Teaching and learning for a sustainable future A multimedia teacher education programme © UNESCO, 2002. All Rights Reserved. Prepared for UNESCO by Griffith University, Australia. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is one of several programmes initiated by UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future in its function as task manager for Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 and as a contribution to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2001. A multimedia teacher education programme that… Promotes a vision of education that empowers teachers and students to live, work and learn for a sustainable future. Supports educational reform by addressing the challenges of planning for whole-school change, updating curriculum content to focus on issues and values of sustainable development, and strategies for teaching in an interdisciplinary way. Provides guidelines and professional skills for using learner- centred teaching strategies, including: enquiry learning, learning outside the classroom, teaching controversial issues, promoting values and citizenship education, respecting and integrating indigenous knowledge, and developing outcomes-based assessment. Develops teachers’ IT and multimedia skills. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future has been developed by UNESCO as a demonstration project to illustrate: • Ways of promoting the quality of education through teacher education and a focus on teaching and learning for a sustainable future. • Ways of meeting the professional development needs of educating for a sustainable future. • The potential of international collaboration in providing resources for teacher professional development. • The potential uses and benefits of multimedia technologies in pre- and in-service teacher education. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is being published initially in English with adaptations to suit different national and regional contexts as well as versions in additional languages planned. Free copies of this programme or information on related activities may be obtained from: UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France. UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable FutureThe 25 interactive modules in Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future provide 100 hours of professional development for teachers, student teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and the authors of educational materials. The programme utilises the latest multimedia education strategies to develop practical skills for integrating sustainable development into the school curriculum, and for using the teaching methods best suited to the knowledge, values and citizenship objectives of educating for a sustainable future. UNESCO, and the international community in general, believes that we need to foster – through education – the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is rooted in a new vision of education, a vision that helps students better understand the world in which they live, addressing the complexity and interconnectedness of problems such as poverty, wasteful consumption, environmental degradation, urban decay, population growth, health, conflict and the violation of human rights that threaten our future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is available in two formats – a CDROM and on the Internet at http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf Curriculum Rationale 1. Exploring global realities 2. Understanding sustainable development 3. A futures perspective in the curriculum 4. Reorienting education for a sustainable future 5. Accepting the challenge Teaching about Sustainability Across the Curriculum 6. Sustainable futures across the curriculum 7. Citizenship education 8. Health education 9. Consumer education Interdisciplinary Curriculum Themes 10. Culture and religion for a sustainable future 11. Indigenous knowledge and sustainability 12. Women and sustainable development 13. Population and development 14. Understanding world hunger 15. Sustainable agriculture 16. Sustainable tourism 17. Sustainable communities Teaching and Learning Strategies 18. Experiential learning 19. Story-telling 20. Values education 21. Enquiry learning 22. Appropriate assessment 23. Future problem solving 24. Learning outside the classroom 25. Community problem solving The world’s 60 million teachers are key agents for bringing about the changes needed for a sustainable future. A multimedia teacher education programme Vision: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is based upon a new vision of education, a vision that reorients the aims and content of education and teaching and learning approaches used by teachers so that they contribute to a sustainable future. Content: The modules address the difficult challenge of planning for whole-school change, teaching interdisciplinary themes, using learner-centred approaches to classroom teaching, and developing outcomes-based assessment strategies. Access: The multimedia format of Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future means that it can be used by teachers either independently or in small self-study groups – even in isolated locations – thus avoiding traditional barriers of access to training and new information. An innovative teacher education programme Cost: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is virtually cost free to users as UNESCO has absorbed research and development costs. Adaptability: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future can be translated into different languages. Its contents can also be adapted to different national and regional contexts. Guidelines on adaptation and translation are provided in the programme. A comprehensive teacher education programmeThe 25 interactive modules in Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future provide 100 hours of professional development for teachers, student teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and the authors of educational materials. The programme utilises the latest multimedia education strategies to develop practical skills for integrating sustainable development into the school curriculum, and for using the teaching methods best suited to the knowledge, values and citizenship objectives of educating for a sustainable future. UNESCO, and the international community in general, believes that we need to foster – through education – the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is rooted in a new vision of education, a vision that helps students better understand the world in which they live, addressing the complexity and interconnectedness of problems such as poverty, wasteful consumption, environmental degradation, urban decay, population growth, health, conflict and the violation of human rights that threaten our future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is available in two formats – a CDROM and on the Internet at http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf Curriculum Rationale 1. Exploring global realities 2. Understanding sustainable development 3. A futures perspective in the curriculum 4. Reorienting education for a sustainable future 5. Accepting the challenge Teaching about Sustainability Across the Curriculum 6. Sustainable futures across the curriculum 7. Citizenship education 8. Health education 9. Consumer education Interdisciplinary Curriculum Themes 10. Culture and religion for a sustainable future 11. Indigenous knowledge and sustainability 12. Women and sustainable development 13. Population and development 14. Understanding world hunger 15. Sustainable agriculture 16. Sustainable tourism 17. Sustainable communities Teaching and Learning Strategies 18. Experiential learning 19. Story-telling 20. Values education 21. Enquiry learning 22. Appropriate assessment 23. Future problem solving 24. Learning outside the classroom 25. Community problem solving The world’s 60 million teachers are key agents for bringing about the changes needed for a sustainable future. A multimedia teacher education programme Vision: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is based upon a new vision of education, a vision that reorients the aims and content of education and teaching and learning approaches used by teachers so that they contribute to a sustainable future. Content: The modules address the difficult challenge of planning for whole-school change, teaching interdisciplinary themes, using learner-centred approaches to classroom teaching, and developing outcomes-based assessment strategies. Access: The multimedia format of Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future means that it can be used by teachers either