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| OUT8162 - Education Programs for Youth: School's Out |
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| This course presents participants with the elements of designing outdoor programs for youth (e.g., after-school, day, and residential camps and weekend programs) in a non-formal setting, such as a wildlife refuge, park, etc. This course offers opportunities to create or modify exciting, safe, natural resource-focused youth programs that help to address site missions and/or management objectives. Participants will use a program design model to work on their own youth program during the course, then complete and implement it as a required post-course assignment. |
| College Credit |
1 semester hour |
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| Who Should Attend: |
Outdoor recreation planners, park rangers, refuge/hatchery managers, refuge operations specialists, or any other land management employees who offer or wish to offer non-formal youth education programs in an outdoor natural setting. |
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- Explain how your youth program meets your site’s mission
- Describe steps in planning and designing an outdoor education youth program
- Develop techniques for building staff leadership
- Demonstrate activities that will rapidly build youth and staff cohesiveness
- Outline a plan for an outdoor youth program at your site
- Implement an environmental education strategy on-site (on public land) or off-site (at schools, youth clubs, etc.)
- Present a sample component from your program plan to other course participants.
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| Length: 3 days/21 hours |
Availability: Every other year |
Contact: |
Julie Study |
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Julie_Study@fws.gov |
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304/876 7651 |
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Last Updated: June 12, 2009
National Conservation Training Center
698 Conservation Way
Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443-9713
Webmaster email: NCTC_webmaster@fws.gov |
