Workshops and Events Archive

Discovering Community: Students, Digital Media, and Place-Based Learning

June 27–July 1, 2011

Middlebury

The Institute offers participants handson experience learning the methods of community-based research, the process of making a documentary, and models for working with digital media in a classroom environment. Visit www.discoveringcommunity.org. Learn more about our faculty, look at unit plans and media projects from past participants, and access registration information. Or call (802) 388-4964. Learn to conduct audio interviews.

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Workshops & Institutes Education for Sustainability (EFS) Institute

Tuesday-Thursday, August 2-4, 2011; 8:30 am-4:30 pm

Formal and non-formal educators nation-wide are using the idea of sustainability to connect student's learning experiences across the grades and disciplines so that they can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Join fellow PreK-12 educators to build strategies and skills for using sustainability to connect curriculum, campus practices, and community engagement.

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Project Seasons

Summer Workshop Monday–Friday, July 26–28, 2011 9:00 am-4:00 pm

Enrich your science curriculum with exciting, interdisciplinary, hands-on, and easy-to-use activities on environmental and agricultural topics. This workshop is designed to increase science literacy and cultivate connections by tracing the food we eat and the clothes we wear back to the farm.

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Community Works Institute on Service-Learning

Monday–Friday, July 18–22, 2011; 8:30 am –4:30 pm

Shelburne Farms

Join with colleagues from across North America and beyond, working to embrace service-learning and sustainability in their practice. CWI's Institute provides K-16 teachers, community educators, and administrators with training, models, strategies, and resources for developing servicelearning and sustainability as an integrated curriculum. The Institute emphasize the use of service-learning best practices through engaging training with experienced practitioners, as well as through study groups, planning and refl ection time. Veteran faculty and partners will share tools and experience throughout the week. Participants will develop an integrated servicelearning instructional or site plan meeting their own unique needs. Opportunities for post-Institute support are available.

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One-Day Workshops linked to School Programs

On-Going

Shelburne, Vermont

Open to all educators who want to learn more about a specific subject, these workshops help to integrate our field trip topics with classroom work. If you're a homeschooling parent, farmer hosting schools on your farm, or you have a special interest in a topic, come learn from experts in the field. You'll also observe and model appropriate teaching methods and begin to develop assessment techniques.

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