Preschool Beyond Walls: Integrating nature into the preschool classroom
This recorded edWebinar helps early childhood providers, no matter their situation, consider the principles fundamental to a nature-based approach and integrate those principles into teaching practice. These high-quality nature-based early childhood education (NbECE) practices don’t happen overnight, but rather occur through daily programmatic and teaching decisions.
Using a continuum of NbECE as the overarching framework, Dr. Rachel Larimore provides concrete ways to better integrate nature into your program structure, physical environment (inside and outside), and teacher-child interactions. Viewers will leave the edWebinar with tangible ideas that can be implemented the next day as well as some ideas that can be worked toward into the future. This recorded presentation will be of interest to preK-3 teachers, librarians, and school and district leaders.
This webinar is located on the edWebinar website. Click here to listen now!
Ready to go deeper?
Evaluating Natureness: Measuring the Quality of Nature-Based Classrooms in Pre-K through 3rd Grade is here to help! Designed with early education practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in mind, the Nature-Based Education Rating Scales (NABERS) for Pre-K and K–3 let professionals easily collect standardized information to measure the quality of education settings.
Interested in more resources like this? Check out The Grove!
The Grove is a place for nature-based early childhood educators to grow and learn together. Hosted by Samara Early Learning, this membership program, provides you with a community to connect with other nature-based educators and resources to improve your nature-based teaching. Features include an extensive library of downloadable documents, step-by-step guides for integrating nature into your classroom, monthly live calls, and opportunities for 1-on-1 conversations with Dr. Rachel Larimore. Click here to learn more!
