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School program Field Teacher/Naturalists are hired for their experience
working with children, interest in teaching youth about
the environment, positive attitude, and willingness to take initiative.
All are college graduates, some are certified teachers, and
they all share enthusiasm for teaching children
outdoors. Often several staff members are international, generally from Europe,
Canada, or South America.
With an average staff to student ratio of one to
12 students, we can help you meet a variety of educational
objectives. While Field Teachers have the freedom to
teach the material in
their own creative way, they are all trained to cover the same
goals, objectives, and concepts laid out
for each lesson. That way you can be assured that students
with different Field Teachers have been exposed to the same
material.
Student safety is the highest priority. Criminal Background Checks are just one part of the
multi-step hiring
process. Each Field
Teacher holds CPR and First Aid certifications and carries a first aid kit and a Nextel radio/phone for
communication. When children are in residence a
registered nurse is on site part-time each day and on call 24
hours a day. West Greenwich Rescue located 3.5 miles
from the Environmental Education Center provides emergency
transportation when needed to Kent Hospital in Warwick or
Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence. Our support staff—cooks, cooks
helpers, custodians, maintenance, office staff and nurse—work
year round to insure the safety and quality of our
programs.
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