Dear Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Susan Gerofsky (EDCP) as Principal Applicant and Dr. Jolie Mayer-Smith (EDCP), Dr. Andrew Riseman (LFS), Julia Ostertag (EDCP Graduate Student), Chessa Adsit-Morris (EDCP Graduate Student) and Kate Petrusa (EDCP Graduate Student) as team members for their successful 2013-2014 TLEF of $62, 551.
Project Title: Learning to teach in an outdoor classroom: The UBC Orchard Garden
Project Summary: This third-year funding for the Orchard Garden Outdoor Classroom project aims to:
• Help new and experienced teachers learn to teach across the curriculum in a garden-based outdoor classroom, with the garden itself as ‘co-teacher’.
• Continue integration of the Outdoor Classroom into the UBC Teacher Education curriculum and other cross-campus initiatives through garden-based enhanced practica, classes and Saturday workshop series for teacher candidates, community seasonal celebrations, arts events and installations.
• Support student and faculty research in garden-based, ecologically aware education.
• Establish a long-term, sustainable infrastructure for garden-based education at UBC and the Lower Mainland via the Cultivating Learning Network in partnership with Intergenerational Landed Learning on the UBC Farm and other sister and offshoot projects.
• Communicate research results and teaching resources among educators in BC, international garden-based education networks and the wider community.
Once again congratulations Susan, Jolie, Andrew, Julia, Chessa and Kate for this great success!
Dr. Samson Madera Nashon
Associate Professor & Acting Head & Graduate Adviser