PROJECT NATURECONNECT
Greenwich University
Applied Ecopsycology/Integrated Ecology
ORIENTATION COURSE
©Copyright 1996 Michael J. Cohen
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ECO 500 Elements of Global Citizenship:
Part Nine COURSE EVALUATION AND ACTION PROCEDURES |
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ATTENTION: IGE-IUPS degree program applicants afteer this evaluation you should submit your application to the Graduate Student Cooperative so you may start your degree program courses.
The following five activities provide additional global ecology citizenship insights and understandings by involving you in evaluating and communicating your experiences on this course. Evaluation Activity One: REQUIRED A. Please write and share with the interact group a short one paragraph statement that conveys what you know and feel to be of attractive value of this course for yourself and others. B. Please complete a Course Evaluation Form by copying it from this linked web page and emailing it.
CREDIT REMINDER: . An Optional One Credit (transferable) is available from Portland State University Extended Studies once you have completed this course and its evaluation. Let the office know <nature@interisalnd.net> that you want to take the course for credit, get permission to do so, and then obtain a Credit Application Form by sending a blank email to <creditpsu@sendfree.com>. Closely follow the instructions on the form.
Evaluation Activity Two (optional): The Growth Measurement Indicator: It is often useful to have a means to measure how far we have progressed or grown in an area of interest that is new to us. For this reason, with reference to the course material , you may optionally measure changes in your knowledge of it by applying the Growth Measurement Indicator now and compare it to the results you optionally obtained with it at the beginning of the course. You may also use it now for the first time and then again at the end of an additional next course you take. It may be helpful in you determining and/or validating what you've learned and discovering new directions and areas to concentrate on.
Evaluation Activity 2A: (optional) Those of you who learned to use the SUMMARY agreement indicators may find them beneficial in evaluating your growth and development in future courses and web visits. There is another helpful growth indicator that you can use to numerically evaluate your progress in mastering the Natural Systems Thinking Process: Determine your
Evaluation Activity 2B: REQUIRED Write a paragraph or two as to what you find to be the value of this psychological webstring approach in helping the vast population who, along with the environment, suffer the effects of their thinking's disconnection from nature.
Evaluation Notice: Strengthen your life skills by validating them. Don't let your education go to waste. Read and react to the following:
More often than not Person 2 will get the position because they can document that they have been educated or trained. If you have a Bachelor's degree, are interested in webstring teaching/counseling and have appropriate experiences as a teacher, counselor, parent etc. you may evaluate and write these experiences up as life experience courses you have taken that will:
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COURSE COMPLETION NOTE: Your schedule of implimenting the Evaluation and Action activities beyond this point depends upon how you plan to use this course.
Evaluation Activity Three: Help organize your interact group to create a shared set of evaluation and grade criteria that critically measure a student's growth and expertise in this course. Help group members apply these standards to themselves and present their self-evaluation and grade to the interact group. Help interact members consentually modify their grade and evaluation based on input from the group until a consensus for their grade is reached by all. Help involve them in helping others modify their grade and evaluation by consent.
Evaluation Activity Four: Write an attractive title and 30 word description for an introductory applied ecopsychology workshop that the student could present. Write an attractive 5 word maximum title and 15 word encapsualization of the course that the student could submit as a WWW link to the course and/or themselves on the internet. Submit your titles and descriptions to their interact group. Appropriately consider and incorporate improvement suggestions from their interact group into your workshop title and description. Help other interact group members improve their titles and descriptions so they work well Successfully select, submit, and have their WWW link incorporated in 5 appropriate internet websites of their choice on the WWW checking to first see if a link already exists.
Evaluation Activity Five: REQUIRED Write a 3 page scholarly paper relative to participating in this course in a manner that integrates, validates and contributes important concepts and ideas to the profession or general field of global citizenship psychology. Identify what to you are the most important parts of this course and, quoting some of the dialogue in your interact email group, shows how the course helps people, including yourself, become involved with these parts to the benefit of themselves and Earth. Submit the paper to your interact group and add their reactions to it on a separate page.
Evaluation Activity Six: Make Up a Test: Based on the readings and learnings from the activities, make up a final test for the course consisting of at least 10 true or false questions and 10 multiple choice questions. See if you can get some folks in your interact group to take the test and add to it or help improve it if they can. You will learn a great deal from doing this evaluation.
NEXT STEP: Take me to the Orientation Course Activities Page
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What you can do:
The Orientation Course, below, responds to 32 critical life relationship questions. They are answered by enabling you to enjoy and then share online ten authentic, sensory, Nature connected attraction experiences over a 12 day to 5-week period.
Sign the Earth Day Petition for Peace on Earth Through Peace With Earth and put to use the Earth Day Activity
THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY AND TEACH SELF-EVIDENT ATTRACTION EXPERIENCES IS THE NATURAL SYSTEMS THINKING PROCESS:
ORIENTATION COURSE: Psychological Elements of Global Citizenship
The Science of Connecting With the Web of Life
The Art of Thinking With NatureAn exciting, inexpensive ($35) blend of shared, online activity, information and training with credit optional. Learn by doing. Become a practitioner anywhere. This is a free course if it meets your needs, a transferable prerequisite for additional courses, degrees and participation. The course is our best, most complete and useful way to help nature restore the good nature of humanity in contemporary society. It opens new vistas in academics, counseling, careers, spirit and wellness, vistas that recycle and purify destructive thinking. Optional Credit $42.00
READ AND TEACH THIS ANTIDOTE FOR APATHY
Einstein's World: Natural Attractions, Intelligences and Sanity A non-fiction, metaphor, book and reading course. It helps you reverse nature disconnection disorders from your home. You can take it, teach it and be paid, too. Book $15.00, Course $20.00. Optional Credit $42.00
EXPLORE THE PROCESS
FREE: Our Exploratory Course online enables you to sample the Natural Systems Thinking Process to learn, first hand, its thrust and benefits.
INSTITUTE OF GLOBAL EDUCATION Special NGO consultant United Nations Economic and Social Council PROJECT NATURECONNECT Readily available online tools for the health of person, planet and spirit
P.O. Box 1605 Friday Harbor, WA 98250 360-378-6313 www.ecopsych.com
APPLIED ECOPSYCHOLOGY IN ACTIONThe Natural Systems Thinking Process
Dr. Michael J. Cohen, Director
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nature@interisland.net
Nature Connected Education and Counseling Courses and Degrees Online
Too often we suffer and feel helpless because the deterioration of humanity and the environment hurts us and we are unaware of its cause.
Research demonstrates that the stress arising from our extreme sensory separation from our nurturing origins in Nature underlies most of our unsolvable personal, social, and global problems.In a democracy, to reach our hopes and dreams the knowledge we discover must be accompanied by a readily available educational process that motivates and enables the public to apply the knowledge.
With respect to our destructive disconnection from nature, the web page links, below, empower you to use and teach an effective rehabilitating process that will help you improve most settings and relationships.
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Experience first hand the benefits of the process via our Orientation Course
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