Your Opportunity for Input! Professional Development for Environmental Education: Guidelines for Excellence (Draft Review Available Until Jan 20, 2025)

NAAEE

NAAEE is in the process of updating and revising one of the Guidelines for Excellence publications—Professional Development of Environmental Educators: Guidelines for Excellence. This set of guidelines offers a set of recommendations about the basic knowledge and abilities educators need to provide high quality environmental education. Draft review is available until January 20, 2025.

NAAEE's Accreditation: Distinguished College and University Programs provides a means for recognizing institutions of higher education that provide programs that prepare high quality environmental education professionals. Applications for accreditation are based on a Self-Study Audit describing the program and how it addresses each of the six themes included in the Professional Development of Environmental Educators: Guidelines for Excellence in terms of program design and participant assessment.

Because accreditation examines both how the program design is aligned to the Guidelines Themes and how program participants are assessed against those same Guidelines Themes, you will need to provide assessment data for at least two years. New programs should wait to submit their Self-Study until they have at least two years of assessment data. If more than one program is being submitted for accreditation, a separate application should be made for each program.