Alcoa Community Foundation working with the Friends of the Smokies is providing teachers with a 6-week paid work experience in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The pilot program is designed to help teachers to enhance student’s learning and apperication for our national parks. Teachers are donning park ranger uniforms and are working side by side with park employees. They are developing new skills through on-the-job experiences dealing with resource management activities and working with the visitor/children’s program.
They are also assisting in enhancing the K-8 Parks as Classrooms program as well as developing new curriclum to bring this program into area high schools.
Smoky Mountain Classrooms are environmental education programs available to area schools in North Carolina and Tennessee. The programs utilize park rangers as primary instructors with assistance from teachers.
The park’s outdoor “classrooms” become the teaching resource. These K-8 programs reflect North Carolina and Tennessee curriculum objectives and educational goals. There is no charge for these programs.
For more information on the Great Smoky Mountains’s Parks as Classroom program visit the National Park Service.
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