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Welcome Center
A Welcome Message For You
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0-1: Welcome! Please Introduce Yourself 30 minLecture1.1
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0-2: A Note from Victoria 30 minLecture1.2
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0-3: Share a goal or intention for this class 30 minLecture1.3
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Module One: Strengthen Your Professional Identity as a Natural Teacher
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1-1: Create Goals and Intentions 30 minLecture2.1
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1-2: Five Steps to Prepare your Foundation for the Best Year Yet 30 minLecture2.2
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1-3: Get Curious with Montessori, Waldorf & Reggio 30 minLecture2.3
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1-4: Use Nature as a Guide: Wonder Based Teaching 30 minLecture2.4
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Module Two: Create Your Map of Intention
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2-1: Five Stages to Intentional Teaching Outdoors 30 minLecture3.1
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2-2: Five Tracks for Your Road Trip to Become a Natural Teacher 30 minLecture3.2
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2-3: Learn from our National Parks: America’s Largest Outdoor Classroom 30 minLecture3.3
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2-4: Harvest Your Manifesto & Create a Vision Board 30 minLecture3.4
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2-5: Workshop #1: RecordingLecture3.5
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Module Three: Nurture A Garden Practice: The Transformation
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3-1: Growth through Gardening with Bobbie Mabe 30 minLecture4.1
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3-2: Ten Life Lessons for Outdoor Classrooms 30 minLecture4.2
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3-3: Become an Advocate of Nature-Based Teaching 30 minLecture4.3
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3-4: I Wonder Why: Claire Warden Keynote at Wow Conference 30 minLecture4.4
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Module 4: Behind the Scenes
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4-1: Live Workshop #2: Closing Circle 30 minLecture5.1
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4-2: Behind the Scenes with Jessica Kagle from Kestrel Educational Adventures 30 minLecture5.2
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4-3: Behind the Scenes with Lara Lepionka from Backyard Growers 30 minLecture5.3
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4-4: Put it all Together: What next? 30 minLecture5.4
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4-5: Workshop #2: RecordingLecture5.5
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Mellany here, It is my goal to become more knowledgeable in regards to edible plants that can be incorporated in our space and to teach the children to love and respect an edible garden, also it would be great to find out what plants are bee friendly.
Wonderful!
My goal by attending this class is to use the natural environment as the third teacher. I want to bring awareness of the benefits of nature, all that it has to offer us to the children. To respect it and find joy in it. I want to learn more activities that support this learning concept and to encourage children to want to be in nature.
Beautiful!!! Here we go using the environment as the third teacher.
I am from Whistler British Columbia, I run a childcare centre for children 2.5 to 5 years of age. I want to learn more about my environment, the plants, the animals, the trees, and what happens on the forest floor. At this point my challenge is my lack of knowledge in this area. We currently spend about 2-4 days per week in our forest spots during outside time and are always looking to expand on our outdoor adventures.
We have had a garden box at our local community garden for the past 4 years. We plant with the children and tend to it weekly. I would like to expand my knowledge of gardening as well by stating the plants with the children inside to transfer later to our garden bed. I usually buy starter plants from our local garden centre.
Beautiful!! So much to learn and share. The best part is that we can learn alongside our children. Keep that in mind as you journey through this adventure.
Thank you Victoria, for giving us the opportunity to learn from you!
My goal is to be able to inspire my class room children, to love respect and appreciate our NATURE, and learn outdoor activities using our imagination.
My goals are to find ways to bring more of our classroom outside, for longer periods of time. We already do a lot of snacks outside as well as getting out in the mornings and afternoons, but I would like to make it more intentional while still giving the children freedom to explore as they want. Turning over rocks and tree slices to see what is underneath is one of our favorite things to do outside, and I want to find more things like this that we can do on our playground as well as find places outside of the playground that we can safely explore.
So simple to roll over logs. Such great impact too. Great goals!
My goals for this class will be to understand how to use a very limited and unnatural outdoor play area and make it better for the students. Our playground has no grass or ability to plant and does not really have a lot of natural space.
I am thrilled you are here as there are lot’s you can do without natural areas. I call these cement jungles.
I forgot to do this! My goal would be not only find more ways of incorporating nature and the outdoors to our daily curriculum, but also find ways how to get my coworkers more excited about teaching outdoors!
Great goals!!
I do believe that children have a growing disconnect with our earth. I feel we need to make a huge effort to re-engage our kids with the outside world; in the words of of Richard Louv, they are suffering from “nature deficit disorder”. My hope is to connect the children in my care to nature through all areas of the curriculum and learn the tools to help them appreciate and grow curious about their world.
Well said! Thank you!
My goal/intention is to learn from a new perspective. My co teacher and I have been working together for two years now and we both immensely enjoy issuing nature and the outdoors in our curriculum. I am excited to see other tools, tips, and tricks that we have yet to discover.
Lucky to have a co-teacher that enjoys this work too!
I am looking for new ideas to implement and to enhance out door experiences for the children and families I work with. I am interested in ideas for toddler and preschool age children.
as a center we are nature based and children are given a lot of opportunities to explore outside on the playground and on our walks around the campus. There is always room for growth and new ideas!
Thrilled to know your program is nature-based! Looking forward!
Hi. My goal is to be a better gardener and motivate kids to take interest in nature.
Awesome! Welcome.
My goal is to become more knowledgable and learn some new things I can put into my curriculum for gardening. We have a lot of plants in my school but no outdoor area. I’m excited to learn.
