January 14, 2022: Integrating sustainability into your course/s using the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
Description: Guided by virtual exercises and informed by active discussion, our facilitator Lindsay Lyons will walk you through effective strategies for integrating sustainability into your course/s, in any discipline, using the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals as an introduction. Tools, tips and resources will be shared that can be directly adapted to your teaching. Whether you are looking to develop a new course, or modify an existing course to include weeks of sustainability content, one unit, or one assignment, this workshop will give you the opportunity to learn how and why integrating sustainability across the curriculum is valuable and provide you with work time to implement these strategies in your course planning. Workshop participants will:
- Understand the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and their connections to disciplines across the curriculum.
- Propose specific ways of integrating the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals into new or existing courses.
- Share resources for enhancing sustainability in the academic curriculum.
The workshop will also offer an optional 30-minute session with Prof. Sally Warner, who will share the latest in, and answer your questions about, the science of climate change.
When: January 14, 2022, from 9:00am-1:00pm via Zoom
Who: Facilitated by Lindsey Lyons, Assistant Director, Center for Sustainability Education, Dickinson College; leader of Dickinson’s Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum
May 23, 2022: Key competencies in sustainability education
The Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (SCC) and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) have launched a new series of materials for faculty teaching sustainability topics. The first volume in the Practical Approaches to Teaching Sustainability series will be “Key Competencies.”
This SCC workshop will present key research from the forthcoming publication. The workshop will be facilitated by the volume’s editors and will include several of its authors.
As courses and programs in sustainability continue to expand in higher education, instructors are called on to develop and adopt new and innovative approaches to teaching that enable students to learn the knowledge, skills and habits of mind central to sustainability as a study and practice. Over the past decade, pedagogical research has actively sought to articulate the ‘competencies’ students should develop through sustainability education, but, in the classroom, methods vary.
The volume will feature various approaches to teaching sustainability topics in the classroom, field, experiential learning environment, community, or virtual space that illustrate an emerging sustainability pedagogy. Educators may be familiar with related terminology such as "demonstrated capabilities," or “learning outcomes," to identify and assess the learning objectives that are considered a core part of student education in sustainability.
Selected breakout room topics and presenters:
Systems Thinking
Susan Caplow, University of Montevallo
Specifications Grading
Tai Munro, MacEwan University
Cultural Learning
Brittany Y. Davis, Allegheny College
Experiential learning
David Robertson, Monash University (Australia)
Climate Anxiety and Emotions
Krista Hiser
Sustainability Competencies and Capstone Courses
Tina Evans
Main Presenters
Krista Hiser, University of Hawaii Office of Sustainability, Kapiʻolani Community College
Tina Lynn Evans, Colorado Mountain College
Susan Caplow, University of Montevallo
Tai Munro, MacEwan University
Brittany Y. Davis, Allegheny College
David Robertson, Monash University (Australia)
Ira Feldman, Sustainability Curriculum Consortium