Facilitator's Corner
- Teach professional adults
about forestry education and motivate them to use forests
as a focus for teaching youngsters
- Contribute to your
community's understanding of forests and forest related
issues
- Gain hands-on experience
teaching adults in a supportive learning environment
- Attend on-going training
sessions to learn new skills in forestry education,
communication, and field techniques
- Find out the latest
information on forest research and management
- Become an integral part of
an international network of professionals in the fields of
forestry, natural resources, education and interpretation
- Explore parks, forests, tree
farms, arboretums, mills and other interesting places in
your community
- A dedication to an unbiased
approach to forestry education
- A desire to utilize your
skills and experience to further forestry education
efforts in Oregon
- A willingness to learn and
apply new skills gained by attending ongoing training
sessions
- A commitment to conduct at
least two 6 hour Project Learning Tree workshops within
the 2000-01 academic year.
 A
facilitator serves as a guide, helping workshop
participants gain a better understanding about the PLT
program, its methodologies, and potential impacts on
children's environmental awareness and understanding. As a
facilitator, you set the stage for learning and encourage
participants to explore and develop as professionals. Your
role is to help people feel comfortable in the group, to
listen as much or more than you talk, and to help others
understand what they have learned.
- A PLT workshop facilitator
must put his or her biases and interests aside. This is
admittedly difficult because many of the issues we talk
about and many of the PLT activities we work with touch
meaningful aspects in our own lives. It is important that
you help participants make their own observations,
interpretations, and conclusions and to assist them in
discovering the potential PLT holds for them as educators.
- The workshop format should
show school teachers how to use PLT to teach science,
math, language arts, social sciences, art, health and
physical education. Non-school educators such as outdoor
school teachers, interpreters, docents, or youth
organization leaders should be shown how PLT can be used
to enhance or compliment their work with both children and
adults.
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