Environmental educators help us to acquire knowledge about environmental issues and develop the skills to protect the environment. They can inspire others to become passionate about the environment and influence changes in behaviour. As an Environmental Educator, you may:

• Prepare teaching materials and curriculum resources on environmental topics.
• Coordinate environmental education programming and environmental resource centres for school and community education groups.
• Develop and deliver educational and publicity programs to increase awareness of parks and ecological reserves.
• Prepare environmental training modules for staff in industry and government.

Where you could work:

• National, provincial and local parks; natural heritage facilities, science centres and museums
• Environmental advocacy organizations.
• Community colleges, agricultural colleges, technical institutes and vocational schools.
• Universities
• As a corporate trainer in industry, training employees in new technologies or techniques.

To be an effective educator, you need excellent communication skills, which the BES program helps to develop. It is also useful to have a general knowledge of environmental issues from a variety of perspectives. Grounding in both the social sciences and sciences is vital, and the variety of courses within the BES program allows for this. Students in the BES program have an opportunity to develop their facilitation skills, which are invaluable to environmental educators.