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Education Foundation
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03-05
Biennial ReportDraft
EE 2010 Strategic Plan
Contact us at:
110 College of Natural
Resources,
UW-Stevens Point,
Stevens Point WI
54481
phone: (715) 346-3805
fax: (715
346-3025
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EE Web Pages
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Environmental Education for Kids
Learning Experiences and Activities in Forestry
Goals
and Objectives
The
following goals and associated objectives have been identified by
stakeholders as focus areas for WEEB in order to promote environmental
education in all segments of society. Some of these goals and objectives
continue or emphasize strategies that are already working, while others
suggest new efforts that, if pursued, will further help Wisconsin grow the
quality and quantity of its EE agendas.
The WEEB will concern itself with initiating specific strategies
through its grants program or through policy actions in order to pursue
the following goals and objectives over the next five years.
Goal I. Support and enhance cooperation and communication between EE providers.
Ration Rationale: For environmental education to be efficient and effective there must be communications, coordination, and support between EE providers and those that would support EE development.
Rationale:
The need for environmental education is justified,
as part of public education, by its contribution to helping society
maintain the highest quality of life for individuals.
EE holds that
people must learn to understand that human activities can impact
maintenance of the planet’s ecological life support systems (i.e.,
water/air quality, forest and biodiversity, energy flow, matter cycling).
The term used to reflect this long term maintenance of
environmental quality is “sustainability.”
The term used to indicate an individual’s knowledge of and value
for sustainability is “environmental literacy.”
Goal
III.
Increase
base funding and establish secure long-term funding for EE in Wisconsin.
Rationale:
The state legislation creating the WEEB also directs it to seek out
and obtain funds to support the development of environmental education
programs in Wisconsin.
Goal
IV.
Rationale:
Environmental education in our schools provides the
foundation for developing lifelong learners that are informed and involved
citizens who will help ensure an ecologically and economically sustainable
environment. Our educational
institutions and state agencies must provide the necessary support to
ensure schools are meeting the environmental education needs of all
learners.
Goal V. Support
and enhance the implementation of environmental literacy in our
institutions of higher education. (i.e.,
UW-System, WI Technical Colleges, private colleges and all pre-service
teacher education programs.)
Rationale: Graduates of higher education programs regularly take leadership positions that effect the establishment of our social systems. The degree to which they are environmentally literate will determine in large part the degree to which society moves toward the concept of sustainability.
Goal
VI. Support
and enhance the expansion of EE stakeholders so as to gain a greater
commitment to EE from a broader variety of audiences.
Rationale: Environmental
Education is a lifelong learning process.
Programs should address the needs of citizens of all ages, from all
walks of life. The more
environmentally literate Wisconsin citizens are, the better equipped they
are to participate in public decisions affecting our working, living and
recreational environments.
Goal
VII. Develop
a research and evaluation agenda for Wisconsin Environmental Education.
Rationale: Environmental
education practices and programs will be more efficient and effective if
grounded in sound findings from both educational and scientific research
and evaluation.
Wisconsin Association of Environmental Educators
Wisconsin Center for
Environmental Education
Wisconsin Technical College System
University of Wisconsin System
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation
State of Wisconsin Government