Mark Caddey, Sustainability AdvisorLearning and Leadership Directorate

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Introductions

Today’s program

Housekeeping

Engaging students

Research warns of the potential for disengaging students with negative environmental messages

Make it real and relevant – Thermal comfort classroom thermometer

Make it creative! – The rock of power behind the light switch

4 C Gordon West

Make it fun!

Today’s program

Institute of teachers course information

Learning for sustainability

Climate Clever Energy Savers program Stories of success Sustainability action process Resources – wiki, scaffold, DEC Assets, Webgraphs What the evaluation has told us so far Regional networking

This DEC course or program has been approved for professional development under the terms of the NSW Institute of Teachers Continuing Professional Development policy. Completion of course/s will allow participants to claim the prescribed numbers of hours for the attainment or maintenance of Professional Competence.

Climate Clever Energy Savers (CCES) one-day workshopCourse code: 151CUK116 Hours: 5

Climate Clever Energy Savers (CCES) mixed modeprofessional learningCourse code: 151CUK115 Hours: 20

NSW Institute of Teachers

Sustainability is a goal or state ‘in which society meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.’

environmental political social educational

personal financialOthers?

Defining sustainability

Group discussion 5 mins sharing 5 mins

How do you engage students in sustainability education? List some activities.

Use the half A4 paper

Learning for Sustainability

Table discussion 10 mins

Learning for sustainability is learning that is intended to occur as part of the formal school curriculum for the purpose of

equipping students with skills, knowledge and confidence to contribute to achieving a sustainable future.

Learning for sustainability

enable students to develop energy saving and greenhouse gas reduction proposals and action plans

enhance student engagement and the learning of subject matter

embed learning for sustainability into the school curriculum

support an across KLA approach to authentic project-based sustainability work.

Use the Sustainability action process

Climate Clever Energy Savers aims

Develop and implement a teaching and learning program using the sustainability action process and related assessment tasks

Support students investigate and plan energy efficiency and reduction strategies

Submit quality student proposal/s to Principal for endorsement

Submit Principal endorsed proposals to regional coordinators

Support students to implement funded proposals

Evaluate program by completing on-line survey.

So what will you need to do?

Principal: provide support to the participating teacher endorse suitable proposals.

Regional Coordinators: coordination of regional professional learning supporting schools to implement the program selection of proposals for funding Video conferences.

DEC Learning and Leadership: provision of professional development and curriculum resources funds to support professional learning, regional coordinator & proposal

implementation

Who will support you to do this?

Climate Clever Energy Savers

Sharing our Climate Clever journey, stories from past primary and high school participants

Climate Clever Energy Savers 2010-12What have we learned so far?

Major findingsStudent engagement highSustainability action process scaffold is positiveAwareness raising & behaviour changeRegional support critical

UTS undertaking evaluation over 4 years of the project – Dr John Buchanan

Evaluation will continue in 2014, data collection from schools includes: on-line surveys, teacher & student interviews & work samples

KLAs, Primary

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KLAs, Secondary

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Learning outcomes

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Climate Clever Energy Savers

A Climate Clever Energy Savers communication project

Linfield East Public School

Morning tea 20 minutes

Sustainability action process

A scaffolded process to promote a change or action that achieves sustainability outcomes.

Each step builds on the knowledge and skills of the preceding step.

Blends existing investigation and action methodologies – science, technology, geography

Sustainability action process

Where do your environmental activities fit with the SAP?

Use your the suggestions for engaging students in environmental activities from this morning.

Deconstruct your activity and describe what you did at each step

Any holes or gaps?

Sharing stories

Group activity 15 mins

Climate Clever - Where do you start?

Student challenge

Resources to get you started Audits Energy notebook resource Sustainability activities

Allegoric Apple & Water bucket

Climate Clever student challenge

You are challenged to identify a sustainability issue in your school and to develop a creative and practical proposal for action that will save energy and reduce greenhouse gases.

Through this project you will engage with issues of sustainability, learn how to take sustainability action to make a difference to your world, and strengthen your knowledge, understanding and skills related to school subjects.

This is an authentic project in which your proposal can be implemented, provided that it is both well researched and designed. Your proposal will need to be selected by your teacher and school principal for action in your school. If selected, it will be forwarded for regional evaluation and may receive funding.

Project information and support materials

Primary and secondary – units of work, student learning resources (IWB), sample e-folios & proposals

Websites, print material and videos

Energy efficiency and climate change information and readings

Explore the USB and discuss

Supporting resources - USB

Group activity 15 mins

Other resources

DEC Assets – audits, information pages, problem solvers,appliances and cost calculators. PDF’s on the USB.My favourite – Thermal performance solutions for my school

Webgraphs – monitor your schools electricity consumption Log in with your school code and password Welcome01www.webgraphs.com.au

Includes all of the material on the USB Units of work & work samples Learning resources Discussion pages information on video conferences information for New Scheme Teachers

www.wikispaces.com

Climate Clever 13 Wiki

Teacher resource materials on USB

Primary and secondary

Linked to sustainability action process

Links to suggested activities

Teaching and Learning Sequence

Group task - Create a lesson

Create 1 or 2 lessons to introduce your students to energy efficiency and investigations;

Creating context / challenge / purpose

Stage / KLA

Student / group structure

Resources

Activities

Group activity 20 mins, sharing 10 mins

scaffolded to reflect steps of the sustainability action process

provided in two formats, Word and OneNote

teachers free to use other formats

to be submitted electronically with proposal

Student e-folio

product of step 3 of the sustainability action process- template and samples on USB

supported by and summarises the e-folio

submitted to Principal for approval

Principal approved submissions electronically sent to Regional Coordinators

The Proposal

Implementation

Step 4 in the sustainability action process

needs monitoring and evidence / data gathering by students

Even if physical implementation by other – eg installing lights not a passive stage for students

Needs to set students up for evaluating the project

Certificates for students

Student construct project reports

Students reflect on project

Reflection on the learning

Evaluation and Reflection

Regional Support

Regional coordinator – timeframe, coordinator availability

further Regional workshops

regional networking and collegial support

about the program?

about the funding?

about the timeframe?

anything else?

Questions

Lunch

Lunch 45 minutes