independently or in small self-study groups – even in isolated locations – thus avoiding traditional barriers of access to training and new information. An innovative teacher education programme Cost: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is virtually cost free to users as UNESCO has absorbed research and development costs. Adaptability: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future can be translated into different languages. Its contents can also be adapted to different national and regional contexts. Guidelines on adaptation and translation are provided in the programme. A comprehensive teacher education programmeThe 25 interactive modules in Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future provide 100 hours of professional development for teachers, student teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and the authors of educational materials. The programme utilises the latest multimedia education strategies to develop practical skills for integrating sustainable development into the school curriculum, and for using the teaching methods best suited to the knowledge, values and citizenship objectives of educating for a sustainable future. UNESCO, and the international community in general, believes that we need to foster – through education – the values, behaviour and lifestyles required for a sustainable future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is rooted in a new vision of education, a vision that helps students better understand the world in which they live, addressing the complexity and interconnectedness of problems such as poverty, wasteful consumption, environmental degradation, urban decay, population growth, health, conflict and the violation of human rights that threaten our future. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is available in two formats – a CDROM and on the Internet at http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf Curriculum Rationale 1. Exploring global realities 2. Understanding sustainable development 3. A futures perspective in the curriculum 4. Reorienting education for a sustainable future 5. Accepting the challenge Teaching about Sustainability Across the Curriculum 6. Sustainable futures across the curriculum 7. Citizenship education 8. Health education 9. Consumer education Interdisciplinary Curriculum Themes 10. Culture and religion for a sustainable future 11. Indigenous knowledge and sustainability 12. Women and sustainable development 13. Population and development 14. Understanding world hunger 15. Sustainable agriculture 16. Sustainable tourism 17. Sustainable communities Teaching and Learning Strategies 18. Experiential learning 19. Story-telling 20. Values education 21. Enquiry learning 22. Appropriate assessment 23. Future problem solving 24. Learning outside the classroom 25. Community problem solving The world’s 60 million teachers are key agents for bringing about the changes needed for a sustainable future. A multimedia teacher education programme Vision: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is based upon a new vision of education, a vision that reorients the aims and content of education and teaching and learning approaches used by teachers so that they contribute to a sustainable future. Content: The modules address the difficult challenge of planning for whole-school change, teaching interdisciplinary themes, using learner-centred approaches to classroom teaching, and developing outcomes-based assessment strategies. Access: The multimedia format of Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future means that it can be used by teachers either independently or in small self-study groups – even in isolated locations – thus avoiding traditional barriers of access to training and new information. An innovative teacher education programme Cost: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is virtually cost free to users as UNESCO has absorbed research and development costs. Adaptability: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future can be translated into different languages. Its contents can also be adapted to different national and regional contexts. Guidelines on adaptation and translation are provided in the programme. A comprehensive teacher education programmeTeaching and learning for a sustainable future A multimedia teacher education programme © UNESCO, 2002. All Rights Reserved. Prepared for UNESCO by Griffith University, Australia. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is one of several programmes initiated by UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future in its function as task manager for Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 and as a contribution to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2001. A multimedia teacher education programme that… Promotes a vision of education that empowers teachers and students to live, work and learn for a sustainable future. Supports educational reform by addressing the challenges of planning for whole-school change, updating curriculum content to focus on issues and values of sustainable development, and strategies for teaching in an interdisciplinary way. Provides guidelines and professional skills for using learner- centred teaching strategies, including: enquiry learning, learning outside the classroom, teaching controversial issues, promoting values and citizenship education, respecting and integrating indigenous knowledge, and developing outcomes-based assessment. Develops teachers’ IT and multimedia skills. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future has been developed by UNESCO as a demonstration project to illustrate: • Ways of promoting the quality of education through teacher education and a focus on teaching and learning for a sustainable future. • Ways of meeting the professional development needs of educating for a sustainable future. • The potential of international collaboration in providing resources for teacher professional development. • The potential uses and benefits of multimedia technologies in pre- and in-service teacher education. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is being published initially in English with adaptations to suit different national and regional contexts as well as versions in additional languages planned. Free copies of this programme or information on related activities may be obtained from: UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France. UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable FutureTeaching and learning for a sustainable future A multimedia teacher education programme © UNESCO, 2002. All Rights Reserved. Prepared for UNESCO by Griffith University, Australia. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is one of several programmes initiated by UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future in its function as task manager for Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 and as a contribution to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg 2001. A multimedia teacher education programme that… Promotes a vision of education that empowers teachers and students to live, work and learn for a sustainable future. Supports educational reform by addressing the challenges of planning for whole-school change, updating curriculum content to focus on issues and values of sustainable development, and strategies for teaching in an interdisciplinary way. Provides guidelines and professional skills for using learner- centred teaching strategies, including: enquiry learning, learning outside the classroom, teaching controversial issues, promoting values and citizenship education, respecting and integrating indigenous knowledge, and developing outcomes-based assessment. Develops teachers’ IT and multimedia skills. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future has been developed by UNESCO as a demonstration project to illustrate: • Ways of promoting the quality of education through teacher education and a focus on teaching and learning for a sustainable future. • Ways of meeting the professional development needs of educating for a sustainable future. • The potential of international collaboration in providing resources for teacher professional development. • The potential uses and benefits of multimedia technologies in pre- and in-service teacher education. Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is being published initially in English with adaptations to suit different national and regional contexts as well as versions in additional languages planned. Free copies of this programme or information on related activities may be obtained from: UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France. UNESCO: Educating for a Sustainable Future