Working with Administrators

Your institution should be prepared to provide administrators with the following:

• Standards based programming
• Close fit with school’s curricula
• Multidisciplinary approaches
• Links to math and literacy
• Cost effective programs
• Flexibility of scheduling
• Quality materials that teachers can take back to their classroom
• Highly trained instructors
• Empirical data / outcome based evaluations
• Programs that will reflect well on the school
• Programs that will make teachers and parents enthusiastic
• Well-organized field study visits
• Clear definition of objectives and outcomes
• Ability to involve parents in the learning experience

Approaching administrators:

• Build personal relationships with them
• Invite them and their staffs to your institution to highlight available learning opportunities ; give them an insider view of your institution
• Hold principal meetings at your institution
• Become involved in curriculum committees and science instruction panels at your local schools or districts
• Follow-up and remain determined; sometimes a multiple approach is required