Embedding Sustainability
Adapted from workshop to Staff
We learn purposefully by cultivating curiosity,
being reflective and making real-world connections."
Where does Sustainability fit in our curriculum structure?
"At Beaumaris Secondary College we deepen our learning by transferring and applying knowledge and skills,
to create enriched understandings of the world."
Thinking Sustainably and Educating for Sustainability require a commitment to go beyond the surface levels and explore the systems
and interconnections within and between those systems.
It is the Why?, What? and How? for our vision statements that describe what quality education is.
Peter Morgan - Learning Specialist- Sustainability
Learning intentions and Success Criteria
Pre Workshop Form-
Learning Intentions
Success Criteria
I am……………….
Educator Impact statement will evolve as we attune our purpose in the classroom with our students.
It is the heart of why we do what we do.
It also keeps us focused on the content, skills and mindsets we strive for our students to walk away with.
My name is ___________________
I am a _______(adjective)__________ educator
designing transformational learning experiences for ________(who?)_______
so that ___________(impact)_________________
Sometimes it is easier to name what it doesn't look like first.
Here's an activity for young people of all ages
A Definition of Sustainability
Rings of Sustainability
PMI
Defining a concept- First steps
Developing a common language around a concept and a shared vision is an
important first step.
What happens when we don’t?
How do we embed this currently into our curriculum?
How could we improve?
Don’t forget the Why?
Students develop the
● Knowledge
● Skills
● Values
● World views
That are necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living.
Provides students with the opportunity to participate creatively and to see themselves as having the capacity to act in ways
that will help to establish more sustainable ways of living.
If we agree with the definition
Then we need to become
Systems Thinkers
and teach our students to do the same.
Thinking in Systems
To think and act Sustainably is to understand
and work in systems and develop the habits of
mind to consider an issue fully and resist the
urge to come to a quick conclusion.
The iceberg model is a systems thinking tool designed to help an individual or
group discover the patterns of behaviour, supporting structures, and mental
models that underlie a particular event.
The iceberg is a fantastic tool for guiding us to ask the right questions to any issue,
problem and situation that we are addressing. The iceberg structure guides us in
our analysis of events and where and how to make change – or more directly, to
identify and act on the system’s “leverage points.”
References: Home - Waters Center for Systems Thinking (waterscenterst.org)
Behaviour over Time
System Structures
Mental Models- Start with the Why?
An internal representation of external
reality
Mental models can help shape behaviour and set an approach to
solving problems (similar to a personal algorithm) and doing tasks.
Know your and others Mental Models so you can design better
actions.
Ladder of inference
Slowing down the journey from Facts→ Actions
To test your assumptions and mental models to
design better actions
