Next course tentatively scheduled for Fall 2012
- Cost: $400
- If you are a Cornell Cooperative Extension educator or volunteer, or if you are incorporating gardening into your work with a target audience of military family members, you may be eligible for a discount. Contact Donna Alese Cooke dmc72@cornell.edu for more information before registering.
- Enrollment limited to 30 students.
- Instructors: Donna Alese Cooke with Lori Brewer.
- Questions or to be notified of next course: email Donna Alese Cooke dmc72@cornell.edu
- View full course syllabus.
Purpose:
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Do you work with an audience that targets or includes military family members? For this session there will be a free concurrent weekly hour webinar/conference call on gardening with military family members. Our meet ups will emerge out of needs identified by those participating and may include highlighting benefits, opportunities and resources in garden-based learning of specific interest to educators engaging a military family member audience and opportunities for participants to share and discuss their questions, concerns and barriers engaging an audience including military family members. Read more about the benefits of gardening with military family members. |
Looking to start a school or community-based garden program, but do not know where to begin? This course focuses on the foundations and benefits of garden-based learning, and provides the tools, resources, and collaborative support needed to plan, organize and develop a successful and sustainable gardening program that fits your organization's needs.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course you will:
- Understand the foundations of garden-based learning and its benefits.
- Explore and identify available resources, case studies, research, and successful school and community-based garden programs.
- Utilize logic models to identify program inputs, activities, and desired outcomes.
- Use real world tools to practice and develop a garden-based learning program in alignment with program needs.
- Build a toolbox of resources and portfolio of program planning, deliverables, and strategies for sustainability.
- Utilize strategies to organize a community of volunteers and identify leadership.
- Collaborate to build a community of learners and connect with others and utilize various forms of technology for teaching and learning within a distance-learning online course.
Course Philosophy:
This course is designed to enrich the practice of community-based gardening in schools and communities, for children, youth and adult audiences, and to encourage a network of state and nation-wide educators, volunteers and communities who will learn and grow together.
Our approach:
This course focuses on the foundations and program planning strategies of garden-based learning (GBL), and provides an opportunity to use real world tools to develop a GBL program. Through hands-on learning, participants will become more confident and knowledgeable garden-based educators, will connect with and learn from others with the same purpose, and leave with a toolbox of valuable tools and resources that are easily integrated into schools, youth, adult, or community programs.
Course Timetable at a Glance
- Week 1: Course Introductions
- Week 2: Module 1, Foundations of Garden-Based Learning
- Week 3: Module 2, Program Development
- Week 4: Module 3, Organizing and Implementing a Gardening Program
- Week 5: Module 4, Program Evaluation and Planning for Long-term Sustainability
- Week 6: Module 5, Gardening 101