Alaska Project Wild
Facilitator Resources
As a facilitator, you will represent the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in a state-wide effort to educate Alaskans in wildlife conservation education. Your experience, creativity, and energy will strengthen our efforts to maintain natural resources for current and future generations. The Facilitator plans, organizes, and facilitates teacher training workshops in one or more of the following: Project WILD, Project WILD Aquatic, and the Alaska Wildlife Curriculum (AWC). As a facilitator, you set the stage for learning and encourage participants to explore and develop as professionals. The role of the facilitator is to help the participants make their own observations and interpretations, and to assist them in discovering the potential that Project WILD and AWC hold for them as educators.
Why be a Facilitator?
Workshop facilitators are the lifeblood of Project WILD and the Alaska Wildlife Curriculum. Nationwide, facilitators have successfully trained over a million educators to the Project WILD and AWC activity guides. In Alaska, thousands of educators have received training in both WILD and AWC. Without the time and energy facilitators provide to the program, we would not have attained the status these programs hold within environmental education circles.
Once you have joined the ranks of these very important facilitators, you will benefit from other facilitator’s experiences. Through facilitation of workshops, recognition, and networking you will become a role model and recognized leader in environmental education. Additional benefits for becoming a volunteer facilitator include:
- Access to professional development and networking opportunities
- Incentives (fabulous prizes!)
- Fulfillment and satisfaction
For more information about training to becoming a volunteer or contracted facilitator contact:
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Division of Wildlife Conservation
333 Raspberry Road
Anchorage, AK 99518-1599
Or visit the Educators Contacts page.
Information and Forms for Project WILD Facilitators
Section I Introduction
- Mission and Goals of the Program (PDF 309 kB)
- Project WILD Overview (PDF 90 kB)
- Alaska Wildlife Curriculum Overview (PDF 81 kB)
- Facilitator Job Description (PDF 186 kB)
- Volunteer and Contracted Facilitator Program (PDF 286 kB)
Section II Workshops
- Minimum Requirements (PDF 196 kB)
- Facilitator Agreement (PDF 96 kB)
- Planning Checklist (PDF 168 kB)
- Sample Agendas (PDF 466 kB)
- Credit for workshops (PDF 215 kB)
- Project WILD Workshop Logistics (PDF 200 kB)
- A Walk on the WILD side (PDF 100 kB)
Section III Facilitator Forms
- Workshop Proposal Form (PDF 181 kB)
- Facilitator Reporting Forms (PDF 129 kB)
- Travel Authorizations (PDF 52 kB)
- Sample Travel Authorization (PDF 58 kB)
- Invoice Sample (PDF 132 kB)
- Workshop Certificate Sample (Word doc 663 kB)
- Workshop Sign-In Sheet (PDF 115 kB)
- Workshop Evaluation (PDF 76 kB)
Section IV Resources and References
- Teachbacks: What I do, I know (PDF 131 kB)
- In-Servicing the Teachers (PDF 137 kB)
- Basic Learning Principal (PDF 175 kB)
- Training Instructor’s Checklist (PDF 232 kB)
- Assignment Instruction (PDF 66 kB)
- Rural Alaska Project WILD Workshops (PDF 148 kB)
- Eight Training Problems and Solutions (PDF 139 kB)
- Dealing with Disruptive People (PDF 134 kB)
- Training of Trainers (PDF 335 kB)
- Presentation Tips (PDF 138 kB)
- Education Not Advocacy (PDF 152 kB)
- Understanding Bias in Environmental Education (PDF 631 kB)