Course Delivery | Local
Training Team | Implementation Schedule
Evaluation | Roles and Responsibilities
| Accountability | Budget
The following guidelines will help you implement the course at your site.
Download the official course Implementation
Strategy (Adobe PDF document) for more detailed information. For a
brief overview of implementation information, click on Fast
Facts.
Course Delivery
All National Parks Staff and seasonal staff will participate in
the full 12 hour course.
National Historic Sites and Canal staff with no significant land
base, Service Centre staff and National Office staff will
participate in the three hour summary version. If interested, they can
complete the 12 hour course.
Between 12 and 24 participants from a variety of sections should
attend each session of the course. This manageable groups size will ensure
that the course is interesting and relevant for all participants.
Where possible, deliver the course over two consecutive days.
Local Training Team
 You
will deliver the program at the field level as part of a Local Training
Team. The average team size will be 3 trainers.
Two trainers need to deliver the course at one time. You can deliver
the modules as team or each deliver specific modules. If your Field Unit
is large, other teams can help you deliver the course.
Implementation Schedule
The program is to be implemented in two phases and is due for completion
in
September 2002:
Phase 1 March - October 31, 2001
Phase 2 November 1 - June 30, 2002
Evaluation March,2001- September, 2002
Evaluation
The evaluation process will compile data on the following:
- Implementation schedule;
- Participant satisfaction with the course;
- Level of understanding of the concept of ecological integrity before
and after the course; and
- Changes in attitude and behaviour towards ecological integrity in
Parks Canada.
Roles and Responsibilities
Your responsibilities as part of your Local Training Team include:
- Delivering the course or the summary version at the field level;
- Collecting the evaluation forms for the program; and
- Communicating with the national project manager regarding the outcomes
of the course.
Your managers will:
-
 Allocate
time for you to deliver the program, and the time for participant to
attend the program;
- Become engaged in the messages being delivered by the trainers;
- Encourage professional EI staff to serve as experts and catalysts
during courses; and
- Facilitate the implementation of action plan developed during module
4.
Accountability
As part of the Local Training Team, you need to set up a course delivery
schedule that meets the needs of your site. Work closely with your management
team to develop a local implementation strategy that will allow all staff
to attend the course.
Your Field Unit Superintendent will be accountable for the complete implementation
of the program.
The Ecological Integrity Strategic Direction Committee (EISDC) will maintain
its overseeing role for the program to ensure national consistency in
course delivery and to reduce potential barriers.
Ecological Integrity Branch of the National Parks Directorate will continue
to manage the program delivery.
Budget
- Field Units are responsible for the salary costs associated with the
delivery of the program.
- Journal vouchers: For training expenses - up to $10 per participant
and
travel.
The next invoicing period is up until the end of March, 2002.
Please save your receipts and submit your journal vouchers in March.
- Send all journal vouchers to Barbara Bowman:
fax: 819-997-3380
email: Barbara Bowman
mail at 25-4-5 25 Eddy St.,
Gatineau, Québec K1A 0M5
- The financial code is: 1240-2250-1500-22001-50689-20004760
and the intra number is 0300.
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