The document discusses place-based education and The Watershed School, a charter school in Alaska that implements this educational approach. Place-based education aims to make the local community and environment central to the curriculum by using them as an integrating context for learning. The Watershed School offers a small, locally relevant curriculum focused on outdoor education, cultural studies, and developing students' sense of responsibility to the community.
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1. “A grounded, rooted learner
understands that his/her
actions matter, that they
affect the community
beyond the school. It is
out of this particular
formulation that the
„student as resource to the
community‟ takes shapethat understanding that
students need to be
thought of as productive
assets to the health of a
community.”
Rural School Challenge Research and
Evaluation Program, 1999
5. School Day and Calendar
• FNSBSD calendar for 2012-13
• School hours
8:30 – 3:00
• 8:00 Drop-off
• 3:00-3:20 Pick-up
6. School of Choice
What We Offer
•Small school atmosphere
•Locally relevant curriculum
•Rigorous academics
•Service learning projects
•Outdoor education
•Regular ski and hiking outings
•Extra-curricular activities
-Running club
- Ski club
- Biathlon
- Math Counts
What We Do Not Offer
•Bussing
•School lunch program
•Band/Orchestra
•After school programs
•School counselor/behavior
specialist
7. What is Place-Based
Education?
• Defining “place”
• Four components
• Cultural Studies
• Watershed Studies
• Public Process
• Economy
Through a balanced focus on economic development and environmental preservation, the
community and its businesses get revitalized, state curriculum standards are met, and
students are given valuable opportunities to learn in real-world settings.
David Sobel, Connecting Classrooms and Communities (2004)
8. Outdoor and Environmental
Education
Environmental
Education
•Understanding outdoor ecosystems
•Highlights conservation/sustainability
•Examples
Project Learning Tree
Alaska Wildlife Curriculum
GLOBE Program
Camp Habitat
Outdoor
Education
•Learning to survive and enjoy the outdoors
•Camping, hiking, skiing skills taught
•Examples:
NOLS (Natl. Outdoor Leadership School)
Outward Bound
Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
Alaska Conservation Camp
Place-Based Education at The Watershed School
Incorporation of outdoor skills into curriculum focusing on
deepening students’ sense and understanding of place
9. Importance of Outdoor
Learning
Increases student confidence
Promotes active, healthy lifestyle
Provides authentic experience
Instills sense of environmental
stewardship
"In the
end we will conserve only what we
love. We love only what we understand. We
will understand only what we are taught.”
Baba Dioum
11. Developmental Levels of
Nature Study
Empathy (K – 2)
Develop connection to living
things
Focus on enjoyment through
direct experience
Exploration (3-6)
Investigations into natural
systems
Positive, academic
experiences in the outdoors
Social Action (7-8)
Learn about regional
environmental challenges
Local, hands-on projects
What’s important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to
learn to love it, before being asked to heal its wounds.
David Sobel (1997)
12. Why Teach Place-Based
Education?
Response to narrowed curriculum
Improves understanding and
appreciation of natural world
Develops stronger ties to
community
Builds active, informed community
members
Motivating, relevant concepts
Academic achievement
13. Place-Based Social Studies
and Science Curriculum
• Unique curriculum sets this charter school apart
from other schools in Alaska
• Depth rather than
breadth
• Relevant curriculum
motivates students
14. Language Arts and Math
• Follow goals and objectives of the FNSBSD Language
Arts and Math Curriculum
• Site-based materials
• Singapore Math
• Algebra I
• Connects to science
and social studies
16. Physical Education
• Double district
requirement for
elementary
• 75% out-ofdoors
• Cross country
skis required
17. Behavior Expectations
Students need to develop:
•Personal responsibility
•Sense of community
Outdoor instruction requires:
•Self-control
•Ability to focus on task at hand
•Willingness to participate
•Safe behavior
18. The Watershed School
Challenging Academics
Study of Natural Surroundings
Study of Community and Culture
Responsibility to Self and Community
19. "... the great waste in school comes
from the child’s inability to utilize
the experiences he gets outside the
school in any complete and free way
within the school itself; while at the
other hand, he is unable to apply in
daily life what he is learning at
school."
John Dewey, The School and Society (1899)
For more information about place-based education and The Watershed School:
www.thewatershedschool.com
(907) 374-9350
Editor's Notes
Entry slide.
Discuss “making the local relevant again” Place-based ed really isn’t a new concept, perhaps the term, but using locally relevant material to teach content was a staple….blah blah blah
On this slide for awhile. John talking.Place refers to both our cultural surroundings and our natural landscape
So, we went over PBE. We’re often called “The Outdoor School” - This slide is dispelling more myths about PBE. Showing that it can incorporate outdoor ed, but is not solely outdoor ed. Here you can see the differences between outdoor education and environmental ed. The primary difference here is that enviroed teaches ecology and includes the aspect of human interaction with the natural world, which then highlights the merits of conservation and sustainability. Outdoor education involves the teaching of skills. At Watershed we combine these two with the four components of PBE to create our program. We teach skiing, hiking, starting campfires, etc BUT we do so along with teaching the content areas (reading, writing, math, science, history, economics, etc) and nature literacy.
=There’s value in real accomplishment. Hiking to the top of Mt. Healy, biking to Polychrome Pass, surviving a hike at -15. Students become tougher, more self-reliant.=Overall, we’re becoming more sedentary. Louv points out increase in # kids organized sports and # kids with obesity. Outdoor ED provides kids with the SKILLS and CONFIDENCE to get out and be active and enjoy it.=This is where I go on my video game, computer, screen time rant. So much of what students are exposed to now is virtual, it’s important for students to have real experiences, real adventures. =As the quote indicates, to get students to care about their environment (what we hope for) they need to know it, experience it.
John still talking. Fighting the myth of provincial knowledge.
Environmental education often conjures up images of students raising money to save the Amazon rainforests, drowning polar bears, etc. While this may be the case, David Sobel questions the appropriateness of doing so. At our school, we try to follow the developmental levels of nature study he outlines in his book “Ecophobia.” As you can see, early on the focus is on developing a connection…..and on
=Many schools are seeing more and more prescribed and required materials (not just curriculum). A required hour and a half for math, 2.5 for language arts, throw in lunch, recesses, specials (in the elementary) and your left with very little time to teach science and social studies. DEPTH vs BREADTH =Helps students discover “awe” in what was the ordinary. Seasonal pond and red squirrel example.=Tourism example from Fairbanks Economy. =Importance of students seeing value in their community, once they understand it’s cultures, economy, history – it’s much more accessible to them.=Are excited to learn, they enjoy being able to make connections, to be surprised by something they thought they knew. (Food We Eat)=When students are motivated, they do better in school. Test scores.
