Teaching for sustainability
Environmental Education is best delivered through a wide range of teaching and learning activities utilising all of the Key Learning Areas. Students will develop strong environmental knowledge, awareness and capacity for positive environmental change when it is contextualised or taught using real examples, problem solving and with active student participation.
Sustainability action process (SAP)
Learning for sustainability seeks to enable and empower students to make decisions and take actions that contribute to creating a sustainable society and ecosystem. Sustainability action is both a preferred pedagogical approach for teaching sustainability and an essential set of knowledge and skills for students to learn.
When sustainability action is applied as a systematic process to issues and needs, it can be modelled, reapplied to new problems and learned by students with increasing levels of sophistication and complexity. The ultimate learning goal is for students to be able to implement sustainability action with such fluency that they can operate independently of the need for a scaffolded process. The Sustainability action process has five steps:
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Sustainability action process scaffolds for Energy use and efficiency, Water use and efficiency, Waste and materials, Biodiversity, Sustainable transport, Thermal comfort and Kitchen gardens are currently under development (due July 2012)
Applying SAP to Climate Clever Energy Savers Program
This program focuses on achieving savings in schools through student initiated projects. The Sustainability Action Process is embedded in the teaching and learning program. For more information visit Climate Clever Energy Savers. See above poster.
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Sustainable Schools NSW newsletter - Keep up to date with new resources, grants and funding, key dates and school network meetings. This newsletter is published once per term and available from the Sustainable Schools NSW website.
‘The ARIES Collection’ The Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability team at Macquarie University have put together a selection of online videos from around the world to educate, engage, inspire, perplex, enlighten, delight and stimulate debate about all things to do with sustainability education and development.
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