AEOE 2007 Statewide Spring Conference:Connecting with Community Sierra Outdoor School, Sonora, CA April 27-29, 2007 Call For Presenters |
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Print out a PDF version of the Call for Presenters and Presenter Application for mail or fax!
We need workshop presenters! A wonderful variety of excellent workshops, presented by environmental educators, for environmental educators, is what makes AEOE conferences great. If you have a lesson you'd like to share, these are some guidelines for what we would like to see in workshops at the 2007 Conference.
Building Connections to Our Students’ Communities: Making EE relevant by connecting learning to students’ experiences, home ecosystems, and local issues. Helping youth breach the gap between knowing the words and actually making better choices themselves through lesson, example and community involvement. Building partnerships with local organizations, implementing service projects, and facilitating follow-up activities once students return home.
Environmental Education in Diverse Communities: Including ALL populations, reaching ALL students. How do we get there from here? Focusing more on a plan for what is next, not just a critique of what has been. Action plans and practical solutions for reaching diverse audiences (race/ethnicity, religion, physical/emotional/mental ability, sexual orientation, socio-economic strata, urban - rural, etc), and creating a more diverse group of educators
Connecting with Community through Teaching: Making lessons active, hands-on, minds-on, memorable, fun, effective, and relevant to students. Examples of great EE lessons to help achieve mastery of California State Science Standards. Doing real research and long-term studies with students. Incorporating the scientific method into field lessons. Facilitating service Learning and Action Projects for students.
Community Building within Student Populations: From leading team building initiatives to facilitating challenge courses, or mediating student conflicts, to creating a sense of community in your programs. How do we help students to recognize and appreciate one anothers’ differences while learning to work together?
Understanding Natural Communities: Increasing our own understanding of Natural History. Learn more about plants, animals, rocks, weather, and the night sky to better interpret the habitats in which we teach. Could include classification, identification, connections between plants and animals within ecosystems. Building understanding of how these parts of our natural communities integrate into healthy ecosystems. Teaching ways to share this knowledge with our students.
Connecting with Community through EE Research and Pedagogy: spreading the word on how EE works and applying what we've learned to create more effective programs and lessons. Interpreting and using research results to promote EE and our own programs. Learning from each other's successes. Collaborating with Universities, organizations, foundations, etc. Implementing assessment and interpreting results. Using research and results to get grants and funding for programs.
Suggested Workshop Topics: Any topic that clearly supports the conference theme of Connecting with Community, and/or supports one of the workshop strands listed above. Examples might include: Active lessons to teach Astronomy Concepts; Service learning projects that excite students; Participating in research projects with your students; Show me the money - getting funding for all students to attend outdoor programs; Including students with physical disabilities; Converting to biodiesel and incorporating it into your teaching (or solar, or building straw bale classrooms, or creating an organic garden, etc); Composting Curriculum; Safely Constructing/ Facilitating Low Rope Elements; How to Talk your Administrator (parents, PTO, school board, principal) into sending your class to an OE program; Managing Challenge Courses; Teaching and Learning about Oaks; Butterflies for Fun and Profit (just kidding...); Invertebrate classification; Diggin' the Dirt; Team-building Treasures...got any ideas of your own? Apply to present a workshop! (Note: the above are made-up workshops - feel free to use any of these ideas for your own workshops!)
Presenter Discounts & Benefits: AEOE offers a 50% discount off the registration fee to the primary presenter of each workshop. If there are multiple presenters, the primary presenter gets the discount and may divide it with co-presenters on their own. Presenters are encouraged to attend the rest of the conference (registration required). If you plan to attend the conference, you MUST register. Presenters must be or become AEOE members (basic fee is $15, supporting membership is $35) for liability purposes.
If you have questions regarding fees, deadlines, membership or other details,
information will be available on this website or you can contact
or
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conference planners.
DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP PRESENTER APPLICATION:
Extended to February 16, 2007.
Workshops decisions will be made at the deadline & announced in the 3 weeks
after January 31, not as they are received. Although early
applications are encouraged, if you apply early, you won't hear back until
after January 31, 2007 if your workshop was accepted. For more information
contact conference planners
or
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Print out a 
PDF version of the Call for Presenters and Presenter Application for mail or fax!
Please return completed application to:
AEOE Conference Coordinators
15700 Old Oak Ranch Rd, Sonora, CA 95370
or fax: (209) 532-4196
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