Community Educator
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Provided by: Sustainability Ambassadors|Published on: February 23, 2024
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Synopsis
- This resource is a six-page informational brochure about the community educator career path, including a detailed job description and a spotlight on an individual with this career from Seattle, Washington.
- Students will learn the average salary, educational background, necessary skills, and responsibilities of a community educator.
Subjects: Social Studies, Career Skills
Authors: Sustainability Ambassadors
Region: North America, USA - West, United States, Washington
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- Selena Ligrano shares candid insight into the career path that will help students decide if community education is something they are interested in pursuing.
- The resource emphasizes the importance of following your passion in your career choice.
Additional Prerequisites
- The Garden Hotline link on page three is broken.
- Some students, especially English language learners, may need the terms prerequisite, horticulture, ecology, networking, and others defined before reading the article.
Differentiation
- Students can identify organizations in their area that, similar to Tilth, are working in community education related to climate change.
- Using Selena Ligrano as an example, students can journal about their work experiences and passions and how these might fit with this career or other green career paths.
- English language arts classes can use this resource to practice reading informational text.
- Social studies classes can use this resource to discuss career paths as a means to solve societal problems like climate change.
- Classes with limited time or students with low reading stamina can read the narrative as a class and assign sections of the article as a jigsaw activity.
This resource from Sustainability Ambassadors introduces students to the community educator career in general before turning to a personal narrative of Selena Ligrano, who works as a community educator and operates a "garden hotline" in Seattle, Washington. The text is exceedingly clear, laying out the necessary education and skills to be a community educator and what the job looks like day to day. This resource provides an excellent description of an impactful green career and is recommended for teaching.
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