Conference Announcement and Call for Proposals
"Educational Tools for Environmental Stewardship: Moving from Awareness
to Action"
Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education Association
9-11 March 2006
Anchorage, Alaska
Proposal Submission Deadline: Friday, 16 December 2005
For further information, please go to:
http://www.anroe.org
or contact:
Kristen Romanoff
Phone: 907-465-4292
The Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education Association (ANROE)
invites you to submit a proposal for a workshop/session at the upcoming
statewide environmental education conference, "Educational Tools for
Environmental Stewardship: Moving from Awareness to Action," to be held
in Anchorage, Alaska on 9-11 March 2006.
There will be four conference strands:
- Environmental science for classroom teachers
- Sustaining environmental education
- Traditional and community knowledge
- Natural history interpretation and field techniques
Proposals are requested for sessions and presentations. The final
deadline for receipt of proposals is Friday, 16 December 2005, and
potential presenters will be notified by Monday, 2 January 2006 as to
whether or not their proposal has been accepted. A proposal form is
available online at http://www.anroe.org and may be sent to:
Stephanie Hoag
119 Seward #12
Juneau, AK 99801
E-mail: hoags [at] gci.net
It is expected that this event will be as well received as the first
statewide conference entitled, "Discovering and Defining Environmental
Education in Alaska," which was held in October 2002 in Anchorage. At
the first conference, over 200 educators from around the state attended
the three day event, with over 30 individual workshops, and several
plenary sessions with statewide and national keynote speakers. The
conference concluded with a large group visioning session which led to
the development of a statewide assessment and planning document for
environmental education in Alaska called the "EE Status Report."
This conference will follow a similar model with hands-on workshops,
educational field sessions, and keynote speakers. It will focus on
topics such as Alaska specific environmental science and natural
history, best teaching practices both in the classroom and in the field,
standards/assessment and student-based conservation projects such as
volunteer water quality monitoring, developing community recycling
programs, watershed mapping, habitat restoration projects, and learning
about public and civic opportunities in the natural resource field.