The Tiorati Workshop is a nature center and learning laboratory. At the Tiorati Workshop, we prepare you to include nature studies and environmental learning in your classroom program. The central experience of the program happens at our nature center in Bear Mountain State Park, but preparing you and your students starts before the visits, and the learning continues afterwards. We want the Tiorati experience to have a lasting impact on your classroom.

Tiorati courses and workshops teach content through inquiry. We ask you to reflect on your own learning experience and develop a teaching practice that is sensitive to the development of children and their differing learning styles.

You bring your class to Tiorati during the school year. The learning experiences for children model an active inquiry approach where the study of the natural world is integrated across the curriculum.

Children really learn to do science when they carry on active inquiries as part of their on-going classroom program. We support you to adopt the approaches you learn at Tiorati to your own classroom program. Together, we plan for classroom management, inquiries for children around science concepts, curriculum integration, and use of the outdoor resources of the school.

We suggest how to involve parents in the programs at Tiorati. This is a wonderful way for classroom and home learning to connect.

Tiorati combines the components of its Program-for-Schools uniquely for each school district. We design teacher workshops and courses to meet your school district's needs.


For more information, contact Don Cook, Director, Tiorati Workshop for Environmental Learning, Bank Street College of Education, 310 W112th Street, New York, NY 10025.






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Last Modified: February 15th, 1999
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