Student Residency
The required five-day residency for all IHE M.Ed. and M.A. students is an energizing week that includes practical, hands-on learning, and offers students an opportunity to practice and explore humane education issues, skills, and activities with fellow students and faculty.
Residency takes place at the Institute for Humane Education campus in Surry, Maine, and includes dynamic, interactive training, which helps students hone presentation skills, practice peer-teaching, create community, and connect with IHE staff and other humane educators.
Is Residency limited to only IHE M.Ed. and M.A. students?
As long as we have space available, we welcome Valparaiso students in other programs to participate in our Humane Education Residency as a 3-credit elective. If we have additional space available, we also welcome non-Valparaiso participants. For more information, please contact Director of Education, Mary Pat Champeau, at marypat@humaneeducation.org or call (207) 667-1172.
Residency Location:
Institute for Humane Education
792 Surry Road
Surry, Maine 04684
Residency Schedule:
June 25-29, 2012.
Check in: Monday at 8:30 am. Please arrive on time so that we can begin promptly at 9:00 am.
Daily Program: Monday-Thursday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and Friday, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. There are 1-hour breaks for lunch and short breaks in the morning and afternoon each day.
Travel, Lodging, Food & Other Logistics:
Download (pdf) nformation regarding lodging, food, transportation and other logistics. For assistance with lodging or travel arrangements, email us or call (207) 667-1025.
Presentation Guidelines:
Each participant will be asked to lead a short original activity or lesson. Download (pdf) the presentation guidelines.
For more information, email Mary Pat Champeau, Director of Education at MaryPat@HumaneEducation.org or (207) 667-1172.
See a snapshot of Residency 2009.
See a snapshot of Residency 2008.
See a snapshot of Residency 2007.
What do students think of Residency? Here's a sampling of their views:
“It was an incredible residency. A gift beyond my wildest imagination.” ~ Shawn (2009)
“Phenomenal experience! I am leaving here with several new friends, dozens of humane education lesson ideas/activities, clear visions of what humane role models look like, and lifelong memories of this Institute and its compassionate leaders. Meeting the instructors has been so inspirational and comforting! I also think of myself as relatively confident, but this week developed my confidence as a humane educator even more!”
~ Deb (2009)
“Residency was valuable professionally, emotionally, and spiritually. It exceeded my expectations and more than matched my hopes! It was informative, practical, challenging, magical, full, and fun! You all provided wonderful models of humane education in action and alive! THANK YOU for the gift of the week.”
~ Kurt (2009)
"It went far beyond my expectations or imagination. It was such an AMAZING and AWESOME experience."
~ Hope (2008)
“Residency training exceeded my expectations by far! The presentations turned out to be such an extraordinary adventure! I learned so much from my classmates. I’ll always look back at this week and the wonderful people I’ve met to draw life lessons and inspiration.”
~ Sophia (2008)
“Much more than I could have hoped for. I keep being amazed by the creativity, optimism, encouragement, challenge, mentorship, love, and different prisms that this team presents to all of us. THANK YOU! I’m especially grateful for how much you let us teach each other. You were such good models of teachers as learners and learners as teachers.”
~ Lynne (2008)
“I have learned and grown so very much and am so grateful for all of your leadership, diversity and creation of a safe, loving space. It is mind-blowing to look back at what I learned.”
~ Becky (2008)
"I cannot think of a single way this could be improved."
~ Garth (2007)
"Beyond my hopes. I knew it would be super – but it exceeded my expectations."
~ Phoebe (2007)
"Residency actually exceeded my expectations. I was focused on what I may gain academically from the week and highly underestimated (ironically) the humanity of the shared experience. Lovely, like-minded people coming together with graceful and gentle modeling from the faculty and staff."
~ Andrea (2007)
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