Free Teacher Workshops
SCRAP offers teachers and educators free monthly workshops to learn how to incorporate sustainability and creative reuse in their everyday classroom practices! Each workshops comes with a $25 gift certificate to SCRAP.
Free Teacher Workshop Lineup - Fall 2024
Free Teacher Workshop: Creative Tinkering in the Classroom
with Avril Landes
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Tuesday, Oct 15th
Creative thinking is an invaluable skill that results from tinkering with loose parts and open-ended materials. In this workshop we will engage with loose parts, and experience for ourselves the possibilities they afford. Those include collaboration, innovation, self-regulation, intrinsic motivation, natural curiosity, amongst many others! Additionally, because there are no direct instructions to follow, no "right or wrong," creative tinkering is low-risk and allows children to engage in higher-level thinking with the least amount of pressure. Participants in this workshop can expect to tinker, play and even create something of their own. They will also learn ways to introduce loose parts into their classrooms and how to utilize them to teach any areas of curriculum. After a brief welcome and introduction, participants will rotate through the multiple stations. Before moving on to their next station participants will engage in brief, small-group reflections with their tablemates.
Our Free Teacher Workshops qualify as Prop G Hours!
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WE ARE LOOKING FOR AN EDUCATOR TO HELP US WITH OUR FREE TEACHER WORKSHOP PROGRAM!
We are seeking a SCRAP-loving teacher to assist in teaching our workshops for SF educators. We seek applicants with experience teaching in K-12 classrooms (preferably public school) as well as some background providing professional development to adult learners. Curriculum is focused on hands-on projects and creative reuse to enliven the classroom and deepen student engagement. Applicants should come with ideas for projects as well as an open-mind towards collaborating with other instructors.
Workshops take place after school, evenings and sometimes weekends with a small group of educators in our SCRAP classroom. Materials are sourced from the SCRAP depot; the instructor will select materials to be used in the workshop and to inspire participants towards greater use of SCRAP as a classroom resource. All grade-levels (K-12) and subject areas are welcome. We prefer applicants with a range of creative ideas and demonstrated enthusiasm for hands-on joyful learning experiences.
TO APPLY, EMAIL DANIELLE GRANT/danielle@scrap-sf.org with your CV and brief letter of interest.