Mon, Jun 4th, 2012
Ken Bowald, Associate Dean of Natural Resources, was recognized as 2012 Ohio Outstanding Educator at the Project Learning Tree (PLT) International Conference on May 15, 2012.
Bowald, and seven others from Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Nevada, Michigan, and Wyoming, were recognized as the 2012 National PLT Outstanding Educator honorees. As Bowald could not be in attendance to accept the award, Sue Wintering, PLT - Ohio Coordinator, presented him with it in front of a group of his colleagues and students on May 29, 2012 at the Hocking Woods Nature Center.
"Ken does what PLT's founder, Rudy Schaffer of California, many years ago coined: He teaches how to think about environmental issues we face, not what to think," Wintering commented.
Bowald's award nomination lists his multiple achievements in the Natural Resources education field, "Ken Bowald brought PLT to the School of Natural Resources at Hocking College, which has the largest two-year forestry program in the nation. He first incorporated PLT into classes in Natural and Historical Interpretation program, but now actively involved in administration, he partners with others to ensure PLT is an integral curriculum component for all Hocking students."
He is a member of the National Association for Interpretation (NAI) as a certified interpretive trainer and life member. Bowald is the recipient of the NAI 2008 Special Interpretive Recognition and the 1995 Outstanding New Interpreter Award, as well as the PLT-Ohio Outstanding Educator Award in 2011. He was recognized in 2006 with the Hocking College Excellence in Teaching award.
PLT is a program of the American Forest Foundation (AFF), a non-profit organization that works for healthy forests, quality environmental education and informed decision making about our communities and our world. PLT was developed by classroom teachers and other educators, as well as by representatives of conservation and forestry groups.
Bowald, and seven others from Texas, South Carolina, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Nevada, Michigan, and Wyoming, were recognized as the 2012 National PLT Outstanding Educator honorees. As Bowald could not be in attendance to accept the award, Sue Wintering, PLT - Ohio Coordinator, presented him with it in front of a group of his colleagues and students on May 29, 2012 at the Hocking Woods Nature Center.
"Ken does what PLT's founder, Rudy Schaffer of California, many years ago coined: He teaches how to think about environmental issues we face, not what to think," Wintering commented.
Bowald's award nomination lists his multiple achievements in the Natural Resources education field, "Ken Bowald brought PLT to the School of Natural Resources at Hocking College, which has the largest two-year forestry program in the nation. He first incorporated PLT into classes in Natural and Historical Interpretation program, but now actively involved in administration, he partners with others to ensure PLT is an integral curriculum component for all Hocking students."
He is a member of the National Association for Interpretation (NAI) as a certified interpretive trainer and life member. Bowald is the recipient of the NAI 2008 Special Interpretive Recognition and the 1995 Outstanding New Interpreter Award, as well as the PLT-Ohio Outstanding Educator Award in 2011. He was recognized in 2006 with the Hocking College Excellence in Teaching award.
PLT is a program of the American Forest Foundation (AFF), a non-profit organization that works for healthy forests, quality environmental education and informed decision making about our communities and our world. PLT was developed by classroom teachers and other educators, as well as by representatives of conservation and forestry groups.
