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EETAP Mission
The Environmental Education and Training Partnership’s (EETAP's) mission is to deliver training and support services to teachers and other education professionals to advance education and environmental literacy in the United States. The current program, called EETAP-3, is fulfilling its mission over the next 5 years (2006 - 2010) by implementing activities in three major program areas:
- Supporting Professional Development: Activities focus on the delivery of EE training for teachers and non-formal educators.
- Advancing Environmental Education: Activities focus on promoting quality materials and programs and institutionalizing and professionalizing the field of EE.
- Reaching Diverse Audiences: Activities focus on helping educators work with culturally diverse audiences and non-formal educators.
A summary of EETAP’s Year 1 and Year 2 activities can be viewed by clicking here:
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Supporting Professional Development
- Strengthening the EE training networks of Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, and Project WET
- Offering university accredited online instruction on the “Fundamentals of EE”, “Applied EE Program Evaluation”, “Leadership Development in Natural Resources: Strategic Planning and Implementation", and “Making EE Relevant to Culturally Diverse Audiences”
- Delivering strategic planning and organizational development training to state EE associations
Advancing Environmental Education
- Providing training on the National Project for Excellence in EE's (NPEEE) guidelines
- Publishing and applying the new EE standards of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) to teacher education programs at colleges and universities nationwide
- Supporting initiatives in several states to develop their own state EE certification programs
- Developing a national program to accredit state EE certification programs
- Correlating supplementary curriculum resources produced by Project Learning Tree, Project WILD, and Project WET to state and national academic standards and the NPEEE guidelines
- Developing an online resource review process for reviewing, evaluating, and posting EE materials on EE-Link
- Promoting Internet access to quality EE resources and information through EE-Link
Reaching Diverse Audiences
- Supporting the delivery of workshops based on “What's Fair Got to Do with It” to help EE programs become more inclusive and relevant to culturally diverse audiences
- Offering EE training to Tribal communities through Project WET's Native Water's program
- Delivering EE to conservation practitioners and non-formal educators by developing a conservation education toolkit and offering train-the-trainer workshops
- Developing a new university accredited online course on “Making EE Relevant to Culturally Diverse Audiences”
