The Development and Implementation of an Environmental Education Liaison-Communication Plan and Program for Teachers of Grades K-5 at Ninety-Fifth Street School Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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1995-07Author
Zimney-Maas, Michelle M.
Publisher
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, College of Natural Resources
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An Environmental Education Liaison Communication Plan and
Program (EELCPP) was developed in hopes of influencing the
instructional practices of teachers of grades K-5 at Ninety-Fifth
Street School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin regarding environmental
education (EE). Prior research revealed that educators face many
obstacles when trying to implement EE, the most common obstacle
being a lack of training. The EELCPP was designed to assess those
obstacles and work around them in order to produce a change in
instruction. A survey administered to the Ninety-Fifth Street
School K-5 teachers in the fall of 1994, assessed the extent to
which EE was occurring and the methods being used. The survey
also determined what manner of dissemination of information from
the Wisconsin School System Environmental Education Network those
instructors would find most beneficial. Finally, the survey
determined what form of help those teachers needed and wanted in
order to meet DPI mandates concerning EE. Based on the results
of the survey the EELCPP was written by the EE committee. The
plan's focus was to provide an inservice at which the K-5
teachers of Ninety-Fifth Street School could learn methods for
infusing EE into their curriculum. This inservice occurred in the
spring of 1995. A final survey in June of 1995 assessed whether
the efforts made during the 1994-1995 school year to motivate the
teachers about EE influenced their instructional practices.
Results of the survey indicated that all efforts made had an
influence, particularly the inservice provided.