Educator Workshops
April & May 2013
The Outdoors is a Powerful Teaching Tool
Connect your students to the best classroom in the world: NATURE! Join colleagues for hands-on workshops that infuse an innate understanding of teaching and learning in the outdoors. Committed to excellence in the field of education, Heritage Museums & Gardens offers workshops that enrich classrooms with connections to nature. CEUs or PDPs are available for these workshops.
All of the following programs are being held at Heritage Museums & Gardens, 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, MA, 02563. For a full schedule of workshops for 2013, click here. For additional information, please contact Tobey Eugenio at [email protected] or 508.888.3300 x. 159.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Fee: $40 for one workshop, $70 for both workshops
Using Your Outdoor Classroom, 9am - 12pm
Experience interesting techniques for using outdoor classrooms as an integral part of children's daily learning. Find out how well-designed spaces facilitate healthy physical, emotional, intellectual and social development in a variety of settings (from schools to early childhood programs in public spaces). Discover strategies for assessing children's learning, meeting teaching standards, alleviating challenging behaviors and bringing more joy to learning.
Documenting Children's Learning with Nature, 1pm - 4pm
Discover effective methods for supporting and documenting children's learning indoors and outdoors and for helping children with behavioral challenges and verbal-language delays become more successful. Learn how to "listen" to children's visual-spatial language, and explore helpful tips for successfully using a documentation tool called "Nature Notes" to record children's learning in outdoor classrooms.
Click here to register for one or both of these workshops.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Fee: $40 for one workshop, $70 for both workshops
The Importance of Visual-Spatial Learning, 9am - 12pm
Discover tools for providing more authentic learning opportunities for children in both built and natural environments and through purposeful movement. Gain a deeper understanding of why visual-spatial learning is important and how the visual-spatial learner is often misunderstood. Explore techniques for supporting each child's unique talents and abilities, and ways to use the natural world as a link to oral and written literacy.
The Arts and Nature, 1pm - 4pm
Discover engaging art experiences inspired by nature that help children make deeper connections with the world around them. Experience the Look-Move-Build-Sketch planning tool that encourages multifaceted arts exploration. Learn helpful strategies for supporting each child's individual needs, especially children with sensory integration challenges.
Click here to register for one or both of these workshops.
April & May 2013
The Outdoors is a Powerful Teaching Tool
Connect your students to the best classroom in the world: NATURE! Join colleagues for hands-on workshops that infuse an innate understanding of teaching and learning in the outdoors. Committed to excellence in the field of education, Heritage Museums & Gardens offers workshops that enrich classrooms with connections to nature. CEUs or PDPs are available for these workshops.
All of the following programs are being held at Heritage Museums & Gardens, 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, MA, 02563. For a full schedule of workshops for 2013, click here. For additional information, please contact Tobey Eugenio at [email protected] or 508.888.3300 x. 159.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Fee: $40 for one workshop, $70 for both workshops
Using Your Outdoor Classroom, 9am - 12pm
Experience interesting techniques for using outdoor classrooms as an integral part of children's daily learning. Find out how well-designed spaces facilitate healthy physical, emotional, intellectual and social development in a variety of settings (from schools to early childhood programs in public spaces). Discover strategies for assessing children's learning, meeting teaching standards, alleviating challenging behaviors and bringing more joy to learning.
Documenting Children's Learning with Nature, 1pm - 4pm
Discover effective methods for supporting and documenting children's learning indoors and outdoors and for helping children with behavioral challenges and verbal-language delays become more successful. Learn how to "listen" to children's visual-spatial language, and explore helpful tips for successfully using a documentation tool called "Nature Notes" to record children's learning in outdoor classrooms.
Click here to register for one or both of these workshops.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Fee: $40 for one workshop, $70 for both workshops
The Importance of Visual-Spatial Learning, 9am - 12pm
Discover tools for providing more authentic learning opportunities for children in both built and natural environments and through purposeful movement. Gain a deeper understanding of why visual-spatial learning is important and how the visual-spatial learner is often misunderstood. Explore techniques for supporting each child's unique talents and abilities, and ways to use the natural world as a link to oral and written literacy.
The Arts and Nature, 1pm - 4pm
Discover engaging art experiences inspired by nature that help children make deeper connections with the world around them. Experience the Look-Move-Build-Sketch planning tool that encourages multifaceted arts exploration. Learn helpful strategies for supporting each child's individual needs, especially children with sensory integration challenges.
Click here to register for one or both of these workshops.