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6/24/2009
Georgia teachers to spread the forestry message |
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As the Georgia Forestry Foundation's 2009 Teacher Conservation Workshop (TCW) got underway on at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center in Jasper County on June 22, thirty teachers were asked this question: How many students can you impact with the information and materials that you take away from this workshop, both directly and indirectly? The responses and their implications for student impact over the five year history of TCW are stunning.
Teacher responses indicate that, on average, each teacher can 'directly' impact 297 students during a single school year. The average 'indirect' impact climbs to an incredible 826 students. Extrapolated over the five workshops held since 2005, the 150 teachers who have completed TCW potentially reached 44,500 students directly with material describing the benefits of forests and their value to our world. Indirectly, as many as 124,000 Georgia students could have been impacted by that message - in each school year!
According to the Georgia Forestry Association's Carla Rapp, co-director of TCW, these numbers are both encouraging and instructive.
"Knowing that the teacher training that takes place at TCW eventually reaches so many young people is rewarding," says Rapp. "It also heightens the staff's sense of responsibility to do its work well, accurately and with integrity."
"Nothing less than the future of our forests and a responsible approach to managing our natural resources is at stake," she concluded.
Teachers attending this year's workshop will learn in a classroom setting, participate in outdoor education activities and travel to tree farms and forest product manufacturing facilities during the week long training event. The workshop concludes on Friday, June 26.
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