RTPI's education staff work with teachers and administrators of Advanced Learning Programs or Gifted and Talented Programs in both the school-day and after-school settings, in order to provide outdoor, natural science and place-based curriculum and instruction.

Let RTPI help you develop an inquiry-based science program and learning environment that addresses the National Science Education Standards by hosting our one-day Nature Journal Teacher Professional Development Seminar.

Most people use maps only to help them get to a destination by the shortest possible route, or for learning the geography of a place on a large scale. But maps are also powerful tools for understanding the characteristics that make every place on earth unique.

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute's Teaming with Nature Program is designed to equip teachers to use their home ground as a source for curriculum. At its core is a set of outdoor-based, firsthand teaching and learning strategies that focus on a one-square- kilometer area surrounding the school.

For Home Educators

Home Educators are an important part of our education community and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute is here to help with science education classes taught right here at the Institute.

Make learning for your students come alive! This online seminar for teachers in both formal and informal education settings will introduce you to nature journals as a way to get the most out of the outdoors as a context for learning. You will learn powerful yet easy-to-teach techniques that will improve your students' abilities to make accurate observations and record what they see with notes and sketches. You will discover how these skills pay off in many ways including more productive scientific inquiry and writing.

Professional Development Seminar for Teachers

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute is developing a new seminar to help teachers get the most out of their science curriculum.

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute's NaturKind program connects nature to early childhood education. RTPI developed the program in collaboration with early childhood education experts at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California.