Community Leaders in Classrooms Training

March 15 2005
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Community Leaders in Classrooms Training
Location: DW Reynolds Community Center, 948 Incline Way, Incline Village, NV
Would you like to work with schools, offering presentations, schoolyard activities, field trips, lesson plans, or expertise? Community Leaders in the Classroom is designed for you!

Community Leaders are individuals who work for agencies, organizations, businesses, and as individuals, offering educational opportunities to schools. This workshop will increase your skills in working with students, and enable you to enhance the quality of your programs.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
10:00 ¡V 4:00, with lunch break
Donald W Reynolds Community Nonprofit Center, Incline Village

The five-hour workshop includes:
ƒæ Meeting your organization or business goals through educating students; educational programs can increase public support for and understanding of the Environmental Improvement Program (EIP) and the missions of all the partners in meeting EIP goals
ƒæ Place-based learning and service-learning concepts, and research which supports these approaches
ƒæ Group management techniques for the classroom, schoolyard and field
ƒæ Child development stages and ways of effectively working with each stage
ƒæ Understanding and meeting educational standards
ƒæ Using inquiry for science and other subjects, and the value of multiple intelligences for reaching all students
ƒæ Identifying grade levels and subjects which your program best matches, and targeting your programs at grades or schools which are underserved with quality programs
ƒæ Understanding how the requirements of No Child Left Behind affect school priorities
ƒæ Working effectively with teachers and other school staff, including interpreting educational jargon and scheduling yourself into school programs
ƒæ Using the CLC database and updating your entry

Registration: Ashley Taylor, Service Learning Americorps VISTA, ataylor@ttusd.org, 530-582-2517.
Fee: $10 to cover lunch and materials.
More information: Christine McMorrow of SWEP at christine@4swep.org, 530-525-6692 or Heather Segale of LTEEC at 775-832-4138, segaleh@unce.unr.edu.

Sponsored by Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships (SWEP), Lake Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition (LTEEC), University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, and Parasol Community Collaboration
as part of a unified watershed-wide effort to implement place-based service-learning (PBSL) in schools and communities.
Contact: Ashley Taylor, Service Learning Americorps VISTA, ataylor@ttusd.org, 530-582-2517