Heritage Museums & Gardens - Educator Workshop

About Heritage Museums & Gardens - Educator Workshop...Using Your Outdoor Classroom – 9 am – 12 pm
Experience interesting techniques for using outdoor classrooms as an integral part of children’s daily learning. Find out how well-designed outdoor spaces facilitate healthy physical, emotional, intellectual and social development in a variety of settings (from schools to early childhood programs to 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 – 1 pm – 4 pm
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.