The Educator’s Toolshed
Even though Frank and Fiona created completely different gardens, they both needed tools and resources to make their efforts a success – trowels, seeds, water, and more! To grow behavior change, educators can similarly draw on a set of tools and resources. Specific strategies include social/ group learning, case studies and stories, goal setting, rewards, and commitment (see image at right).
Grow your own garden…
The strategies, tools, and steps of this garden model for growing behavior change are intended to help you design environmental education programs that achieve your behav- ioral outcome objectives and to develop active environmen- tal stewards. Keep in mind that no one strategy or tool will work with everyone or every time – often programs that
are most successful at changing behavior employ multiple strategies and tools over extended periods of time, and are adapted to their specific location and situation. By combin- ing and applying the concepts described in this article, you will be utilizing research-based methods17
likely to foster changes in environmental behaviors18
and thus, be more .
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