"Through
incorporating education for sustainability into your classroom, you
are helping your students create a more healthy, habitable and
equitable world by helping them become active citizens."
---Debra
Rowe
The Benefits:
How does teaching
Sustainability
Concepts
benefit my students?
Whether you think of environmental, economic, sociological, or
religious issues when conversations about living sustainably arise, it
remains clear that sustainability is an important albeit complex topic
of discussion for the educational community. By embracing
environmental sustainability as a vital topic within the classroom,
students internalize the importance of a high quality of life through:
¨ Expanding
awareness of how to create a more healthy and equitable world for
all beings.
¨ Encouraging
creative problem solving through
hands-on experimentation.
- Stimulating ownership and responsibility
in your students’
personal and everyday actions as well as their social actions &
decisions within their community.
- Empowering students
to evaluate their actions and helping
them make more consistent decisions that benefit all beings.
- Increasing critical thinking skills
and deep problem solving
by using cyclical reasoning and real-world examples to better
understand class subject matter.
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