Place-Based Learning - Connecting Young Children to Their Communities & Environments
Course: #32396Level: IntermediateSubject Area: Planning a safe and healthy learning environment 1 Hour 314 Reviews
Learn about place-based learning and how to connect to "Our Place," our communities, and build curriculum. Examples of "Our Place" are shared as well as how to implement a place-based learning project with young children.
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Course Type: Video
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to identify and explain what place-based learning is.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe the benefits and purposes of a place-based learning curriculum model.
- After this course, participants will be able to summarize how to implement a place-based learning project with young children.
Course created on August 2, 2022
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction, Overview, Land Acknowledgement |
| 5-15 Minutes | What is Place-Based Learning? |
| 15-25 Minutes | What are the purposes of Place-Based Learning? |
| 25-30 Minutes | How do we connect to our place, our communities, and build curriculum? |
| 30-35 Minutes | How do I begin to create a place-based curriculum project? |
| 35-40 Minutes | The four steps |
| 40-45 Minutes | Examples of “Our Place” |
| 45-55 Minutes | Place-based scans |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary |
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314 ReviewsPresented By
Hilary Seitz
PhD
Dr. Hilary Seitz is a passionate early childhood educator, an advocate for young children and their families, and an Alaskan. She has been a professor of early childhood at the University of Alaska, Anchorage since January of 2003. She came with 17 years of early childhood teaching experience from infant/toddler/preschool classrooms, public Pre-K, and primary grades. Her research foci have been in early literacy development, collaborative practices between families and schools including culturally responsive pedagogies, emergent curriculum development, documentation and authentic assessment, and social constructivist learning theories inspired by Reggio Emilia practices. She is currently working on projects related to the superpower of creativity and how to integrate culturally relevant early literacy practices into the classroom. In her free time, she loves to read (novels), hike around Alaska, crochet, play cribbage, walk her dogs and spend time with her family at her cabin.
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