Great! Welcome!
My goal is to learn more about gardening and how I can make it fun and enjoyable for my students while still allowing it to be a learning experience.
Perfect!
My goal is to learn more about myself as a teacher and nature, as a way to develop a curriculum in which my philosophy as a teacher is constant and present (emotional and nature centered). By taking this course, I hope to learn more about gardening and being able to bring these tools to my children.
Terrific!
Hi my name is Kayleigh. My goal for this class is to learn how to truly bring my teaching outdoors with some new knowledge and ideas! I really struggle with bringing the classroom outdoors as I have a classroom with 10 students all just turning 3 years old…it can be pretty crazy. We are lucky if we can get an activity done in the classroom…my students really enjoy going out for walks so I am hoping that throughout this class I can learn how to bring more teaching knowledge outside!
Great goals!! Welcome!
My goal is to learn about natural materials and gardening activities to bring into the classroom year round. I want to gain inspiration about making a small outdoor space work for gardening activities.
Terrific. Welcome!
My goal is to learn how to garden for myself and be able to bring it into my class with gardening and potting plants indoors as well as seeing if there is a way for me to make a garden at work that we could utilize with the infants and toddlers in our program
Great to write them out.
I would like to learn different strategies to implement in class curriculum .
Wonderful!!!
My goal also is to gain the knowledge of how to bring the classroom outdoors and bring the outdoors in the classroom. How to become a Natural teacher?
My goal is to be able to develop a curriculum that my preschool students will love and be able to give them interest and engage them in learning.
Wonderful!
Hello,
My goals are to find ways to include parents and families in our nature based curriculum, with things such as take home activities or plans and/or volunteering at our school to get the parents more involved in being outdoors with their children. I would like to create nature based activities that include all of the children’s senses, including texture, smells, sounds, close observations, and even taste. I would also like more ideas for bringing nature and science into the toddler classroom.
One small challenge that I have is that my classroom is closed during the summertime and I am not at work for three months during the summer, so my curriculum would need to be based around the Fall, Winter, and Springtime. Also another challenge I face is that my classroom is mainly international children who do not speak English at all when they first start and they have never before been left by their parents, so they cry a lot and do not understand what I am saying to them for the first couple of months, starting in late August. I have had up to eleven languages spoken in my classroom at one time and I am not bilingual myself.
Wow!!! That is amazing to have so many children speaking different languages. Are they children of professors from the college? Kuddo to you–that is a challenge, but it sounds like you always find the other side.
Yes, I have the grad student’s children in my classroom.
If I am looking for anything out of this class it would be on how to utilize the resources and information given to me to create and develop a curriculum that i can use outdoors to enrich the creative and learning experiences that I am delivering.
Good thinking!
My goal is to plan (and hopefully execute) a vibrant outdoor classroom that incorporates all areas of the curriculum and inspire the staff and children to engage in creative learning experiences together in the space.
Terrific!!!
I would like to learn how to be creative with a minimal resource. I hope I can create a purposeful outdoor area, perhaps a garden for children. We can enjoy learning about science.
Terrific!!!
Hi, my name is Minerva, I’m from MA, i work with infants up to kindergarten age students. I want to learn more about outdoor activities i can do with the children I teach. I work from home and my backyard/garden is always set up with toys and activities to make sure my kids are always active when they can be.
Welcome! Terrific. I love that you are working on your own Backyard Teaching Garden.
I am Talia Salom and I live in Chestnut Hill MA. My students are preschool and their ages are between 3 and 4 years old. My expectation in this class is to learn how to develop a bio garden but also to create meaningful strategies that awaken that desire to learn about the world around them and their participation in it.
My challenge is create an organic space, a free place where they can interact freely but also maintain it during the rest of the year. That it is not only for the subject or curriculum.
I do not have much experience in gardens, I have always lived in cities. Something that caught my attention when I came to live to United States are those open spaces in the parks where people can have their own garden in the middle of the concrete jungle.
Your perspectives for this class will be wonderful. Love your reactions to the community gardens within cities.
My goal for myself as a educator is to learn new ways in enhancing my outdoor curriculum to new experiences for my student to learn the importance of our outside world.
Exciting!
I’m excited for the course to help give me some ideas to get the educators at the center more excited about being outside and bringing their curriculum outside with more intentional learning in our outside space.
Welcome!!! I’m excited too!
My goal is to get the kowledge to enjoy the outdoors with the children and also be able to plan and creat activities for them
Terrific.
Hi All,
I work with children from ages infant – 5/6 years old. My goal for this class is to take meaningful outdoor lessons and implement them into my classroom. I want to be more purposeful with the outdoor learning activities.
What I am challenged with in teaching children is the amount of screen time they are exposed to. Many children now relate to what they have seen on a television show or online game instead of an experience they had themselves. I want to get these students off the screens and bring awareness to the outdoor world around them. I think teaching them to about nature would be meaningful and exciting.
YES!!! We need this work more than ever now. I’m not sure how we got here, but we can reconnect children with nature and help them discover the wonders of the outdoors.
My goal for this course is to gain more knowledge and ideas about how to bring the outdoors indoors, and how to bring the indoors outdoors. I would also like to learn more about how to get children to appreciate and respect Nature
Well done!!!
I am Helen Meissner. I live in Minnesota. I teach 2.5 yrs to 5 yr olds. We garden and live outside every opportunity we get. We are relocating this year to our own building and I am looking forward to designing my own outdoor classroom.