Tamsin L. Bomar
Environmental Education and Work Experience
Burlington, NC
[email protected]
205.902.2836
2000-2009 Movement to Music Curriculum
Children's Dance Foundation
1715 27th Court South
Homewood, Alabama 35209
205.870.0073
Outreach Sites: Elizabeth Perry Rushton Child Development Center (NAEYC Accredited); St. Luke's Pre-School Partners, Serving at-risk and under-served preschool children with the skills necessary to achieve school readiness.
Dance Content
National Dance Education Organization Standards(NDEO) for Dance in Early Childhood - developmentally appropriate Goals and Objectives for dance that helps children mature physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively dance concepts and movement skills.
Methodology
Anne Green Gilbert's Brain-Compatible Dance Education approach that teaches dance class structure; gross motor skills development; concept exploration that utilizes multiple intelligences; improvisation to foster creativity.
Environmental Topics
Plant Structures-Function; Patterns in Nature; Pollinator-Plant Relationships, Plant and Bug Life-cycles; Seasons; Weather patterns.
2007-2008 Dance to Grow Studio Classes (4 year olds)
Through a play oriented method of learning, Movement-to-Music, children can be led to body awareness, translation of sounds, direction, rhythms, and the use of their imagination. (Excerpt from the introductory manual, Dance to Grow)
In the Dance to Grow studio classes, children experience a story-based curriculum that fosters cognitive, as well as physical and emotional skills in a supportive, noncompetitive group environment.
Science Teaching Residency: Arts Education in the schools (4th Grade)
2005-2008 6-Week Arts Education Residencies at elementary schools in Birmingham City Schools, Homewood City Schools, and Jefferson County Schools that included
* A Structured Dance Class compatible with National Dance Education Organization Standards.
* Creative exploration of movement principles and possibilities
* Science concept exploration through kinaesthetic intelligence/movement
* Individual and group choreography - dance making
* Experience revising choreographic ideas through group critique
* Performance experience through final performance
* Group choreographic project work
Methodology: Anne Green Gilbert's Brain-Compatible Dance Education
Science Concepts: Physics; Energy; Animal Behavior; Habitats; Alabama Watersheds (Black Warrior River); Ecosystems; Earth Science; Gravity.
Assessment Rubrics: Pre- and Post-Tests; Weekly review of dance concepts and choreographic sections; rehearsals and critiques; final performance.
Program Director: Mary Foshee
July 2008 Fresh Air Family Summer Workshop, Get Bugged!
Parnell Memorial Library
Montevallo, AL 35115
3 Day Tree Mapping Activity that drew upon kinaesthetic, visual, artistic, naturalist, interpersonal/intrapersonal intelligences, literary intelligences as a way of defining and describing a sense of place.
Kinaesthetic: Student-pairs were given the task of creating a pathway around each one of at least a dozen trees on the property of the library.
Visual/Naturalist: Students were then given the job of finding ways to remember the individual trees contained within that pathway
Visual/Artistic: Student-pairs drew pictures of their maps indicating the sequence in which they circled or included each tree along the pathway and how they remembered each tree.
Interpersonal: Students worked in groups of two.
Intrapersonal: Students had to find individual ways of remembering each tree.
Literary: Students wrote in their journals about the activity.
Objectives: Close observation of nature.
Personal connection with plants.
Group cooperation.
Using senses to create a sense of place.
Mapping
Bibliography: David Sobel, Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for
the Elementary Years (1998).
Fall, 2008 Included Nature Writing component in sophomore level course, Introduction to Literature (216),
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac used as the nonfiction text in
an introduction to literature for sophomore college students.
Writing assignments utilized materials from the Leopold Education Project
that emphasized close observation of nature; written personal experiences of nature; qualitative versus quantitative nature writing; literary analysis; in some cases, a final written effort that incorporated personal experience of nature with analysis of the text.
Critical Thinking/writing skills achieved through this curriculum application:
* Cause-Effect
* Sequential Process
* Inferential Thinking
* Summarizing and Analyzing Evidence
* Interpret vocabulary meaning from context
* Comparison-Contrast
* Distinguish fact from opinion
* Evaluate reasoning and themes
* Make text-world and text-self connections
Professional Development/Training
Arts Education (Dance/Kinaesthetic Approach)
2009 Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts
Celeste Miller, Curriculum in Motion
Arts Education applications of dance across the elementary and post-secondary curriculum.
