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Training Informal Education Volunteers to Talk

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January 19, 2023 ApproachBrittany SabolCommunicationDialogic DiscourseDiscourseTrainingVolunteers

Volunteers are essential to the missions of many informal education organizations. But unlike relatively-unskilled volunteer positions – think repairing trails or passing out food at a soup kitchen – the volunteer educator has one of the most demanding job descriptions there is: teaching. Training volunteers to be...

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Volunteers in Classrooms: A Chat With Trainer Brittany Sabol

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January 17, 2023 PodcastBrittany SabolCommunicationDialogic DiscourseDiscourseInquiryTrainingVolunteers

On this week’s podcast, I meet Brittany Sabol, the training director at Environmental Volunteers. EV is an organization that turns everyday folks into extraordinary informal educators who go into classrooms to provide science enrichments. Working with volunteers is a huge part of many informal education sites – they...

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