Our Heritage and the other environmental education resources and programs in your school through all you have learned and discussed throughout the workshop. Environmental education can provide an umbrella for interdisciplinary, experience-based learning and can do so as part of a sophisticated academic regimen covering requirements of the classroom textbook and the Alabama Course of Study. Environmental Education can provide a catalyst for making learning directly relevant and personally meaningful by involving students in the active study of the local community. Available resources for environmental education can be arranged in a format that promotes the on-going, organized use of existing programs and materials to better help teachers in meeting the full scope of learner needs. Implementing environmental education through a guided process of community collaboration can generate enhanced community support for the school.
Outdoor education is an approach to more efficient learning.
The purpose of outdoor education is to enrich, vitalize and complement content areas of the school curriculum by means of first hand observation and direct experience outside the classroom. Instruction which traditionally has been limited to the four walls of the classroom is, for the most part, highly verbal. We will try to grant your first choice, but the placement will be based on availability. Also, include the names of other environmental education workshops, if any, that you have attended. Teachers will be selected for the workshop based on geographic diversity and environmental education experience.