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Supporting Staff in Teaching About Sustainability

Description

Theme:

Professional Development.

Category:

Education and Research.

Course Overview:.

- The course comprises follows on from a series of workshops designed in 2023, by Responsible Futures and Transformative Education.

- Participants can book onto an event in either Streatham or Penryn, they will be run simultaneously in hybrid format.

- This is the booking page for the initial workshop in the 2024 series.

- These workshops are co-facilitated and co-created by students, academics, and professional service staff in the Responsible Futures working group.

- This workshop will offer practical advice and tools for bringing the Sustainable Development Goals and Education for Sustainable Development principles into your teaching and practice; and an opportunity to reflect and share ideas with colleagues.

- It will serve as a follow-on from the Responsible Futures staff support survey, which seeks to understand staff members' confidence in teaching about sustainability and other related issues to students.

We use staff feedback to design and refine all workshops and materials, to support them in teaching about sustainability.

- Participants will be supported to create case studies that can be shared to help others, through the review session, follow-on conversations, and a questionnaire.

Audience:

-Those interested in learning about and sharing their expertise on Education for Sustainable Development and how to effectively engage with students on this topic.

-Those who filled out the Responsible Futures staff support survey and would like to further reflect on their confidence in teaching about sustainability and related issues.

-Those who would like to connect and potentially get involved with relevant initiatives at the University, such as Responsible Futures and Transformative Education.

-Those who would like to engage with students in a meaningful, facilitated session.

-Those who would like to go further after taking part in the SDG Teach In 2024.

- The course will be run in a hybrid format allowing for in-person attendance in Exeter or Cornwall.

Please select your preferred attendance option - in person (Streatham or Penryn Campus)from the booking selection below.

Pre-work Requisites:

Participants should register for the workshops they wish to attend and any further information will be sent to registered participants by email and posted on the Responsible Futures sharepoint site:.

https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/:u:/r/sites/ResponsibleFutures/SitePages/Home.aspx?csf=1&web=1&share=ERf-CGXxGK9LryT7MCTLG7YByvPsQ1tWx1NPg_DNd8_ZIw&e=dFxeZR .

Facilitators: Bethany Lewis, Sean Porter, Rosie Cornelius-Light, Tim Hughes, CJ Watson, Becky Rowe, Maddie Munday, Charlotte Boddy, and other members of the Responsible Futures and Transformative Education teams.

Duration:

2 hours.

Course Administration:

This course is administered by People Development; please contact peopledevelopment@exeter.ac.uk for more details.

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