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TLCI 300

Welcome to. TLCI 300. Help yourself to: a syllabus an index card and make a table tent with your name on it. (See instructor’s example.) And then sign in please. The Community: An Educational Resource. Graduate Teaching Assistant. Kirsten H. Ruthe

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TLCI 300

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  1. Welcome to TLCI 300 • Help yourself to: • a syllabus • an index card and make a table tent with your name on it. (See instructor’s example.) • And then sign in please. The Community:An Educational Resource

  2. Graduate TeachingAssistant Kirsten H. Ruthe Doctoral Student, Environmental Education kruthe@niu.edu Office location: Gabel 166A Office phone: 815-753-9154 Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10AM-4PM           Wednesdays 10AM - 6PM

  3. Education Stuff

  4. What is . . . • Outdoor Education ??? • Experiential Education ????

  5. What is . . . • Outdoor Education ??? • Some say: • “. . . education in, about, and for the out of doors.”Donaldson And Donaldson, 1958 • Others say: • “. . . an experiential process of learning by doing, which takes place primarily through exposure to the out-of-doors.“Priest, 1986 • Here at NIU: • “. . .using the outdoors as a laboratory for learning.”Hammerman, Hammerman, and Hammerman, 2001

  6. What is . . . • Outdoor Education • Using the outdoors as a laboratory for learning. • Experiential Education • It is broader and more inclusive than outdoor education. The definition provided by the Association for Experiential Education is: . . . a philosophy and methodology in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills and clarify values.

  7. Outdoor and Experiential Education Experiential Education Outdoor Education

  8. Now, two more . . . • Service Learning • a teaching method that enriches learning by engaging students in meaningful service to their schools and communities. • Environmental Education • Environmental education is a process aimed at developing a world population that is aware of and concerned about the total environment and its associated problems, and which has the knowledge, attitudes, motivations, commitments, and skills to work individually and collectively toward solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones.

  9. And now . . . A tasty puzzle: How are this chocolate chip cookie and environmental education alike?

  10. A brief pause – to let you ponder this question.

  11. Environmental Education: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Think of the chips as: • English Language Arts • Mathematics • Science • Social Science • Physical Development and Health • Fine Arts • Foreign Languages Are these beginning to sound familiar???? The Illinois Learning Standards

  12. So . . . • If: • you think of the chips as all of the subjects that can be taught, individually or in an interdisciplinary setting, • Then: • you can think of environmental education as the rest of the cookie – the dough that holds all the chips together and makes it all a cookie. It is abody of content and skills from within which all the other subjects can be taught.

  13. A Review and then some . . .

  14. Outdoor Education Using the outdoors as a laboratory for learning. Teaching in the Outdoors

  15. Experiential Education Experiential education is a philosophy and methodology in which educators purposefully engage with learners in direct experience and focused reflection in order to increase knowledge, develop skills and clarify values. Association for Experiential Education www.aee.org

  16. Service Learning Service-learning is a teaching method that enriches learning by engaging students in meaningful service to their schools and communities. Young people apply academic skills to solving real-world issues, linking established learning objectives with genuine needs. National Youth Leadership Council www.nylc.org

  17. Environmental Education Environmental education is a process aimed at developing a world population that is aware of and concerned about the total environment and its associated problems, and which has the knowledge, attitudes, motivations, commitments, and skills to work individually and collectively toward solutions of current problems and the prevention of new ones. (UNESCO, 1978)

  18. And, there is still more . . . • Team Building • Challenge Education • Adventure Education • Backpacking • Rock Climbing • Whitewater rafting and canoeing • Wilderness survival • and other INTENSE stuff. Fun, but we don’t have the time for it. So . . . to sum it up -

  19. Educational Methods and Content at Our Disposal • Outdoor Education • Experiential Education • Environmental Education • Service Learning • Team Building and • Challenge Education • and anything else that might facilitate our students’ learning.

  20. Now, let’s get . . .

  21. Experiential

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