Head Start Staff become Project Learning Tree Facilitators
9/12/2011
Head Start Site Managers Portia Hockman and Kerry Kroeger recently became Project Learning Tree Facilitators. Project Learning Tree (PLT) is an award-winning education program designed by the Department of Natural Resources for educators working with students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade. Through hands-on, interdisciplinary activities, PLT helps young people learn how to think- not what to think- about complex environmental issues. It provides the tools educators need to bring the environment into their classrooms and the students into the environment.
PLT helps students learn about the world around them, their place within that world, and their responsibility for it. PLT helps students become:
- Personally aware of their presence in the environment;
- Personally aware of the multiple values of natural resources, including ecological, economic, cultural, and societal;
- Better able to understand their impact on and responsibility to the environment;
- Equipped with the skills and knowledge to make informed decisions regarding the management and use of the environment; and
- Increasingly confident in their ability to take action on their decisions
Portia and Kerry are available to provide workshops for teachers of children in pre-kindergarten through 12thgrade. For more information about the workshop contact: Portia Hockman at 812-847-2237 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)or Kerry Kroger at 812-882-7927 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Pace is committed to providing quality educational programs for children and the community. Having the PLT facilitators on staff allows Pace to share knowledge about both developmentally appropriate activities as well as stressing the importance of environmental conservation. We provide services that improve the communities we serve.
