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How to help professionals to be more effective in water education work

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Wilbur, J. (2004.) Finding 1

Train water education professionals to apply these steps when designing an outreach program:

  • Define driving forces
  • Define goals, and objectives
  • Identify and analyze the target audience
  • Create the message
  • Package the message
  • Distribute the message
  • Evaluate the outreach campaign

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Fackler, R. (2003) Finding 1

Provide teacher training that is hands-on, intense, comprehensive, and includes work in the field. A successful training could:

  • Include an introduction to the watershed topic(s), water quality testing, use of equipment, hands-on instruction, introduction to inquiry-based learning, introduction to and use of field-based science investigations, and related science and career topics.
  • Assure availability of any resources required for the training.
  • Include practice training activities designed to match the situation where teachers will apply the activities.
  • Provide professional development in: student initiatives, action research, interdisciplinary approaches, and help with barriers to program implementation.

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Liukkonen, B. (2004) Finding 1

Build skills among water outreach professionals to ask the right questions about the:

  • Need to demonstrate impacts
  • Availability of staff and funding resources
  • Need to provide repeated education for new decision makers
  • Need to keep the science current

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