Advanced (Part II) Wildlife Management & Outdoor Education Techniques for Educators, Thomas, Summer 2020

Note: TUITION FOR THIS COURSE IS PAYABLE TO VERMONT FISH & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT, Attn: Educator's Course - Ali Thomas, 1 National Life Drive, Davis 2, Montpelier VT 05620-3702. Questions about payment? Please contact instructor, Alison Thomas. Register with Vermont Fish & Wildlife first, using the "Register online now" link below. VT F&W will then give you the link to Castleton's online registration form.

Course Description

This course builds off the week-long Wildlife Management & Outdoor Education Techniques for Educators course offered through CU at GMCC: Buck Lake.  Like the first course, Part II takes a hands-on, experiential approach to teaching pre- kindergarten through twelfth grade and non-formal educators about fish and wildlife management and outdoor education techniques.

A three-day, residential course held in June at the Edward F. Kehoe Green Mountain Conservation Camp, for formal, non-formal, and pre-service educators of all disciplines and grade levels. Educators interested in integrating more in-depth environmental topics into their curriculum can learn about Vermont's wildlife and habitat conservation from professional biologists and educators through hands-on activities.

Audience: Educators (formal, non-formal, preservice) who have completed the Wildlife Management & Outdoor Education Techniques for Educators course at GMCC: Buck Lake.

Contact Alison Thomas for the daily schedule.

Course Objectives

Course Goals:

Provide a deeper understanding and more practical, hands-on experience and tools to utilize environmental education techniques in educational settings to connect educators and students with Vermont’s natural resources.

Course Objectives:

Upon completing Part II Wildlife Management & Outdoor Education Techniques for Educators, participants will…

1. Experience learning that provides increased knowledge and skills of wildlife management topics and implementation of these concepts in the classroom;
2. Work individually and in groups to foster interdisciplinary learning opportunities that focus on the cultural, political, and scientific aspects of habitat conservation and wildlife management;
3. Become a certified Let’s Go Fishing instructor; and,
4. Create a practical, graduate level learning project that can be integrated in their current curriculum.

Required Readings/Texts: (required texts not included in cost of course)

 Placed-based Education: Connecting Classroom and Community by David Sobel

 EarthEd Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet (introduction) by World Watch Institute

Other Suggested Readings/Texts:

The following books will be provided to participants upon completion of course:

1. Flying WILD Curriculum Guide (Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies)
2. Let’s Go Fishing Curriculum Guide (VT Fish & Wildlife Department)
3. Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students with Evidence from the Living World Matthew Kloser, Sophia Grathwol
4. Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet (complete book)The Worldwatch Institute

Additional Course Information

Assignments:

1. Pre-course readings (listed above)

 Projects:

1. Certification training for the Let’s Go Fishing program (during course)
2. Wildlife Management and Habitat Conservation Project (after course is over, submitted via email)

 Evaluation:

Students will be evaluated based on their participation in the course.  Each component of the course has assessment strategies built-in to address concepts learned and areas that need revisiting.

For additional course, registration and payment information

Alison Thomas
(802) 371-9975

Register online now!