Teaching Off Trail

My Classroom's Nature Transformation Through Play
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-60554-750-3
Verlag: Redleaf Press

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dargatz, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Kindergarten & Vorschule

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.