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East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden Docent Training Program

Tuesday, February 07, 2012
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM

If you enjoy learning about native plants, spending time in a beautiful setting, and teaching, you can help the Regional Parks Botanic Garden share our rich native plant heritage by becoming a garden docent. As a volunteer educator, you’ll help young students understand and appreciate California plant life in an exceptional all-native garden in the Berkeley hills. No prior experience or knowledge is necessary, but we’re especially looking for people who are available on weekdays and interested in leading tours for children.

Docent training covers a broad array of topics, including basic botany and plant identification, plant geography, pollination, ethnobotany, and teaching techniques, and prepares docents to lead tours of the garden. Each session features a lecture/slide show followed by a walk in the garden. The primary instructor is Dr. Glenn Keator, a highly respected botanist, educator, and author of books on native plants.

Being a docent has many benefits, including free continuing education classes and field trips as well as the intangible rewards of sharing a child’s joy of discovery or enriching a visitor’s experience of the garden. 

Tuesdays, January 10–May 29, 2012

9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Regional Parks Botanic Garden Wildcat Canyon Road at South Park Drive,Tilden Regional Park, in the Berkeley hills

$155 for the training course and text

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact Glenn Keator

510-527-9802 / gkeator@aol.com

TO REGISTER:

Contact Teresa LeYung Ryan

510-544-3169 / bgarden@ebparks.org

 

Docent training is limited to 15 participants; register soon to be sure of a space.

Event Type(s): courses outings lectures

Cost: $155

Location:
Wildcat Canyon Road at South Park Drive, Berkeley, CA
Google Map (always check directions with organizer)

Sponsor:
East Bay Regional Park District

Event Contact:
Glenn Keator
gkeator@aol.com
510-527-9802

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