Dobong-gu, Recruiting Community Educators for Climate Crisis Response

Recruiting 15 Participants Until March 22, Final Selection After April Training... Final Selected Receive 'Dobong-gu Climate and Environment Resident Instructor' Certificate, Serve as Resident Education Instructors and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Facilitators

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Dobong-gu (Mayor Dongjin Lee) is recruiting citizen education instructors for lifecycle climate crisis response to help residents respond to the climate crisis until March 22.

The district is recruiting 15 people (including 20 preliminary successful candidates) until March 22, and after passing the first document screening, residents will undergo a training course and interview throughout April to be finally selected as citizen education instructors.

The selected citizens will serve as specialized instructors for Dobong-gu climate and environment citizen education in 2021.

Dobong-gu, a carbon-neutral leading autonomous district that announced the ‘2050 Dobong-gu Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy’ on September 10 last year to reduce 1,342 tons of greenhouse gases by 2050 and realize a carbon-neutral green city, has prepared this program as part of activating ‘green education,’ one of the seven strategies of the greenhouse gas reduction strategy.

The education will be conducted at the Dobong Environmental Education Center, a hub for environmental education in the northeastern region, and the program consists of a total of 10 sessions (20 hours) designed to allow theory and practice for the entire process of special lectures by professional instructors and class preparation.

In particular, the classes will use the Microteaching method, where participants conduct mock classes with lesson plans they directly planned, and experts provide real-time feedback on the entire process including preparation, teaching, and evaluation stages.

The entire training course is free, and the final selected candidates will receive a ‘Dobong-gu Climate and Environment Citizen Instructor’ certificate and have the opportunity to work as climate crisis education instructors for local schools and organizations.

The district plans to provide opportunities for outstanding activists to continue their activities in 2022.

The citizens selected this time will participate as climate and environment education instructors for infants, youth, and adults until December, conducting both on-site and online education, as well as carrying out various activities such as resident publicity and campaigns to raise awareness of climate crisis response.

Furthermore, the district expects them to fulfill their role as environmental guardians in homes and communities as the frontline workforce for training 30,000 greenhouse gas reduction facilitators, which is the core of activating Dobong-gu’s ‘green education.’

Those wishing to participate can download the application form from the Dobong-gu website’s notice board and submit it via email (hyunmu2001@dobong.go.kr).

Mayor Dongjin Lee of Dobong-gu said, “As local residents’ interest in the environment, including climate change, has increased significantly, the demand for related education at schools and village levels has greatly increased. Marking 2021 as the first year of the new climate regime, our district plans to actively promote various support projects for climate crisis response, so we hope many people interested in practicing energy saving and spreading consensus on climate change response will apply.”

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