Teacher appreciation day in Kansas
To continue the tradition of appreciating the efforts of teachers everyday in school, many schools in Kansas have just celebrated its Teacher Appreciation Day with lots of highlights.
The teacher appreciation day celebration is jointly coordinated by the Kansas City Environmental Education Network (KCEEN) and the Kansas City Zoo. It was a very memorable highlight for teachers and administrators as they were given free admission as well as their immediate families to the tours of Africa and Australia exhibits, different rides, sneak peak at the education resources of the zoo, and they were also given giveaways.
The tour at the zoo started at around 9:00 in the morning until 5:00 in the afternoon which really educated participating students who are also immediate families of the school administrators and teachers. It was learned that the zoo management has been helping public schools by giving them also free tours at the zoo like what they did to the school administrators and their educators.
The KCEEN is also helping teachers to set up educational resources so that they will become more effective in imparting the environmental knowledge to their students. There would be hand on programs which the KCEEN would introduce to the teachers for this project.
Matt Riggs, KCEEN coordinator said the said tour at the zoo was a great opportunity to give more knowledge to teachers about the importance of green environment in their efforts to protect wild life as well as preserve the remaining forest and protect endangered animals.
He said with the kids learning about the natural world during this activity, the KCEEN organization should be encourage to do of the same project as it is really very helpful for the teachers and students.
KCEEN has been widely known in the Kansas City area as an association of environmentalists that are now campaigning at expanding the knowledge of the communities as far as environmental education programs.
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