Are You An Environmental Educator Or An Earth Educator - Take This Short Quiz To Find Out

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Are You An Environmental Educator Or
An Earth Educator
Take This Short Quiz To Find Out

Please respond to these 20 questions. Your answers and score will be shown on the next page.

1.	Do you question who pays for the materials, conferences and organizations you support in this area of education?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
2.	Do you suspect that the idea of infusing environmental messages or perspectives into each subject in school is not really happening on any significant scale?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
3.	Are you wary of school projects that involve students in the issue of the moment without conveying fundamental ecological processes?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
4.	Are you suspicious of educational materials supported by government agencies and private industries?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
5.	Do you focus in your work on the processes and places (natural communities) of life rather than its pieces?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
6.	Do you use complete educational programs that involve the head, heart and hands working together rather than just conducting a couple of environmental activities or going on a field trip each year?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
7.	Are you hooked yourself on the endless marvels and mysteries of the natural world and enjoy sharing your discoveries with others in special ways?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
8.	Do you structure your educational programs in this area so that the activities are sequential and cumulative, with specific environmental outcomes in mind?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
9.	Do your participants examine their own use of energy and materials and pledge to lessen their personal impact in some specific ways?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
10.	Do you hook your learners and pull them in with magical experiences that promise discovery and adventure?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
11.	Do you proceed in an organized way to a definite outcome that the learners can identify beforehand, then recognize their achievement or reward them when they reach it?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
12.	Do you keep an eye on all the small details that make up your activities and programs and strive to improve upon those details whenever possible?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
13.	Do you focus on building good feelings for the earth and its life through lots of rich, firsthand contact in the natural world?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
14.	Are you in love with the natural world yourself and find that almost any natural patch can stir you to the depths of your being?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
15.	Do you emphasize major ecological understandings (including energy flow, cycles, interrelationships and change)?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
16.	Do you get your description of natural processes and places into the concrete through tasks that are both "hands-on" and "minds-on"?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
17.	Do you use dynamic learning techniques that start where your learners are mentally and end with lots of reinforcement for their new understandings?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
18.	Do you avoid the labeling and quizzing approach in favor of the fuller participation that comes with more sharing and doing?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
19.	Do you provide immediate applications of your essential messages in the natural world and later in the human community?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely
20.	Are you working systematically on concrete actions for improving your own relationship with the earth and its life?	Usually	Sometimes	Rarely

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