Dec 05 2008
A Brief Report about the First Phase of my Action Plan,”Global Citizens’ Environmental Club”
I am so glad that I took up the assignment of developing an environmental club in my school. It’s great working with students. Their enthusiasm, their involvement and their keenness to make a difference keeps our hopes alive.
There are twenty club members working with me on my action plan. Interestingly when I shared with them the name of the club “Young Citizens Environmental Club”, they suggested to replace ‘young’ with ‘global’ because they said that they are citizen of the global community and would like to contribute at a larger level. In order to give ownership to the members, the club is now named as per their suggestion “Global Citizens’ Environmental Club”.
I have already completed the first phase of my action plan in which I have facilitated teachers and students in developing their theoretical understanding about environment and environmental issues. I want to acknowledge the support of Mary Ann McGary, who on our request (I and my PELI friend Sarah Gardezi) forwarded a very relevant website regarding environmental club. I also wish to acknowledge our facilitator Ms Unaeza Alvi,at the Aga Khan University-Institute for Educational Development, whom I met in order to take her suggestions about successful implementation of my action plan. She was very supportive, she shared with me the resource material and study guide on environmental education. I take help from both these resources and other websites in order to plan my activities.In the second phase students will be now engaged in planning and conducting school wide activities to raise awareness.
In the pictures given below, club members are working in groups to design logo for the club. I have also given them Journals and have encouraged them to write reflections regularly. The members will focus on their learning as a result of their involvement in club activities. I see two benefits of students’ reflections. First, it will enable me to gauge their understanding about environmental issues, secondly, it will help the club members to keep a track of their activities, successes and challenges. Let me add, that I am using grant money to buy the resource, and am really thankful to PSU-PELI, for giving us this facility to implement plans with much ease.
Rakshanda



























