About Me
I have spent most of my career, teaching 3rd Grade in a large, inner city school. This past year, I moved back up north to a rural town, in the middle of a National Forest. This means, that I am THE 4th Grade teacher in a K-12 school.
I have my Masters in Environmental Education and I have a passion to incorporate outdoor learning and environmental concepts into my classroom, on a daily basis. While I am currently teaching at a school in the middle of a National Forest, my background of teaching in the city, allows me to be able to create outdoor learning in a variety of spaces.
Environmental or outdoor education is not only a chance for students to get outside, but it also gives them the opportunity to explore, ask questions, and generate their own answers to those questions through self-exploration. It also fosters the students' inquisitive minds and teaches them to appreciate the natural world. Most environmental educators would say that before you can start teaching students about the environmental issues of the world, they need to have an appreciation for the natural world.
My hope is that this blog will showcase the many ways that as a teacher, you can easily bring your students outside or use environmental concepts into the classroom.
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