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Guidelines for Environmental Educators in Colorado
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Guidelines for who?
Anyone who provides, supervises, or manages environmental education. Are you an environmental educator? Are you involved in environmental education? Does your organization provide EE? These guidelines are for you ~ do they reflect the skill set you need? Help us answer the question - what makes an environmental educator?
Why do we need these Guidelines?
The ultimate goal of this project is to improve the quality of EE delivery by creating Colorado-specific competencies for environmental educators. The Colorado EE community started the journey to excellence in May 2002, when a committee of the Advisory Council began developing the Resource Review System, which focuses on the quality of EE programs and materials. Although resource quality was seen as a necessary first step, throughout this process the EE community felt it was imperative to also address the quality of how EE programs are delivered and performed. The need to develop guidelines that focus on the environmental educator was identified. The result is this draft document, intended to help environmental educators define and understand the skill set necessary for providing high quality EE in Colorado.
Background
A committee of the Colorado Environmental Education Advisory Council was tasked with creating state-specific guidelines which define competency for environmental education (EE) practitioners. This diverse group of dedicated individuals represent the interests of many sections of the EE community including state agencies, non-profit organizations, nature centers, schools, higher education, and interpretation. This committee began meeting in January 2005 to create these guidelines.
Members of the Research and Assessment Committee:
Eric Chandler, Montezuma-Cortez High School
Julie Ethington, Colorado State Parks
Lisa Evans, Colorado Division of Wildlife
Francesca Giongo, South Suburban Parks & Recreation
Matt Herbert, Denver Zoo - W.I.N.-W.I.N.
Karin Hostetter, Chairperson, Interpret This
Richard Jurin, University of Northern Colorado
Tabbi Kinion, Lookout Mountain Nature Center
Curry Rosato, City of Boulder
Wren Siegel, The Logan School for Creative Learning
and CAEE Staff Ali Goulstone Sweeney and Amanda Peterson
To contact CAEE with questions or comments, call 303-273-9527 or email.
Additional Resources
These documents were used to guide the process of creating competencies for environmental educators in Colorado:
- North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE):
- National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE):
- EE Program Standards (Review Draft - November, 2004) (PDF, 39 KB)
- Other State Guidelines and Certification Programs