The DEEPER guide aims to support and inspire faculty, staff and students to broaden and deepen the implementation of environmental education in initial teacher education programs across the province. It grew out of a provincial roundtable held in May of 2013 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. This event brought together sixty participants, including faculty and pre-service students from twelve Ontario universities, educators from school boards and representatives from NGOs, all focused on deepening the study and practice of environmental education in initial teacher education programs across Ontario.

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Chapter 1. Deepening Environmental Education in Initial Teacher Education -- Chapter 2. The Roots of Environmental Education in Initial Teacher Education -- Tracing the Roots of Environmental Education -- Environmental Education in Canada -- Environmental Education in Initial Teacher Education in Canada -- Environmental Education in Ontario -- Environmental Education in Initial Teacher Education in Ontario -- Chapter 3. A Vision for Environmental Education in Ontario Initial Teacher Education -- Core Competencies in Environmental Education -- Core Competencies in Environmental Education for Ontario Teacher Candidates -- Chapter 4.Growing Strategies and Cultivating Practices -- Building Support for Environmental Education.-- Identify partners -- Support existing visions -- - Collect baseline data -- Be the change: Establish a network -- Build capacity over time -- Locate funding -- Connect with external partners -- Share your successes-- Integrating Environmental Education into Initial Teacher Education Programs: Integrate within courses -- Integrate across courses -- Integrate with faculty initiatives. -- Implement a variety of pathways -- Using the Community as Classroom -- Model community-based learning -- Make it experiential: Focus on inquiry -- Take it outside -- Facilitate activism -- Rooting Environmental Education in Practica: Chapter 4. Growing Partnerships -- Partnering with school boards -- Partnering with NGOs -- Partnering with sponsors: Deepening Environmental Education Across a Faculty of Education: Offer environmental education courses.-- Complement with co-curricular learning -- Develop an environmental education certificate program -- Facilitate faculty professional development: Build environmental education into the faculty’s infrastructure -- Support environmental education through continuing education -- Investigate environmental education through research -- Chapter 5. Indicators of Growth -- Chapter 6. Going DEEPER -- References -- Resources -- Books on environmental education -- Teachers’ book and guides -- TED environmental talks -- Articles on environmental education and initial teacher education -- Environmental education policy documents -- Environmental education associations -- Environmental education organizations and NGOs -- Funding organizations for environmental education -- iCanadaCanada -- Appendices -- Appendix A û Definition of Environmental Education Traditions -- Appendix B û Environmental Education Practices in Ontario Faculties of Education -- Appendix C û Summaries of Core Competencies in Environmental Education for Teacher Candidates -- Appendix D û Learning in/about/for the Environment Overview -- Appendix E û Syllabi for Environmental Education Courses in Ontario.