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Teacher Training for CSS projects

This section of the Citizen Science in the Schoolyard web site is designed to help teachers and other educators (nature center staff, youth group leaders) when leading teacher training workshops for CSS projects. Much of this information has been developed for Classroom FeederWatch, the first of several curricular projects within CSS. Information from the other curricular projects will be added to these pages as they are developed.

This Online Teacher Training Workshop Manual provides you with the information needed to lead a successful teacher training workshop. The Manual is divided into three sections:

1. Workshop Preparation resources to use in preparing the workshop

2. Workshop Materials (Workshop Goals, Introduction to Citizen Science, Bird Identification, etc.) for use during the workshop, and

3. Workshop Follow-up including a Trainer Feedback Form.

Within each section we provide three kinds of support materials:

a)  Dialogue sheets with suggestions on how to present the material in that section, including correlation with overheads, print outs, and CSS web pages.

b)  Overheads to use in illustrating the main points of that section.

c)  Printable fact sheets to distribute to workshop participants.

Use the links to the left to navigate within the manual, then use the pdf file to print out the manual for use as a reference while conducting the workshop.

In addition to the manual, we are developing the workshop materials into two Power Point files, one for producing a slide presentation, and a more dynamic version for use when you have a computer available in the workshop facility. Check this page for more information as these files become available.

 

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