LTA Connect - Exploring and celebrating the SLE: Embedding sustainability in teaching

Session Outline

UHI's Sustainability Strategy includes the target to embed Learning for Sustainability into all taught courses by 2027 at the latest. For some staff teaching on programmes outside of the environmental sciences, it may not be immediately obvious how to do this. However, sustainability is a broad concept and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) offers a framework for everyone to find connections between their area of interest and sustainability. A few years ago I signed onto a challenge, led by students, to teach them the sustainable development goals. It was an inspiring experience for me and student feedback was tremendously positive, so now I do it every year. If I, as a creative arts teacher, can find ways to link sustainability to everything we do, anyone can! This presentation will show how I have embedded sustainability in modules I have taught in creative writing, literature, English and communications, from level 5 to level 11.

Presenter

Mandy Haggith teaches creative writing, writes poetry, novels and non-fiction and does poetic inquiry research. Her PhD was originally in Artificial Intelligence, back when that was a newfangled thing. She then spent two decades trying, and failing, to save the world's forests whilst learning to write creatively. She has lived in Assynt, in the northwest Highlands, since 1999 and joined UHI in 2018. Her latest book is The Lost Elms.

Learning and Teaching Enhancement Strategy Values

Advance HE Professional Standards Framework

• V3 use scholarship, or research, or professional learning, or other evidence-informed approaches as a basis for effective practice
• V4 respond to the wider context in which higher education operates, recognising implications for practice
• A1 design and plan learning activities and/or programmes
• K2 approaches to teaching and/or supporting learning, appropriate for subjects and level of study
• A4 support and guide learners 

Professional Standard's for Scotland's Colleges

• 2.2.2 Understands the rationale for, and how to design, plan, develop, deliver the curriculum effectively and efficiently as an individual and in collaboration with others. 
• 1.2.5 Embraces and embeds sustainability in learning and teaching. 
• 3.3.1 Designs, delivers and evaluates a demand-led curriculum which prepares the students for a dynamic labour market. 
• 2.3.5 Understands the nature and agenda for sustainability, and works in partnership to ensure the most effective, efficient and inclusive development and use of learning resources. 

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