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Leadership
For Educators
Teacher
Outreach (TORCH) Workshop
Summer
Session
The Environmental Learning Institute,
in affiliation with Hooksum Outdoor School, offers professional
development workshops for science educators who seek the opportunity
to learn more about science education philosophy, pedagogy and
praxis and global environmental change while learning about a
threatened North American ecosystem of global significance.
Teacher's session topics
include:
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Climate, flora, fauna, and
geology and environmental threats to coastal temperate rainforest
ecosystems.
- Field research techniques
that can be applied in the classroom as well as in the field
with students.
- Experience inquiry-based learning
first-hand and develop inquiry-based lessons for their own classrooms.
- Co-design and co-implement
a Participatory Action Research project (with geological and
biological components) serving the interests of the local community.
- Participate in professional
forums on inquiry-based science, alternative assessment, and
constructivist pedagogy in the science classroom.
The Gift Tsa'Chi Creek
by Greg Cloverdale
Associate Professor of Education,
St. Cloud University |
Tsa'Chi Creek
by David Black
For Stephen and Karen Charleson,
Hesquiaht Sound, Is’icc
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Sky meets sea
Yellowlegs march
Earth and tree
Wolves, be free
Fire flickers and
Waves retreat
In the land of the Hesquiaht
The black bear marches
His lonely path
Sharing his presence with
New friends in town
The eagle perches, glares, and twitches
Stalking salmon, chum and pink
The creek's bank holds a family dear
To new friends in town
The heart is big in this
Lovely bay
Just passing through
Will light my way
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In our absence,
present.
A blanket on the earth,
breathing…
Within the deep quiet
sky swallows elephant skinned balsam
lilting hemlock
fir and sitka spruce,
yew,
and
red cedar,
the tallest ancestor.
Down here,
green on green on brown.
Silence holds us
among the red salmonberry,
blue huckleberry,
awaking us to
the yellow flash of light
on Tsa’chi Creek. . . . >
Read complete poem on this PDF
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To learn more about these workshops/courses,
please visit the Environmental Learning Institute's website at
www.environmentallearning.org
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