Excellence in Environmental Education--Guidelines for Learning (Pre K?12): Executive Summary & Self-Assessment Tool

Overview & Synopsis

Excellence in Environmental Education--Guidelines for Learning (Pre K?12) (NAAEE, 2004) offers a vision of environmental education and promotes progress toward sustaining a healthy environment and quality of life. The Guidelines provide students, parents, educators, home schoolers, administrators, policy makers, and the public a set of common, voluntary guidelines for environmental education. The Guidelines support state and local environmental education efforts by: Setting expectations for performance and achievement in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades; Suggesting a framework for effective and comprehensive environmental education programs; Demonstrating how environmental education can be used to meet standards set by the traditional disciplines and to give students opportunities to synthesize knowledge and experience across disciplines; Defining the aims of environmental education.