Teaching Off Trail

One Kindergarten Classroom's Nature Transformation

Peter Dargatz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2022
Redleaf Press (Verlag)
978-1-60554-750-3 (ISBN)

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Describes Peter Dargatz's transformation from an anxious assessor to a fair and fun facilitator of learning. The book shares the his personal professional journey detailing his evolution as an educator while simultaneously offering strategies for readers to implement Peter's unique teaching philosophy.

Teaching Off Trail describes Peter Dargatz's, a national board certified teacher and public school coordinator, transformation from an anxious assessor to a fair and fun facilitator of learning. It shares the his personal professional journey detailing his evolution as an educator while simultaneously offering strategies for readers to implement Peter's unique teaching philosophy to increase opportunities for play, creative expression, and personalization in both the indoor and outdoor classroom. In his own classroom Peter brought learning outside by creating a nature kindergarten program that emphasizes community partnerships, service learning, and meaningful and memorable experiences in the outdoors.

Teaching Off Trail aims to inspire educators, administrators, and parents across all levels to turn their outrage for today’s educational system into outreach that promotes passionate and purposeful problem-solving.

Peter Dargatz has been an educator for fourteen years and held various leadership roles for his school and district. Besides starting a nature kindergarten classroom in his school, he coordinates a schoolwide nature center collaboration and a district-wide family nature club. He has presented about his classroom at play and nature-based conferences across the country, and he is a founding member of the Wisconsin Nature-Based Early Childhood Association (WINBECA) and a co-author of the Nature-Based Preschool Professional Practice Guidebook, a project of the North American Association for Environmental Education’s (NAAEE) Natural Start Alliance. He was selected as the 2020 Formal Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education. Peter resides in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

Introduction
Education Evolution: Teaching Off Trail, Rock Bottom, Radical Redesign
The Power and Possiblity of Play
Take It Outside
Forward
Reality Checks
The Future is Ours
Outside Perspectives

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2022
Verlagsort	St Paul, MN
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	391 g
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-60554-750-6 / 1605547506
ISBN-13	978-1-60554-750-3 / 9781605547503
Zustand	Neuware