Primatology at the University of Calgary.
Patricia Brown is a Principal at St. Christopher’s Montessori School located in Victoria, British Columbia. Patricia is originally from Dublin, Ireland and grew up in the Middle East. She is very interested in environmental education and the power of young children to change the world, one step at a time!
Joanne Spadafora is a teacher from the York School located in Toronto, Ontario. She has traveled thourgh various regions of Mexico, Spain and Canada working to build integrated arts and environmental programs through curriculum development in those places. She was unable to join us on this incredible venture as she found out a few weeks before our departure that she was pregnant! Her fundraising efforts contributed to the teams financial goal to support this project. We want to thank her for her efforts and for creating this blog. Although she is unable to join us in Uganda we are sure she is here in spirit.
Uganda faces huge environmental challenges such as deforestation, agriculture intensification and other human threats to endangered primates such as chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.
JGI Uganda works with local schools and communities in areas where prime chimpanzee habitats are found in order to increase awareness about environmental issues.
Therefore, the JGI Uganda, in collaboration with JGI Canada, has developed a teacher-training workshop targeting primary-school teachers. The interactive and highly-collaborative workshop focuses on developing lesson plans, games and activities about the environment that children can understand. The Uganda teachers then go back to their schools and train other teachers.
For further information kindly visit:http://www.janegoodall.ca/
