Training and Professional Development

  • The Environment Corps: an engaged...(in Two Parts)

      

    Please join your UConn colleagues for two one-hour virtual CETL workshops in April on:

     

    The Environment Corps: an engaged scholarship model that combines classroom instruction, service learning and Extension (an act in two parts)

     

    Presenter: Chet Arnold, Dept. of Extension and Center for Land Use Education and Research
    Marisa Chrysochoou, Civil and Environmental Engineering
    Mike Dietz, Dept. of Extension and CT Institute of Water Resources
    Bruce Hyde, Dept. of Extension and Center for Land Use Education and Research
    Chad Schroeder and Sarah Schechter, former E-Corps students
    Sarah Schechter, Environmental Program student

     

    Workshop Description:

    A partnership at UConn that reaches across college and departmental lines is engaged in a project that seeks to enhance, expand, institutionalize, and study a new model for experiential learning and community engagement. The model, called the Environment Corps (“E-Corps”), combines familiar elements of classroom instruction, service learning, and extension outreach to create a method of engagement that aims to benefit students, faculty, surrounding communities, and the university community itself. This two-part series will review E-Corps structure, operation, results, and early lessons learned. 

    Þ Part One will focus on course design, faculty development, and pedagogical strategies for engaged student learning; attendees will hear from instructors and students of the three current E-Corps courses.

    Friday, April 9, 2:00 – 3:00 pm           Focus on the Classroom

    Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2000

     

    Þ Part Two will focus on building community partnerships and designing appropriate student projects, including several examples; attendees will hear from additional instructors and our municipal “clients.” Both sessions will set aside ample time for discussion.

    Friday, April 23, 2:00 – 3:00 pm         Focus on Community Projects

    Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2001

     

     

     

    https://ecorps.initiative.uconn.edu/

    For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu