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• National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education

  10/20/2010
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  The National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education has produced a series of Guidelines publications that set the standards for high-quality environmental education. Each publication focuses on a different topic: instructional materials, environmental literacy expectations, preparation and professional development of environmental educators, nonformal environmental education programs, and early childhood environmental education programs. This post provides a brief overview of these publications.

• Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence

  10/13/2010
  10/13/2010 8:22:51 PM
  Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence provides a set of recommendations for developing and selecting environmental education instructional materials. These guidelines aim to help developers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional materials produce high quality products, and to provide educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array of available environmental education materials. Read or download the Materials Guidelines from this post.

• Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence

  10/19/2010
  10/19/2010 12:00:00 AM
  The newest addition to the continuing guidelines series, "Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs,"contains a set of recommendations for developing and administering high-quality environmental education programs for young children from birth to age eight, with a focus on ages three to six. Read or download the entire publication from this post.

• Guidelines for the Preparation & Professional Development of Environmental Educators

  10/20/2010
  10/20/2010 2:44:14 PM
  Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators offers recommendations about the basic knowledge and abilities educators need to provide high-quality environmental education. This set of guidelines has been used in the development of NCATE teacher education standards, environmental educator certification programs, and state Environmental Literacy Plans. Read or download the guidelines from this post.

• Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence

  10/25/2010
  10/25/2010 2:23:02 PM
  Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence offers a set of recommendations for the design and implementation of comprehensive nonformal environmental education programs. The Nonformal Guidelines outlines six key characteristics of quality EE program design and implementation. Download the publication frin this post.

• Adopt the Guidelines

  10/18/2010
  10/18/2010 4:54:53 PM
  How can your organization promote quality environmental education? The answer is, Adopt the Guidelines! NAAEE and the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education are encouraging stakeholder groups to Adopt the Guidelines and apply them to their work. By adopting the Guidelines, your organization will help to develop awareness of the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education, improve the quality of environmental education practice, and build credibility for the field.

• Download Your Copy of the Guidelines

  10/25/2011
  10/25/2011 5:46:28 PM
  Each of the Guidelines is posted here as a PDF and available for free downloading:
  Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence
  Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12)
  Guidelines for the Preparation and Professional Development of Environmental Educators
  Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence
  Early Childhood Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence

• Are you looking for resources that will help you design and implement effective environmental education programs?

  10/13/2010
  10/13/2010 12:00:00 AM
  The National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education, initiated by NAAEE in 1993, has developed a series of Guidelines that set the standards for high-quality environmental education. Each of these publications was developed by a diverse team of professionals, and each has gone through a substantive review by thousands of professionals prior to its publication.

• Excellence in Environmental Education: Guidelines for Learning (K-12)

  10/18/2010
  10/18/2010 5:16:42 PM
  Excellence in Environmental Education Guidelines for Learning (K-12) provides students, parents, educators, home schoolers, policy makers, and the public a set of common, voluntary guidelines for environmental literacy achievement. The guidelines support state and local environmental education efforts by setting learner expectations for environmental literacy in 4th, 8th, and 12th grades. Use these guidelines to support your state Environmental Literacy Plan efforts. Read or download from this post.