GUW Facilitator Form

2020 Growing Up WILD™ EEAI Facilitator Application

Growing Up WILD™ facilitator training provides best practices for effective facilitation when working with adult learners, logistics of planning and implementing successful workshops and training events, and hands-on exploration of GUW activities. All participants are required to complete this facilitator application and informal interview prior to registering for training.

The training will be held before the 2020 EEAI Annual Conference at Touch of Nature Environmental Center in Makanda, IL.
Thursday, April 2
9:00am-12:00pm
Fee: $60 per person (includes GUW facilitator certification, guidebook, snacks and activity resources)

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Please briefly answer the following:

Have you ever participated in a GUW Facilitator Workshop? *

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(Were/Are) you (previously/currently) trained as a facilitator for any of the following: *

Flying WILD Project Learning Tree WILD WET

If you are not a previous GUW Facilitator, have you participated in an educator workshop for GUW? *

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Please share the workshop(s) attended, the state it was in and the year(s) attended *

Why do you want to become a GUW Facilitator? *

Will you be able to integrate GUW as part of your work duties or will this be an external activity? *

What audiences do you have contact with that would be potential GUW workshop participants? *

What information or skills do you feel you could most benefit from and hope to learn at this training? (e.g. designing an agenda, audience, preparing a workshop, choosing activities, presenting activities, background knowledge on the Projects, etc.) *

Facilitator Expectations

Yes! I would like to become an Environmental Education Association of Illinois Growing Up WILD™ facilitator. I agree to participate the entire facilitator training, as well as facilitate at least one GUW workshop annually. I understand that being a GUW facilitator is a volunteer position, and I will not be paid by EEAI for facilitating workshops. The projects coordinator, and other EEAI facilitators are available to assist me with aspects of GUW workshops. I understand that I will be expected to obtain/maintain a current membership within the Environmental Education Association of Illinois and dutifully promote the mission of both EEAI and Growing Up WILD™.

I understand the facilitator expectations and by initialing below, agree to the duties outlined above. I accept that the Environmental Education Association of Illinois will train me to conduct educator workshops, provide me with a facilitator’s handbook, and support my work as a facilitator

Initial here to agree to facilitator expectations *

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