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OUT8161- Developing Teacher Training
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This course presents the essential components of working with schools and school systems, specifically conducting teacher training. The course culminates with participants applying their skills at an actual teacher workshop during the week of training. Upon return to their sites, participants are also expected to plan and conduct a workshop for teachers within a year.
College Credit 2 semester hours  
Who Should Attend: Any employee with responsibility for planning and conducting teacher workshops.
Objectives:
  • Plan, implement, and evaluate a teacher training workshop that addresses specific issues and topics relevant to your own site or program;
  • Identify appropriate strategies for including schools in programs that address resource management issues;
  • Write at least three learning objectives for a teacher workshop;
  • Construct an agenda for a teacher workshop;
  • Conduct a teacher workshop;
  • Evaluate a teacher workshop;
  • Critically reflect on a teacher workshop experience;
  • Assess local teacher training needs and devise a plan to meet them;
  • Identify ways to build relationships with schools;
  • Conduct a needs assessment of teachers;
  • Select adult education strategies for teacher workshops; and
  • Identify relevant follow-up and supportive strategies that will assist teachers after completing the workshop.

Length: 4.5 days/36 hours Availability: Every other year
Contact:
Georgia Jeppesen
Email:
Georgia_Jeppesen@fws.gov
Phone:
304/876 738

 



National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443
U S Fish and Wildlife Service