Guidelines for Excellence Workshop: Professional Development for Non-formal Environmental Educators

Opportunity

Guidelines for Excellence Workshop: Professional Development for Non-formal Environmental Educators

What? Participants in this one-day workshop will investigate and learn how to use the North American Association for Environmental Education publication: Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence. These Guidelines offer a set of recommendations for developing and administering high quality environmental education programs.
What you will receive? Participants will receive a full day of training on the guidelines, lunch and a copy of the Nonformal Environmental Education Programs: Guidelines for Excellence publication.
Workshop Objectives:
• To identify key characteristics of high-quality environmental education
instructional materials;
• To describe age appropriate benchmarks for environmental literacy; and
• To assess your own level of preparation and need for professional development in environmental education
Who should attend? Environmental educators, administrators, or program developers who are concerned about the quality of environmental education programs
When: Friday, October 25th, 2019; 9:00am – 4:00pm
Where: Lincoln Memorial Garden and Nature Center
2301 E Lake Shore Dr, Springfield, IL 62712
Cost: FREE
Registration: Visit WWW.EEAI.NET;
participants must register by October 11 to reserve a spot
For more information: Email EEAI Executive Director, Abbie Enlund –
executivedirectoreeai@gmail.com