2007/2008 Alabama Dance Festival
Anne Green Gilbert, BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education
2006 Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Training
Sponsored by Children's Dance Foundation
Horticulture/Environment
2008 Southeast Native Plant Conference
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham AL
A conference for plant professionals and interested gardeners on the uses of native plants indigenous to the Southeastern state.
Saving Our Water Conference
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham AL
A conference for Birmingham area citizens studying the challenges in water management and conservation in central Alabama
Legacy Environmental Education
Camp McDowell
Nauvoo, AL
Geology for 4th grade and up with Jim Lacefield.
2007 August Natural Learning Initiative, Design for Children IN Nature Conference
Raleigh, NC
The Natural Learning Initiative's 6th Annual Design Institute on the importance for children of contact with nature and design implications for that important contact. Conference events included presentations by noted educational psychologists, design specialists and horticultural therapists on the evidence supporting the value of nature-based activities for children's healthy physical, psychological, and social development.
Attendees included landscape architects, designers, public health professionals, childcare providers, educators, extension agents, master gardeners, parks and recreation professionals, horticultural therapists
July Passed Alabama Landscape Design Licensure Exam
License #psh2346
July The Cullowhee Conferece: Native Plants in the Landscape
Western Caroline University, Cullowhee, NC
A conference on the propagation, identification, and care of Southeast native plants in the natural and constructed landscape for plant professionals and laypersons.
May Audubon Mountain Workshop and Young Naturalist's Program
Mentone, Alabama
In order to promote a better understand indigenous plants and animals, Audubon of Alabama sponsors a yearly camp in Mentone, Alabama for the study of the flora and fauna of region.
January-
July Coursework toward the Associate's Degree in Landscape Technology
Jefferson State Community College
Birmingham, AL
Courses Completed: Introduction to Horticulture; Soil Science; Plant ID, Part 2;
Public Horticulture; Annuals and Perennials.
2006 Private Eye Training: Looking and Thinking by Analogy, Advanced Level
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham, AL
The Private Eye is a science curriculum designed to develop, through hands-on investigative methods of inquiry, critical thinking skills, creativity, literacy, and scientific literacy across the curriculum. Applied to plant study, The Private Eye guides students through close observation of plant structure to hypothesize about the function of plant structures as well as to encourage creative literary and artistic response to patterns evident in nature.
Environmental Education and Work Experience
Burlington, NC
[email protected]
205.902.2836
2000-2009 Movement to Music Curriculum
Children's Dance Foundation
1715 27th Court South
Homewood, Alabama 35209
205.870.0073
Outreach Sites: Elizabeth Perry Rushton Child Development Center (NAEYC Accredited); St. Luke's Pre-School Partners, Serving at-risk and under-served preschool children with the skills necessary to achieve school readiness.
Dance Content
National Dance Education Organization Standards(NDEO) for Dance in Early Childhood - developmentally appropriate Goals and Objectives for dance that helps children mature physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively dance concepts and movement skills.
Methodology
Anne Green Gilbert's Brain-Compatible Dance Education approach that teaches dance class structure; gross motor skills development; concept exploration that utilizes multiple intelligences; improvisation to foster creativity.
Environmental Topics
Plant Structures-Function; Patterns in Nature; Pollinator-Plant Relationships, Plant and Bug Life-cycles; Seasons; Weather patterns.
2007-2008 Dance to Grow Studio Classes (4 year olds)
Through a play oriented method of learning, Movement-to-Music, children can be led to body awareness, translation of sounds, direction, rhythms, and the use of their imagination. (Excerpt from the introductory manual, Dance to Grow)
In the Dance to Grow studio classes, children experience a story-based curriculum that fosters cognitive, as well as physical and emotional skills in a supportive, noncompetitive group environment.
Science Teaching Residency: Arts Education in the schools (4th Grade)
2005-2008 6-Week Arts Education Residencies at elementary schools in Birmingham City Schools, Homewood City Schools, and Jefferson County Schools that included
* A Structured Dance Class compatible with National Dance Education Organization Standards.
* Creative exploration of movement principles and possibilities
* Science concept exploration through kinaesthetic intelligence/movement
* Individual and group choreography - dance making
* Experience revising choreographic ideas through group critique
* Performance experience through final performance
* Group choreographic project work
Methodology: Anne Green Gilbert's Brain-Compatible Dance Education
Science Concepts: Physics; Energy; Animal Behavior; Habitats; Alabama Watersheds (Black Warrior River); Ecosystems; Earth Science; Gravity.
