CommonGround
2008
Mindful Innovations
Thinking
Outside of the Classroom
Alice
Seeger
Teaching Artist
Marcia Eames-Sheavely
Senior Community
Horticulture Educator, Cornell
Cooperative Extension |
School
Gardens offer many opportunities to
integrate Art with academic curriculum
and develop environmental knowledge.
Using
a Logic Model, participants will collaborate
in developing an outdoor program integrating
academic curriculum with Art and Environmental
Education. They will identify situations
in the school community that need strengthening,
project short- and long-term outcomes
and develop an action plan. Ways of
enlisting community and business support
will be discussed. Examples of successful
school gardens will be examined.
Conference Strand:
Curriculum and Assessment
Educators,
Artists, Cultural Organization
Administrators, Education
Administrators: will
learn ways to “think
outside of the classroom” to
develop school gardens that integrate
educational, artistic and environmental
learning.
Community/Parents:
will learn ways to become involved
in supporting a school garden.
Other: Businesses
will learn ways to support the school
community as a promotional tool.
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Alice Seeger is a Teaching Artist,
Executive Director of Hands On History
Inc. and Master Gardener with Cornell
Cooperative Extension in Dutchess County.
She is a Board member for the Association
of Teaching Artists and Dutchess County
Arts Council.
Marcia
Eames-Sheavely is a Senior Community
Horticulture Educator for Cornell Cooperative
Extension in Ithaca, She teaches a
course in "Living Sculpture" at
Cornell University.
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