Teaching and learning:
- Active listening
- Actively engage your learners
- Authentic learning through real-life assignments
- Building a holistic learning environment
- Communities of practice/learning communities
Community building- Community service-learning
- Concept mapping and other visual tools
- Course and curriculum design
- Creativity
- Ecology in your discipline
- Evaluation and assessment
- Grading rubrics
- Group projects and group work
- Instructional skills
- Learning objectives/outcomes/goals
- Learning portfolios
- Lesson planning
- Motivating students
- Networking
- Peer Review
- Presentation basics
- Problem-based learning
- Reflection and journaling
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Students as researchers and scholars
- Supporting students to take responsibility for their own learning
- Sustainability education/leadership
- Teaching and learning for the heart and mind
- Team building
- Use of narrative and story
Ecology and natural history:
- Bring the outdoors inside
- Ecology in your life
- Field identification of birds
- Nature on your doorstep
- Nature study
- Wildlife detective
(Note: any workshop topics can be customized for teachers, as well as for teacher trainers, focusing on how you could lead a workshop like this one. Workshops range from 1 hour to 3 days in length, depending on the topic and your needs. Workshops in italics are for a general audience, and can be customized for children or youth.)
