In order to provide comprehensive training materials for environmental education professionals certificate, Environmental Quality Protection Foundation (EQPF) was assigned by Environmental Professionals Training Institute, Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) to develop training materials on “Climate Change”. EQPF invited 29 experts from various fields to co-author “Climate Change” training materials, including 60 hours of professional subjects—syllabus, textbook, handouts and achievement tests, and 30 hours of practical training courses.
According to the contract, EQPF submitted the working proposal, the midterm report and the final report, and collected the review committee’s suggestions. In addition, EQPF also held two expert meetings to review the outputs of the materials. In addition, EQPF also held several meetings with EPA to modify the contents and formats of materials.
Furthermore, EQPF held a “Climate Change Training Workshop” after completing the 2nd edition of the “Climate Change” training materials. The workshop was opened for the public. The purpose was to get the feedbacks from the students so that we could improve the training materials’ qualities. EQPF received positive feedbacks, in particular, students pointed out the materials could be implemented quite easily. Based on their suggestions, EQPF made some adjustments on practical training courses, including adding an additional chapter on general introduction and the teaching guides.
There are 20 chapters for the teaching materials with three main themes -- Science of Climate Change, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, and Climate Change Mitigation. In addition, we also have an overview part, for those who using the training materials can have an integrated viewpoint of climate Change issues.
Following the same logistics, EQPF designed 9 courses for the practical trainings, including scientific knowledge, engineering methods, and social impacts, etc. We hope to reflect the diversity of climate change training materials.
We firmly believe these training materials can improve the quality of current training courses on environmental education professionals. We hope more people can be benefited from this training material.
