Education For Sustainability (EfS)
Summer Institute

or
Course CNED-5750-D, 3CR

July 29th–August 1, 2019
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
at the
Teacher Center at Riverside,
Lyndonville, Vermont

How can schools be a key player in nurturing environmentally and sociall vital and equitable communities? Education for Sustainability acknowledges and addresses the gap between this vision for the future and the ability of our current education system to get us there. In this institute, you will explore strategies for engaging learners in experiences that build their capacity and identity as agents of change.

 This course focuses on the interdependence of environment, economy and equity (the three Es of Educating for Sustainability) and how we can incorporate sustainability at any grade level and in every subject area. As educators, we have the opportunity to model sustainable practices, to open our students' minds to the possibilities of a sustainable future and to help guide them to be responsible citizens for change in their communities.

Designed to be dynamic and democratic, the institute offers teachers and administrators the time and space to develop projects of personal interest while providing opportunities to learn from colleagues and other leaders in the field of Education for Sustainability. Interactive sessions will feature a blend of individual work time, peer-to-peer feedback, resource sharing, hands-on learning experiences, and large and small group discussions. Our overall goal is to ensure participants have the opportunity to develop connections between curriculum and community, work and dialogue together, and reflect in an inspiring setting that models sustainability and systems thinking.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Gain familiararity with and practice the skills to apply Education for Sustainability (EFS) as a unifying framework for education that helps students contribute to creating a healthy economic, social, and environmental future for their communities.
• Build knowledge about community sustainability efforts, resources, and opportunities to integrate them into curriculum.
• Use the big ideas of sustainability as a lens through which to meet standards-based curriculum and assessment goals and address school initiatives.
• Practice using curriculum planning tools to integrate EFS
• Collaboratively develop, present, and evaluate a curriculum unit that uses the Big Ideas of Sustainability as integrative concepts.
• Build awareness of a variety of techniques to use as part of student reflection and educator resilience.
• Deepen understanding of complex systems and systems dynamics in social and ecological contexts.
• Be part of a learning community providing each other feedback, resources and suggestions.

This class is being offered through the Teacher Center at Riverside in Lyndonville, Vermont. Graduate credit is available through Antioch University New England.

You have two enrollment choices:

• Enroll for professsional development hours (the face-to-face time) and receive a certificate of completion which you keep for documentation of your credentials.
• Enroll for graduate credit (additional online work and documentation required. This makes available a graduate level transcript with credits that are transferrable to other universities.

Registration Costs:

One-week Institute: $560.00
Graduate Course: $1,010.00