Friday, February 27, 12:00 PM (noon) Central Time / 1:00 PM Eastern Time

What impacts preservice teachers’ decisions to get students outside? How is self-efficacy developed in preservice teachers through teacher preparation programs? Join this session to learn about related current research.

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Guest Presenter

Becky Schnekser is a current PhD Candidate in Sustainability Education at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She received her BS in Elementary Education and MS in Curriculum and Instruction from Longwood University in Farmville, VA. Becky has been a teacher for 19 years, with 17 years of experience in the classroom and two years at a museum. Every summer since 2018, she has completed a field season in the Peruvian Amazon as the Education Lead for the Boiling River Project, alongside PhD Candidate and National Geographic Explorer Andres Ruzo, to bring place and phenomenon-based STEM education to classrooms. In 2021, she published Expedition Science: Empowering Learners Through Exploration, a book meant to inspire and motivate classroom teachers to think differently about how learners are engaged in classrooms and beyond. Her entire career as a teacher has been dedicated to engaging learners in powerful and empowering learning experiences that utilize experiential methodology in outdoor contexts. In 2023, she began her PhD to investigate what impacts preservice teachers’ decisions to utilize school-based outdoor experiential education (SBOEE). This pursuit led her to examine how self-efficacy is developed in preservice teachers through teacher preparation programs, particularly in SBOEE. She is especially interested in how exposure to SBOEE in teacher preparation programs impacts preservice teachers three to five years into their careers in the classroom. 

This webinar is funded by ee360+ (a consortium of 26 partners led by the North American Association for Environmental Education.)