13 January 2021
5 places for UNITE! teachers at Aalto's pedagogical training on sustainability in teaching
The course will be organised as a part of UNITE! pedagogical offering and will therefore be open to 5 participants from UNITE! partner institutions. A diploma of participation will be handed to the participants outside Aalto university.
Intended learning outcomes
After completing this course the participant will be able to
- Understand the basics of the sustainability crisis, the concepts of sustainability/sustainable development and the SDGs, key competences for sustainability and reflect on their implications to higher education and teaching
- relate sustainable development to one’s own specific subject field and identify key concepts and approaches that connect sustainability and the respective field
- Design learning outcomes, learning activities and assessment methods for integration of sustainability relevant themes in courses
- Apply and evaluate teaching methods for sustainability integration in own course
- Ability to engage students in discussion about emotions, especially anxiety, in relation to the sustainability crisis
Content
The course includes the following topics:
- Basics of sustainable development, SDGs and their role in higher education
- Key competencies of sustainability education: knowledges, skills, mindsets
- Linkages and relevance of sustainability for participants’ specific field; identifying key areas of sustainability relevance
- Defining sustainability learning objectives for own course
- Teaching methods (concrete examples) for integrating sustainability into teaching
- Assessment of sustainability learning
- Charting course material
- How to cope with student anxiety in regard to sustainability crisis
Contact sessions: Fridays March 5th to April 16th 2021(ne teaching 2nd April) at noon to 3 PM (UTC+2) in ZOOM
Prerequirements: To Aalto university participants A! Peda Intro or similar preferred
Number of places: 20 (15+5)
Workload: 2 or 3 ECTS equals 54/81 hours, 18 hours contact teaching in ZOOM
2 ECTS: Participation in contact teaching and related assignments
3 ECTS: Participation in contact teaching and related assignments and written course work
Contact: Pedagogical specialist Tiina Pylkkönen, tiina.pylkkonen @ aalto.fi (remove spaces)
Registration period:
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Accepted applicants will be notified latest 23.2.2021.
