A
Wonderfully Successful
Event in 2003-04
 Wake
up to the call of a loon! Spend two nights in the
former
summer home of the Vanderbilt family! YOU ARE INVITED TO
PARTICIPATE
IN A VERY SPECIAL WEEKEND, immersed in Adirondack arts, culture, and
environment.
You will have the opportunity to develop unique instructional
activities,
"Adirondack Challenges", connecting the Adirondacks to New York
State
Visual & Performing Arts Standards, for use in your own
classroom.
Organized by the Adirondack Curriculum Project,
with support from the
Institute for Learning
Centered
Education, and funded in part through an Arts Learning Grant from
the National
Endowment for the Arts, this weekend will be offered to 20
Adirondack
area teachers (10 Art and 10 Music ) at NO COST. Meals, lodging, and a
stipend of $250 will be provided to each teacher participating.
The mission of the Adirondack Curriculum Project
is to "help foster
better public understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of the
Adirondack
region’s natural and cultural resources by providing educational
resources
and training opportunities for educators." The ACP web site
(www.adkcurriculum.org)
has an ever expanding collection of links and resources for teachers.
The
concept of an "Adirondack Challenge" , based on Constructivist
philosophy,
is a student-centered, problem-solving instructional activity
that
includes some connection to the Adirondacks.
You are invited to be a part of this exciting
weekend that will provide
training in the development of "Adirondack Challenges" . Experienced
"teacher
facilitators" will help you create a Challenge to use in
your
own classroom. Resource people (artists and performers) will also be
available
for the entire weekend. A trip to the nearby Adirondack Museum will be
the opening activity on Friday afternoon, and the remainder of the
weekend
will be spent outdoors and around the beautiful Great
Camp Sagamore near Racquette Lake, NY. Adirondack singer-songwriter
Dan Berggren will perform Saturday evening.
Only 20 teachers will be participating.
Complete the application
form and mail to the ACP by JUNE 21. Additional details
will
be added to our website: www.adkcurriculum.org and mailed to
participants.
If you have any questions, please contact: Sandy Hildreth, Project
Co-Director
(ART), (315) 353-2210, shildreth@roadrunner.com
or Kathy Hargis, Project Co-Director (MUSIC), (518) 664-8099, trptsrkool@aol.com.
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