About
Facilitator: Margie Pines
Participants in the Nature Educators Cohort will explore what spirituality looks like in young children and discuss tools to help them make a spiritual connection to their environment. Participants will also be able to link specific Jewish values to those explorations.
Goals: Participants in the Nature Educators Cohort will explore what spirituality looks like in young children and discuss tools to help children make a spiritual connection to their environment. Participants will be able to link specific Jewish values to those explorations.
We will look at methods to assess participant’s sites and address how those methods can be used to encourage children to engage in various types of outdoor play.
Participants will discuss barriers to outdoor play such as the weather or adequate gear and find ways to help alleviate those barriers. The Cohort will also develop safety protocols and consider sustainability issues involved in outdoor play.
We will review current research which can be used to help families and other educators learn about the importance of outdoor play for young children.
Participants will also revisit Jewish holiday stories to see how they are connected to nature and explore how to tell these stories outside and celebrate the holidays in nature.
Dates & Time
Six sessions | 90 mins Per Session
Tuesdays at 7:00 pm Eastern
(6:00 Central, 5:00 Mountain, 4:00 Pacific)
September 10, 2024
September 24, 2024
October 8, 2024
October 29, 2024
November 12, 2024
November 26, 2024
Cost: $400
Virtual Meetings via Zoom
About the Facilitator
Margie Pines is passionate about both Jewish early childhood and outdoor education. In June of 2019 Margie started Ta’am Teva, a nonprofit organization that offers outdoor education for 3-6 year old children through a Jewish lens. Margie completed a certificate in Nature Based Early Childhood Education from Antioch University in the fall of 2020 and has presented at numerous conferences over the past five years.