I’m presenting tomorrow at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society’s annual conference, which this year is focused on Refreshing: New Tools and Techniques for Today’s Environmental Educators. My workshop is titled: Teambuilding and Cooperative Games – Implementing Experiential Education Practices into Environmental Education.
Essentially, there are some standard practices of experiential education: playing games, group-building activities, and debriefing the experience afterward, that could benefit many environmental education programs. I plan on speaking about the basics of experiential education (presuming there are some educators in the group who won’t be familiar with experiential education), and spend as much time as possible modeling both the activities and the debriefing sessions.
As I’m still busy refining my presentation for tomorrow, I need to keep today’s post short. But look for a future article that goes into this subject in more depth.
I hope the presentation went well for you!
It did! It was well received; needs some tweaking, as I’m hoping to do it again at a different conference later this year, but it was good to know that the audience found it helpful.