The document outlines 12 steps for planning and implementing an education project: 1. Assess needs and capabilities 2. Establish a project planning team 3. Develop goals and objectives 4. Create a logical model to map out activities, outcomes, outputs, and inputs 5. Select and characterize the target audience

1. PART II PROJECT,
PLANNING AND
IMPLEMENTATION
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2. Planning and Implementing an Education Project
The planning process is careful and its development depends
on how intricate its nature is. Which is why it has to be
broken in at least twelve steps that have to be shaped
according to comply with the requirements of the project.
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3. The project planning and implementation process
Step 1: Assess need and capability
Step 2: Establish the project planning team
Step 3: Develop project goals and objectives
Step 4: Develop a logic model
Step 5: Select and characterize the audience
Step 6: Establish program format and delivery
system
Step 7: Ensure quality instructional staff
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Step 8: Ensure quality institutional materials and
strategies
Step 9: Assemble materials, resource and
facilities
Step 10: Plan for emergencies
Step 11: Promote, market, and diseminate
project
Step 12: Implement project

4. Step 1: Asesss need and capability
The needs assessment highlights the gap between the current and desired social,
economic and environmental conditions. The needs assessment also accounts
the existing project based on an understanding of the issue to be analysed. This
step determines if the project is coherent with the institution (in the case of the
book, the NOAA) mission and priorities.
In this stage of the process, an inventory of the existing resources such as human
financial, physical and material, must be made.
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5. Step 2: Establish the project planning team
To establish the project planning team, stakeholders inside and outside the
institution have to be identified. Then, it is evaluated how the needs assessment
team worked. Moreover, some members of this team might continue working on
step 2. It is important that participants have experience designing instructional
activities. Evaluation has to be integrated throughout all the steps and this will
determine the success by integrating planning, design and implementation
process.
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6. Step 3: Develop project goals and objectives
The needs assessment provided purpose and direction for the project. Planning,
on the other hand, accounts how you are going to accomplish your goals and
objectives. Although project goals are not measurable, they describe the desired
impact of the project in broad terms. Objectives on the other hand, provide
specific end points of measurable outcomes, they describe what specific impact of
the program will be and the extent up to which it occurs.
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7. Step 4. Develop a logical model
When the team members have agreed on the goals and objectives of the project,
the rest can be drafted. This model will serve as a guide for evaluation since it is
a schematic of how the project will be run, linking project to outcomes with outputs
and inputs. The use of a logic model, provides a roadmap for how the project is
expected to work, logical order of activities and how outcomes will be achieved.

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WeekLong-Term Outcomes: Describe the intended ultimate impacts of the project on the issue.
Intermediate Outcomes: Describe expected impacts on the audience’s behavior because of the project.
Short-Term Outcomes: Describe the expected immediate impacts of the project.
Outputs: Describe the activities, events, products, and services that reach people targeted by the
project.
Inputs: List the time, money, human resources, office space, utilities, equipment, supplies, management
and partner support, etc. needed to accomplish the project.

9. Step 5. Select and characterize the audience
Each audience is different.Participants have different motivations for learning depending on whether they
are participating. Each of these factors is important to consider in determining what particular audience(s)
should be targeted by the project.
Who should the program’s audience be?
Most NOAA education and outreach programs are targeted either to schools or to community groups.Yet
there are many other potential audiences for programs.
Some of the issues to be addressed in the audience assessment include:
Knowledge and interests, prior educational experiences, extrinsic and intrinsic motivations, attitudes and
preconceptions, constraints related to attending an education activity and cultural characteristics

10. Step 6. Establish program format and delivery
system
Planning is currently recognized as a process and a social practice. As a process,
it is seen as a dynamic effort evolving around problems and implying decisions
and actions to achieve goals. As a social practice, it implies a negotiation of
interests and the construction of some type of working platform involving different
actors, such as researchers, subject-matter specialists, rural leaders,
representatives of farmers' associations and groups, and so forth. "Negotiation"
emerges as a key word in current views.
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11. Step 7. Ensure quality instructional staff
The efficacy of the project depends on the instructional staff and their abilities. Although the educational materials or activity
guide may give instructors direction, teaching requires skill and conscious effort. Instructors need preparation. At a
minimum, they will require training in how to deliver the specific activities to the specific audience.

12. Step 8. Ensure quality instructional materials and
strategies

13. Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for
Excellence

14. Step 9. Assemble materials, resources, and
facilitiesPlanners must think ahead to the actual implementation
of the project and anticípate a variety of needs.

15. Evaluate your design by answering the following
questions:

16. Evaluate your design by answering the following
questions: