True or False?
—A teacher partnership with Litzsinger Road Ecology Center is all about the free field trips…
False! If the partnership was solely about class visits to LREC, then our calendar would be jammed and few teacher partners would be teaching outdoors on a regular basis. No teacher can become an effective outdoor educator like that!
A LREC Teacher Partnership is about you
- developing your outdoor teaching and learning skills,
- integrating outdoor learning experiences into your current units of study,
- making effective educational use of your schoolyard and surrounding community,
- participating in a school/community place-based education team, and
- becoming an active participant in a dynamic community of outdoor place-based educators!
Here are the opportunities that you have, as a teacher partner, to do that:
- Read, and contribute to, our monthly newsletter.
Attend monthly teacher enrichments, 4–5:30 p.m., at various schools (see announcements).- Invite your LREC contact to participate in an outdoor learning activity at your school.
- Enroll in one of our advanced programs: Sustainable Schoolyards or Place-based Learning (info here).
- Attend next year’s teacher conference, January 24, 2018.