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courses. (Note: Subject specialty requirements are not set for secondary 
school teachers by the State Certification Board.) 
Proposal No. 6: 
Although Illinois law requires the teaching of conservation, there is 
no published curriculum guide in this area, although other subject areas 
such as social studies and biology are so provided. A relatively inexpensive 
project, which would further the goal of implanting an ecological emphasis 
in the primary and secondary schools of Illinois, would be the publication 
of a curriculum guide: “Man and His Environment” for grades K-12, which 
would be used by social studies or science teachers and would subsume con- 
servation education. The group responsible for publishing these guides is 
the Curriculum Guide Program under the Superintendent of Public In- 
struction. We should try to effect early publication of such a guide. (Note: 
It looks to me as though personnel to develop such a guide might be paid 
for through funds provided under Title V of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act.) 
Proposal No. 7: 
Short term, in-service training workshops or institutes on human 
ecology and resource management are needed for the majority of Illinois 
teachers who are inadequately prepared to meet the legal requirement of 
teaching conservation in Illinois. These institutes should carry graduate 
credit and cover both content and method. I am not sure whether Federal 
funds would be available under Title I of the Higher Education Act. I 
think state funding of half a dozen model or demonstration institutes 
should be sought, in new legislation, if necessary. The legislation should not 
preclude use of the appropriated state funds as matching funds if Federal 
enabling legislation for the same purpose should be passed. It is important 
that scholarships be provided for these model institutes even if private 
funds must be sought for this purpose. Possibly Federal funds would be 
available for scholarships to these short-term programs under the Educa- 
tion Professions Development Act. 
Proposal No. 8: 
Demonstration projects, maybe six of them, to supply school districts 
with the services of environmental education specialists or consultants are 
very urgently needed. The notion that such a specialist can successfully 
develop and implement environmental education programs in a school 
district and assist the teachers as a resource person must be demonstrated 
before school districts will recognize their need for such a specialist. Funds 
might be available under Title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act, but if they are not, then state legislation ought to be 
initiated to provide salary money for six such specialists in Illinois. Again, 
the legislation should not preclude use of the appropriated state funds as 
matching funds if Federal enabling legislation for the same purpose should 
be passed. 
Proposal No. 9: 
Among the various concerned educators and conservationists whom I 
interviewed, the consensus was that the publishing firms who provide 
school texts and supplementary materials have been dragging their feet 
in the area of environmental education, except perhaps for Singer and Rand 
McNally. A prod from this task force or Lt. Governor Simon might help. 
