Castle in the Clouds Teacher Advisory Group (C-TAG)
Castle in the Clouds Teachers Advisory Group
Castle in the Clouds (CITC) seeks teachers from New Hampshire and its surrounding states to be members of the Castle Teacher Advisory Group (C-TAG). We welcome applicants from primary and secondary schools.
C-TAG is a group of educators who meets 6 times throughout the year to foster collaboration and learning among teachers and museum educators, discuss and research topics related to school and museum education, collectively facilitate, discuss and evaluate experiments in teaching practice and host roundtable discussions.
Current work:
Creation and approval of new grade-specific field trips and Castle in the Classroom programs such as Environmental Observation field trip add-on for grades 3-5, the Orienteering Scavenger Hunt field trip add on for grades 6-8, and the Becoming a Tour Guide Castle in the Classroom Program for grades 9-12.
Castle in the Clouds gratefully acknowledges these generous funders for their support of our Educational Programming Initiatives:
Marriott Daughters Foundation
The Eppes-Jefferson Foundation
The Foss Family Foundation
The Allan and Gail Gerrish Fund
The Haynes Family Foundation
The Kathleen B. and Charles R. Walgreen III Foundation
Past work:
After working towards creating basic field trip and general school programming that would benefit all grade levels, C-TAG created a Castle Curriculum that would help guide the creation of future school Programming.
Goals:
- Identify school visit needs in terms of both content/topics and grade level
- Advise CITC Education Team as they work towards developing school “trunk” programs in best practices and methodology
- Advise Education Team as they work towards developing school field trips (on site programs) in best practices and methodology
- Advise Education Team as they work towards developing virtual school visits in best practices and methodology
- Test out pilot programs and provide ongoing feedback to help improve CITC school-related offerings
- Identify Marketing techniques and help implement them in order to connect more schools with CITC
Term:
The inaugural group meets bi-monthly for a 1-year commitment. Each additional term is a one-year commitment with a 5 year term limit.
Meeting Location:
Meetings are hybrid, with some members joining us online, and others from the Winnipesaukee Room in the Carriage House.
Incentives:
- Snacks/meals at meetings
- Complimentary CITC Family membership
- Free admission for students to attend one on-site field trip or Castle in the Classroom trunk program each year
- 2 complimentary CITC admission passes per meeting attended
- $100 stipend per attended meeting
- Discounted teacher programming fees
- Professional development opportunity
Applications will be reviewed and candidates selected to represent a diverse range of educator experience and expertise. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
