| For any education or outreach initiative,
you need to think about your interaction with people. Do you
need to get information to certain people? Do you need to
talk things over with a group? Do you need to provide training
for a new skill? Or do you really need to change how things
are done?
Selecting a best education practice (BEP) depends on your
overall goals and what you want to accomplish . If you aren't
sure exactly what you want to do, the
BEP Decision Tree may help.
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Accomplish
What?
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Introduction
Decide
on a strategy
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Whatever your purpose, there are strategies and resources to help
you design the most effective initiative.
This section helps you explore opportunities
and limitations of each of these strategies. But before you Plan
your initiative, it's important that you decide what you
want to accomplish:
For a brief introduction
to this topic, see:
| Andrews,
Elaine. 2000. Building Capacity, Educating for Community Action.
U.S. EPA/Cooperative Extension Partnerships - NO. 6 |
4 pp.
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NOTE: Outreach categories are adapted from:
W. Scott and J. Fien, 1999. An evaluation of the contributions
of educational programmes to conservation within the WWW network
: Final Report. Unpublished report to the Worldwide Fund for
Nature, Gland, Switzerland.
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Best
Education 
What are BEPs?