Sustainability Starts with Teachers

Change Project Orientation
5 Sessions
Developing an ESD Change Project
Some ESD Change Project Examples
Change Project Pathway to Bring About ESD Innovation
Completing the Parts of the ESD Change Project
Change Project Guidelines and Review
Learning Action 1: ESD Policy, Context and Competences Review
5 Sessions
Learning Action 1: A Case Story to Introduce ESD
Develop a common understanding of ‘Sustainable Development’ and ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ (ESD).
Review of the Vision and Mission statement of your institution and Sustainable Development Goal Number 4
Review of other relevant documents guiding the work of educators in your TE/TVET Institution
Assignment: Change Project Part 1 – Review of context, policy and institutional vision and mission
Learning Action 2: Sustainable Development Goals and Critical Issues
5 Sessions
Learning Action 2: A Case Story
Environment and Sustainability Knowledge: integrating society-economy-environment
The Sustainable Development Goals and sustainability challenges in Africa
Responses to Sustainability Issues and Concerns
Assignment: Change Project Part 2 – Exploring site “matters of concern”
Learning Action 3: Transformative Learning and Learning Environments
5 Sessions
Learning Action 3: A Case Story
Aspects to consider in ESD teaching and learning processes
Transformative pedagogies for ESD teaching
Transformative social learning and transforming learning environments
Assignment: Change Project Part 3 – Transformative learning and transforming learning environments
Learning Action 4: Design and Try out Assessment of Significant Learning in ESD
5 Sessions
Learning Action 4: A Case Story
Exploring your experience of assessment in the context of ESD assessment innovations
Additional guidance for designing assessments in ESD
Examples of alternative assessments
Assignment: Change Project Part 4 – Assessment of significant learning
Learning Action 5: Monitoring, Evaluation and Scaling for Impact
5 Sessions
Learning Action 5: A Case Story
Monitoring your change project in a community of practice
Evaluating the Change Project for value creation
Scaling the Change Project for Impact
Assignment: Change Project Part 5 – Monitoring and evaluating the ESD Change Project, and scaling for impact
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Some ESD Change Project Examples

Sustainability Starts with Teachers Change Project Orientation Some ESD Change Project Examples

In this section we share some examples of ESD Change Projects (see examples below and on the programme website). These include:

  • curriculum innovation ESD Change Projects for ECD, Secondary and Primary education and TVET,
  • action learning ESD Change Projects drawing on heritage knowledge and experience,
  • place-based community engagement ESD Change Projects, and
  • teaching practice ESD Change Projects.

Once you have worked through the case studies answer the following questions:

  • Which type of Change Project will you be working on?

  • Why are you thinking about working on this type of a Change Project?

  • Who are you thinking of working with to develop this Change Project?

This video briefly presents the Sustainability Starts with Teachers Change Project being developed in the Mary Mount Teachers College in Zimbabwe

This video briefly presents the Sustainability Starts with Teachers Change Project being developed at the University of Namibia in Namibia.

This video briefly presents the Sustainability Starts with Teachers Change Project being developed in the Serowe College of Education in Botswana

This video reports on the Zimbabwe Sustainability Starts with Teachers Change Project Peer Review Meeting hosted in Harare in 2019

Watch the YouTube videos above and search the internet for some articles on ESD Change Projects. Make a note of these articles and share your thoughts on these case studies in your next group discussion. Which ones did you enjoy the most? And how have they influenced your thinking about your ESD Change Project?

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