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N ational P roject for E xcellence in E nvironmental E ducation

Setting a standard for high-quality environmental education in schools and learning settings, covering essential underpinnings, guidelines for learning, educator preparation, and nonformal programs.

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N ational P roject for E xcellence in E nvironmental E ducation

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  1. NationalProject forExcellence in EnvironmentalEducation

  2. Primary Sponsor: U.S. EPA – Office of Environmental Education Other Sponsors: • U.S. Forest Service • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • National Fish and Wildlife Foundation • National Environmental Education Foundation

  3. Setting a standard for high-quality environmental education in schools and other learning settings.

  4. Essential Underpinnings of Environmental Education • Systems • Interdependence • The importance of where one lives • Integration and infusion • Roots in the real world • Lifelong learning

  5. Guidelines for Excellence Publications

  6. Critique & Consensus • Developed Guidelines through a public participatory process • Engaging educators in a deep discussion about quality environmental education practice • Building EE as a profession

  7. Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence • Recommendations for selecting quality EE materials • Tools for evaluating a wide array of materials • Guidance for developing new EE materials

  8. Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12) • Expectations for achievement in 4th, 8th and 12th grades • A framework for EE programs and curricula • Demonstrations on how EE can be used to meet traditional standards • A definition of the aims of environmental literacy

  9. Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators • A set of recommendations about the basic knowledge and abilities educators need to provide high-quality EE • Used to set educator certification standards • Basis for NCATE accreditation standards

  10. Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence • Recommendations for developing & administering high quality nonformal EE programs • A tool that can be used to ensure a firm foundation for new programs or to trigger improvements in existing ones

  11. Recommendations for developing & implementing high quality early childhood EE programs Birth to 8 year olds, focus on ages 3 to 6 Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence

  12. http://eelinked.naaee.net/n/guidelines

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