Professional Development – Uncommonly Common: A Thank You
I’d like to extend a thank
you to the Friends of Schoharie
Crossing for sponsoring both mine and Site Director Janice Fontanella’s
attendance to the New York State Education Center’s Office of Cultural
Education 2014 conference – Uncommon Approaches to the Common Core this
past August 12th & 13th.
While cultural educators have long engaged children as well
as adults in the most fundamental ways, above all being to ask questions and
seek answers, this gave us the opportunity to discover different methods of
incorporating the standards within the Common Core in the development of
programing here at Schoharie Crossing.
Additionally, those elements of standards that we have already contained
within our site visit and outreach programs we may now better identify for
teachers, administrators, school boards and other organizations.
I believe it was also beneficial to represent NYS Office ofParks, Recreation & Historic Preservation among the attendees of other
cultural institutions as well as educators and librarians as a source of
learning in practicum with standardized modules. The resources Schoharie Crossing may provide
for learning purposes is astonishing, but the connection to those in the
education community is a vital component.
Through attending this conference, Janice and I also established greater
networking with those within similar cultural education programs.
Most importantly however is a greater understanding of the
Common Core and methods that others –whether they are educational institutions
or museums & libraries – have developed to meet those standards while
engaging children and fostering a sense of passion for learning and
community.
Again, Thank You
to the Friends of Schoharie Crossing,
whom used funds from patron donations and membership dues to further the
mission of this site by paying for professional development that will better
enable us to educate those that visit the site, and those we visit in our
outreach programming.
Best regards,
David Brooks
Education Coordinator
Ph. (518) 829-7516
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