 
FACILITATOR RESOURCESWelcome Facilitators! On this page, you will find links to all of the supporting documents that you need to successfully hold a workshop. If you have any questions about any of the material, or just general questions about the workshop process, please contact the PLT-Ohio Coordinator at 614.265.6675 or program intern at 614.265.6701 or email plt@dnr.state.oh.us. Be sure that you are registered onto the Ohio PLT Facilitator group on Google Groups and the national PLT site. Also please sign up for the PLT On-Line Community. Encourage other educators and your workshop participants to tap these resources at www.plt.org. This includes reading and multi-media connections, The BRANCH newsletter, activity supports, on-line modules, student pages, etc. As always, thank you for your valuable time and efforts!
This handbook was created by the national PLT offices and individualized for Ohio. Take a look for suggestions on holding workshops, sample documents, and workshop protocol. It has ideas for planning for and managing a workshop. It was revised in 2009, and some more current documents are shown below. This Handbook also includes PLT’s history for your reference. (Note: This document is over one hundred pages and therefore we do not recommend printing it).
This brochure insert provides an overview of the PLT-Ohio program and has the State Coordinator’s information provided on the back. This is a good resource to pass along to those who are interested in learning more about PLT-Ohio.
Getting Ready for a Workshop
To begin the process of hosting a workshop, just fill out a copy of this form and send it to the PLT-Ohio office at least 3-4 weeks in advance of your scheduled workshop. As a good note of caution, please turn in a proposal as soon as you’re aware that a workshop could take place. This will also for PLT to ensure inventory of your requested materials and post the workshop on an on-line calendar for other interested parties.
Use this checklist as a suggested outline to ensure that your workshop plans are moving forward in a timely fashion.
promoting and advertising your local workshop is essential to providing a successful and well-attended event. This document provides some ideas that may be handy in marketing your event to the target audience. Also, feel free to be creative! PLT workshops can be done jointly with other “projects” or have a unique theme/title that fits your needs.
Additional Resources to Use in Workshops
Use this form as a sign in sheet for workshop participants and send it, or a similar list, along with your other post-workshop materials to the PLT-Ohio office.
Use this form to gain permission from workshop participants to use photos and/or videos in PLT or AFF publications.
These documents provide a simple overview of PLT’s GreenSchools service-learning program. This is a good document to pass out to workshop participants (or to anyone) to get the word out about the program and encourage others to explore and use PLT’s GreenSchools On-line Investigations for:
1. Energy Use
2. Waste & Recycling
3. Water Consumption
4. School Site
5. Environmental Quality
This one page hand out provides a good overview of the GreenWorks! grant program. Two grant cycles per year- deadlines are in September and February for student-driven community action projects.
This file contains several PLT-Ohio logos. These work great on workshop flyers, agenda, certificates, etc.
Use the timeline below to give participants a brief overview of PLT-Ohio’s many accomplishments over the years.
PLT PowerPoints (.ppt)
Below you will find several PowerPoints that can be used in a PLT workshop. Use as is or edit as needed.
Hike Through the Guides
Below you will find “Hike Through the Guides”. These documents can be used to get workshop participants familiar with the guide.
**Please send (electronically is fine) any documents and PowerPoints you develop for workshops/presentations
Activity/Theme Resources
Below you will find additional general resources to enhance/supplement activities in the PLT guides:
*Please see Additional Resources link (under construction) for more specific resources to the PLT activities
**Select educational posters are also available from PLT-Ohio. For a listing of available posters and/or to request posters, please contact plt@dnr.state.oh.us
After the Workshop
After your workshop is over, please fill out this form and send it to the PLT-Ohio office along with the participant surveys (link below) and the participant roster.
Copies of these should be sent along with PLT materials required for the workshop. However, if you need or would like additional copies they are available here. All workshop participants must fill a survey out at the end of a workshop.
This form can be used to log the amount of time, gas, and mileage that you donated to PLT while holding a workshop, along with any reimbursement expenses needed.
Certificates
These can be used to distribute to workshop participants after they’ve completed the workshop.
Dear PLT Volunteer Facilitator,
Thank you for your commitment to use, lead, and share the PLT environmental education program with others. You are the keys to PLT impacting children’s education statewide. Should you need assistance, please contact the PLT-Ohio Coordinator office within the Ohio Division of Forestry main office.
Sue Wintering
PLT-Ohio State Coordinator |