Goals & Outcomes

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Goal 1: Use natural resource-related issues to engage students in learning how to learn.

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  Students will:

• Apply goal setting and problem-solving skills.

• Investigate the complex issues facing natural resources, drawing upon a wide range of community resources both in and out of school.

• Develop, revise, and complete personalized learning plans to achieve the goals of the Maine Forest Collaborative as well as state and national learning standards (CCSS, NGSS, MLR, etc.).

 

 

 

Goal 2: Expose students to a wide range of both existing and emerging natural resource-related careers, as well as other careers that can be made possible by a natural resource education.

 

  Students will

• Regularly visit a wide range of natural resource industries and educational institutions.

• Complete an Extended Learning Opportunity or internship in a natural resource field.

• Develop a post-secondary plan that identifies several attainable careers and college options the student can pursue.

 

 

 

Goal 3:  Develop future citizens and leaders who can speak for themselves, especially graduates who will stay in or return to these rural communities.

 

  Students will

• Apply advocacy skills, including research, argumentation, and presentation skills.

• Apply leadership skills to contemporary issues facing natural resource industries.

• Collaborate with other students, natural resource practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and other community resources to apply available information to forest resource management.

 

 

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Goal 4: Help sustain the local natural resource economy and way of life in response to economic, climatic, regulatory, and technological changes.

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  Students will

• Apply goal setting and problem-solving skills in novel situations in collaboration with other students, natural resource practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and other community resources.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the rules, regulations, and processes of natural resource management.

• Investigate emerging industries, technologies and innovation.

• Articulate their connection to the local forest economy, markets, and ecosystems.

 

 

 

Program goals and objectives are subject to change as the Steering Committee develops a framework specific to the Maine Forest Collaborative