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K-12 Teachers Environmental Education
Needs Assessment
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What Teachers Are
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Type of Training Desired ]
[ Level of Need for EE Services and
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Need for EE Training ]
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Level of Need for
EE Training Table V shows the percentages of
teachers who rated the level of need they had for EE training.
While the greatest percentage of teachers reported training in
regard to the availability and use of curriculum to be a high level
need, it is evident that teachers would benefit from training in
each of the areas listed below. Although training about what
EE is was rated as a high level need by the percentage of teachers,
a combined 44% of teachers did rate it as a high or moderate level
need.
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TABLE V: Level of Need for EE Training
| |
High Need |
Moderate |
Low Need |
|
Availability and Use
of Curriculum |
64% |
18% |
18% |
|
Technology |
59% |
24% |
17% |
|
Development and Use
of Outdoor Sites |
58% |
20% |
20% |
|
Program of Studies
Alignment |
58% |
13% |
30% |
|
Teaching Strategies |
53% |
26% |
21% |
|
Funding Sources and
Grant Writing |
50% |
33% |
18% |
|
Use of Local
Non-formal EE Sites |
50% |
29% |
21% |
|
Integration of EE |
50% |
28% |
23% |
|
Teaching about
Environmental Issues |
46% |
31% |
23% |
|
Content Knowledge |
28% |
36% |
36% |
|
What is EE? |
13% |
31% |
56% |
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Teachers also ranked
and rated their three priority training needs. As shown in
Table VI, the greatest percentage of teachers ranked the development
and use of outdoor learning sites as their number one training need,
followed by the KY Program of Studies alignment as the second
highest need, and availability and use of curriculum as the third
highest need.
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TABLE VI: Rank Order of Highest 3 EE Training Needs
| |
Overall Points |
First |
Second |
Third |
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Development and Use of
Outdoor Sites |
31% |
18% |
11% |
5% |
|
Program of Studies
Alignment |
30% |
18% |
11% |
3% |
|
Availability and Use of
Curriculum |
26% |
5% |
16% |
21% |
|
Funding Sources and Grant
Writing |
24% |
13% |
5% |
8% |
|
Content Knowledge |
17% |
11% |
3% |
8% |
|
Technology |
16% |
8% |
5% |
8% |
|
Use of Local EE Sites |
15% |
3% |
13% |
5% |
|
Integration of EE |
13% |
0% |
16% |
3% |
|
Teaching about
Environmental Issues |
9% |
3% |
3% |
11% |
|
What is EE? |
3% |
3% |
0% |
0% |
|
Teaching Strategies |
2% |
0% |
0% |
5% |
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