Interested in Continuing Your Professional Development in Environmental Education?
Our Arizona environmental education certification course aligns with NAAEE’s Guidelines for Excellence Preparation & Professional Development preparing participants to create a professional portfolio while gaining knowledge, skills, and experience toward certification.
The competencies for certification are based on the NAAEE’s Guidelines for Excellence in Environmental Education and Arizona’s Framework for Environmental Concepts and Themes (AFECT) and is recognized by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) as a valid certification program.
I have been challenged to research new topics, explore environmental education topics of interest that lay dormant, and build on master’s level coursework and teaching knowledge. Learning and growing in environmental education knowledge has been fulfilling and I am more confident that I can move from being a generalist with a lifelong love of nature to a specialist as I utilize new knowledge of environmental education history, policy, and systems approaches to environmental education.
To paraphrase a popular saying, “the more I learn, the more I want to learn, and the more I realize I need to learn.” I look forward to implementing my growth plan for immediate, short-term, and long-term goals. Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this inaugural program.
Phenomenal, I enjoyed learning about environmental education, the history and values integrated within. My favorite assignment would be the four interviews I had with various environmental educators.
Excellent curriculum with opportunities for individualization yet with necessary guidance and focus to create a sound research-based certificate. I so enjoyed the interactions with my reviewer!
Loved this cohort and the assignments! I have learned a lot about environmental education and will carry this knowledge with me for the rest of my life. Thank you for this opportunity.
This certification course has encouraged me to strengthen my management skills and incorporate new presentations and discussions of environmental issues.
This certification course is self-paced and supported by an expert reviewer, requiring roughly 100 hours to complete in total.
This certification is a year-long, independent, portfolio building process where participants work one-on-one with mentors to become certified. Participants work at their own pace through an online course system (Canvas) to complete assignments that allow the applicant to demonstrate what they know and can do based on the defined competencies.
The competencies for certification are based on the NAAEE’s Guidelines for Excellence in Environmental Education and Arizona’s Framework for Environmental Concepts and Themes (AFECT) and is recognized by the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) as a valid certification program.
Please note that this certification course IS NOT an online facilitated course, with active weekly discussion and engagement with your cohort members, although you can certainly connect with other members in your group within the online platform throughout the year if prompted to do so by your reviewers. Our “Rules of the Road” document provides additional information about the course logistics.
The cost of this certification is $250, and scholarships may be available.
This course fee is non-refundable.
A non-refundable $20 application fee is required to be considered for participation, in addition to the cost of certification.
This application fee is transferrable if you are not selected for the next upcoming cohort or if you need to defer to a future cohort.
We will be taking three new cohorts in 2018.
Tues. Jan. 16, 2018 – Sun. Jan. 13, 2019
APPLICATIONS DUE FRI. DEC. 15, 2017
Tues. May 29, 2018 – Sun. May 26, 2019
APPLICATIONS DUE FRI. APR. 27, 2018
Mon. Aug. 20, 2018 – Sun. Aug. 18, 2019
APPLICATIONS DUE FRI. JUL. 20, 2018
Submission of an application to participate is not a guarantee of a space in the course.
We are currently accepting 15 participants per cohort, limited by available reviewers.
All other applicants will be placed on our waitlist for the next available cohort.
After the application deadline, if selected, you will either receive an email from the course administrator with information about your acceptance, or details about your status on the waitlist. There may be an opportunity to join an in-process cohort depending upon the status of the previously selected cohort participants.
For more information, please contact us at certification@arizonaee.org.
