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Who Should Participate
The primary audiences for the Discovery Retreat are teachers of all types. Most commonly, middle school and high school teachers will be participants. However, curriculum adaptations are in place to serve adult educators of all types. Ocean Alliance interns represent a third audience for the Retreat.
Preservice and Veteran Teachers
The institute is primarily designed for public and private school teachers at the middle and high school levels. We have chosen this target group due to our commitment to promoting environmental awareness among future generations.
Preservice teachers. Novice teachers will benefit from participation in this program due to exposure to veteran teachers with an established practice. They will also be exposed to principles and practices of contextual teaching and learning prior to assuming their first professional assignment.
Veteran teachers. More experienced teachers will benefit from the renewal effect of the retreat while being exposed fresh ways of thinking about teaching and learning. The promotional literature for the institute will encourage local teachers to form a multidisciplinary team that can create intergrated lessons for their home schools.
Adult Educators
Adult educators. A third group of teachers are those responsible for educating adults in a variety of settings. These individuals might be instructors in postsecondary technical and academic institutions such as community colleges or technical institutes. Others might be teachers of adult basic education, literacy, English as a second language, corporate trainers, or Human Resources practitioners or administrators.
Ocean Alliance Interns
Ocean Alliance Interns. Annually, the OA has engaged volunteer interns who act as educators on whale watching boats in the New England area. Often, these interns represent a variety of disciplines such as marine sciences, biology, or science education. We are proposing that these individuals, on a voluntary basis, might participate in the institute to learn more about principles of teaching and learning. These pedagogy skills will be very helpful in accomplishing their task of educating the whale watching public. It would be possible for these individuals to take the course for credit through UGA, or to receive CEUs through the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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