Encourage teachers to include the following elements in their environmental education programs:
- Flexible curriculum
- Collaborative learning environments
- Students’ bearing the consequences of the behavior
- Teacher competency in listening and questioning
- Diverse instructional strategies
- Resourcefulness in accessing resources
- Creativity, especially in knowledge of how to do without,
- Facilitation skills
- Ability to make connections
- Understanding of local-to-global connections
- Ability to integrate curricula
- Using personal/student strengths/passions
- Experiential teaching orientation
- Cooperative and inclusive learning
- Nurturing a sense of place
- Consistent can-do vision
- Infectious passion for EE and teaching in general
- Humor in the classroom
- Practice of environmentally responsible behavior
- Risk taking Recharging oneself