Assessment Rubrics: Pre- and Post-Tests; Weekly review of dance concepts and choreographic sections; rehearsals and critiques; final performance.
Program Director: Mary Foshee
July 2008 Fresh Air Family Summer Workshop, Get Bugged!
Parnell Memorial Library
Montevallo, AL 35115
3 Day Tree Mapping Activity that drew upon kinaesthetic, visual, artistic, naturalist, interpersonal/intrapersonal intelligences, literary intelligences as a way of defining and describing a sense of place.
Kinaesthetic: Student-pairs were given the task of creating a pathway around each one of at least a dozen trees on the property of the library.
Visual/Naturalist: Students were then given the job of finding ways to remember the individual trees contained within that pathway
Visual/Artistic: Student-pairs drew pictures of their maps indicating the sequence in which they circled or included each tree along the pathway and how they remembered each tree.
Interpersonal: Students worked in groups of two.
Intrapersonal: Students had to find individual ways of remembering each tree.
Literary: Students wrote in their journals about the activity.
Objectives: Close observation of nature.
Personal connection with plants.
Group cooperation.
Using senses to create a sense of place.
Mapping
Bibliography: David Sobel, Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for
the Elementary Years (1998).
Fall, 2008 Included Nature Writing component in sophomore level course, Introduction to Literature (216),
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac used as the nonfiction text in
an introduction to literature for sophomore college students.
Writing assignments utilized materials from the Leopold Education Project
that emphasized close observation of nature; written personal experiences of nature; qualitative versus quantitative nature writing; literary analysis; in some cases, a final written effort that incorporated personal experience of nature with analysis of the text.
Critical Thinking/writing skills achieved through this curriculum application:
* Cause-Effect
* Sequential Process
* Inferential Thinking
* Summarizing and Analyzing Evidence
* Interpret vocabulary meaning from context
* Comparison-Contrast
* Distinguish fact from opinion
* Evaluate reasoning and themes
* Make text-world and text-self connections
Professional Development/Training
Arts Education (Dance/Kinaesthetic Approach)
2009 Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts
Celeste Miller, Curriculum in Motion
Arts Education applications of dance across the elementary and post-secondary curriculum.
2007/2008 Alabama Dance Festival
Anne Green Gilbert, BrainDance and Brain-Compatible Dance Education
2006 Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Training
Sponsored by Children's Dance Foundation
Horticulture/Environment
2008 Southeast Native Plant Conference
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham AL
A conference for plant professionals and interested gardeners on the uses of native plants indigenous to the Southeastern state.
Saving Our Water Conference
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham AL
A conference for Birmingham area citizens studying the challenges in water management and conservation in central Alabama
Legacy Environmental Education
Camp McDowell
Nauvoo, AL
Geology for 4th grade and up with Jim Lacefield.
2007 August Natural Learning Initiative, Design for Children IN Nature Conference
Raleigh, NC
The Natural Learning Initiative's 6th Annual Design Institute on the importance for children of contact with nature and design implications for that important contact. Conference events included presentations by noted educational psychologists, design specialists and horticultural therapists on the evidence supporting the value of nature-based activities for children's healthy physical, psychological, and social development.
Attendees included landscape architects, designers, public health professionals, childcare providers, educators, extension agents, master gardeners, parks and recreation professionals, horticultural therapists
July Passed Alabama Landscape Design Licensure Exam
License #psh2346
July The Cullowhee Conferece: Native Plants in the Landscape
Western Caroline University, Cullowhee, NC
A conference on the propagation, identification, and care of Southeast native plants in the natural and constructed landscape for plant professionals and laypersons.
May Audubon Mountain Workshop and Young Naturalist's Program
Mentone, Alabama
In order to promote a better understand indigenous plants and animals, Audubon of Alabama sponsors a yearly camp in Mentone, Alabama for the study of the flora and fauna of region.
January-
July Coursework toward the Associate's Degree in Landscape Technology
Jefferson State Community College
Birmingham, AL
Courses Completed: Introduction to Horticulture; Soil Science; Plant ID, Part 2;
Public Horticulture; Annuals and Perennials.
2006 Private Eye Training: Looking and Thinking by Analogy, Advanced Level
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Birmingham, AL
The Private Eye is a science curriculum designed to develop, through hands-on investigative methods of inquiry, critical thinking skills, creativity, literacy, and scientific literacy across the curriculum. Applied to plant study, The Private Eye guides students through close observation of plant structure to hypothesize about the function of plant structures as well as to encourage creative literary and artistic response to patterns evident in nature.