PLT Training & Online Courses

Online PD Workshops Offered by Virginia Project Learning Tree

National PLT offers a number of online workshops. These range in cost from $25 - $40 per workshop. Due to generous grants from the Virginia Forestry Educational Foundation, Virginia PLT is able to offer these workshops to you for $11. You will be able to register and pay this fee online. Once you have registered and paid you will receive an access code to take the online course.

So what does this PD look like? For each course there will be three components:

I. Video Conferencing call with a PLT Facilitator

• • Introductions, Ice Breaker Activity, Discussion and Questions

II. Take the online course at your own speed, but with a set deadline. You will receive a copy of the guide as an E-book and you will be able to print out a certificate of completion with hours for recertification points.

III. Video Conferencing call with a PLT Facilitator

• • Debrief the activities presented in the online course: What did you find most useful about the activity? What did you learn by doing this activity? How could you use it to support your curriculum? How could/would you adapt it to best suit you? How could the activity support math? Language arts? Social studies/geography? Art? PE? What is the value of an activity like this in engaging your learners? We want to emphasize the cross-curricular nature of PLT activities as much as possible. Sharing of other PLT activities that support your curriculum and SOLs. 

  • Sharing of other PLT activities that support your curriculum and SOLs.

The following courses are offered online and are linked to a description on the national PLT website. Virginia PLT is happy to offer all of these courses in the format as described above. 

• Environmental Education for Kindergarten to Grade 8 

• Treemendous Science! for Grades K-2 

• Energy In Ecosystems for Grades 3-5

• Carbon & Climate for Grades 6-8 

• Early Childhood 

• GreenSchools 

To register for any publicized Blended Online Workshop please fill out the Participant Information Form and select “PLT Workshop Information”.  For more detailed instructions, see How to Complete the Online Workshop Participant Information Form. On the form you will need to indicate which workshop and the date. 

To pay the $11 workshop fee for any Blended Online PLT workshop, please go to:

https://project-learning-tree.odoo.com/event/asynchronous-online-workshop-22/register 

After completing your blended online workshop, please complete this Evaluation. Evaluations are important to us for many reasons.  

• They offer a chance for continued PLT improvement.

• They are important to funders.

• The comments are particularly helpful for facilitators to make adjustments and improvements for future PD events.