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Goal II: Professional Development

by kwadmin — last modified 04-30-2007 15:53
Environmental Education Master Plan Goal 1: Coordination Provide and participate in opportunities to develop and enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of all EE providers. Commit to the conscious, pro-active pursuit of quality as EE providers in formal and non-formal settings.
  1. Provide and participate in professional development and training opportunities for the EE community.
    1. Periodically assess professional development needs of the EE community.Provide professional development, mentoring, and training opportunities for the EE community.
    2. Be actively involved in local, state, or national EE professional associations.
    3. Explore feasibility of periodically offering the Teaching OUTSIDE the Box conference in different regional locations (i.e., southern, western, etc).
    4. Explore alternatives to provide more professional development opportunities aimed at classroom teachers at more "teacher friendly" times, e.g. after school, weekends. Reach out to pre-service education students and professors.
    5. Increase opportunities for "professional exchange" and/or joint collaborative efforts (e.g., cooperative grants) between classroom teachers and non-formal EE providers.
  2. Improve communication of EE-related research findings, including EE evaluation techniques.
    1. Find, update, and distribute via electronic communications an EE literature review and list sources of EE research.
    2. Communicate about research findings and the suggested applications to EE community.
    3. Identify and publicize (e.g., InfoLink articles) case studies in which providers successfully use current research findings.
    4. Conduct new research to demonstrate the value of EE.
  3. Explore the potential for an EE certification process.
    1. Develop Colorado EE provider guidelines or competencies.
    2. Commit to using Guidelines for Environmental Educators in Colorado.
    3. Assess the need for a formal EE provider certification process to include an assessment of the relationship/coordination potential and downsides to existing, related certification efforts (e.g., NAI and ANCA).
  4. Increase provider awareness, understanding, and use of evaluation techniques in order to improve programming and/or substantiate effectiveness.
    1. Train teachers and EE providers in NAAEE's National Project for Excellence in EE.
    2. Submit programs to the EE Resource Review System and become a reviewer for the system.
    3. Survey EE providers to identify how many, which, and to what extent programs are evaluated.
    4. Provide training for EE providers about using diverse approaches for evaluating success
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