Education for Sustainability/Assessment

=Course Assessment=

To pass this course participants must undertake and successfully pass two assessment activities, these are:

1: Explain your understanding of sustainability, both personally and in relation to your industry - excerpts from your reflective learning journal

2: Demonstrate a process of implementing EfS into your own course - excerpts from your reflective learning journal

Grading: As the emphasis is on learning process rather than outcome there are 2 grades in this course: passed or not passed.

Assessment Activities
1: Explain your understanding of sustainability:

Throughout your engagement with this course you are asked to maintain a learning journal, you can do this in whatever format is most useful to you. A blog, a written document, or voice recordings are some examples, but you need to be able to share excerpts of your learning progress with the course facilitator.

This assessment corrolates directly with the weekly activities, from weeks 1-5.

Assessment: As you progress through the course, submit one excerpt per weekly activity from your learning journal that demonstrate reflection of what sustainability means to you personally and within your industry. You can choose the size of your excerpt; some will be smaller/larger than others depending upon the focus. Discuss any queries with your course facilitator. You will receive feedback on each submission.

Marking criteria: Achievement of the following criteria will result in a successful pass for this assessment:

a) Reflection of what sustainability means to you, both locally and globally;

b) Reflection of what sustainability means to your industry, both locally and globally (including the pros and cons).

Due Dates: Confirmed dates are to be negotiated with the course facilitator.

2: Demonstrate a process of implementing EfS into your own course:

Utilising the concepts of action competence and critical thinking, design an experiential learning activity that can enhance awareness for your students about sustainability and provide them with tools to add social, environmental and economic value within your industry. It is recommended that you base this learning activity around one or two of your courses' learning outcomes or unit standards, or an aspect of these

This second assessment corrolates directly with the weekly activities, from weeks 6-8.

Assessment: Describe your activity in a written and/or illustrated form and reflect on how it can enhance awareness about sustainability and provide students with tools to add social, environmental and economic value within your industry.

Marking criteria: Achievement of the following criteria will result in a successful pass for this assessment:

a) An example of a process for including sustainability into education within your industry;

b) Reflection upon how these tools can empower students to continue learning about sustainability.

Due Date: Confirmed dates are to be negotiated with the course facilitator.