{"id":381,"date":"2013-04-22T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/?p=381"},"modified":"2013-04-22T12:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:13:56","slug":"internship-educating-children-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/04\/22\/internship-educating-children-outdoors\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERNSHIP:  Educating Children Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>ECO<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<b>Educating Children Outdoors Internship<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier is looking for an energetic and motivated intern to be a part of Educating Children Outdoors for the 2013-2014 academic school year.\u00a0 The intern will enjoy working with elementary aged children, be charismatic, take initiative, stand out as a leader, be willing to learn and share best practices and follow safety protocols put in place by the North Branch Nature Center.<\/p>\n<p>ECO connects children with the natural world and helps foster stewardship in their communities.\u00a0 Through collaboration with public schools ECO helps to open doors to the joy of learning outside in all kinds of weather. By using city parks, public lands, and other local green spaces ECO engages children in the natural inquiry based learning of their surrounding environment. ECO provides an opportunity for teachers and students to apply integrated academic curricula beyond the classroom to the outdoors for exploration, experimentation, creativity, and personal growth.<\/p>\n<p>Each week the intern will volunteer their time and work in a public school with a lead ECO teacher.\u00a0 There are currently 5 Central Vermont schools participating in ECO (Montpelier, East Montpelier, Moretown, Waitsfield and Plainfield).\u00a0 Depending on the availability of the intern, the hours are flexible and can be 4 to 12 hours a week.<\/p>\n<p>The intern\u2019s responsibilities, shared with the ECO and classroom teachers, will be but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planning with the ECO and school teachers<\/li>\n<li>Writing lessons aligned with the Vermont State Standards and Common Core<\/li>\n<li>Participating in a debrief after each ECO session<\/li>\n<li>Leading students in games<\/li>\n<li>Tending a fire and practice all safety protocol<\/li>\n<li>Telling stories<\/li>\n<li>Leading small groups in an exploration related to the lesson of the day<\/li>\n<li>Bringing enthusiasm and love of learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this time this is an unpaid internship.\u00a0 Volunteers will gain valuable insight and experience working in a public school setting engaging students in inquiry based learning outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>If interested, please contact:<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Aube<br \/>\nCurriculum Coordinator<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Jennaaube1@gmail.com\">Jennaaube1@gmail.com<br \/>\n<\/a>802.476.7122<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECO \u00a0Educating Children Outdoors Internship The North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier is looking for an energetic and motivated intern to be a part of Educating Children Outdoors for the 2013-2014 academic school year.\u00a0 The intern will enjoy working with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/2013\/04\/22\/internship-educating-children-outdoors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46462,46458,46475],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-coast","category-internships","category-vermontnew-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}