United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Project
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals provide an excellent opportunity to implement problem-based learning in the classroom and an authentic context in which to address many of the outcomes from the Australian Curriculum. This presentation will provide background information to the goals, explore links to the Australian Curriculum and the UNESCO Transversal Competencies and identify the growing range of resources, programs and initiatives that support the achievement of the goals. It will also describe a challenge website that has been created to help teachers and students engage with the goals individually and as a class. Students achieve digital badges as they progress through the 10 challenges. Teacher librarians will be provided with strategies for how to support the implementation of the goals within the school library and the school.
Outcomes for attendee
At the completion of the webinar attendees will be able to:
Pre-requisites
None
What’s provided
Audience
Teacher Librarians, Resource Teachers, Classroom Teachers
Workshop Structure
The workshop will be a combination of information dissemination, group discussion and strategic planning as it relates to individual participant contexts.
Australian Curriculum Standards Mapping
The following curriculum standards will be addresses in the content of the workshop:
A Curriculum Mapping Document will be provided as part of the workshop materials package.
ICT General Capabilities
Australian Professional Teacher Standards
The following Australian Professional Teacher Standards will be addressed as a result of participating in this workshop.
Outcomes for attendee
At the completion of the webinar attendees will be able to:
- Identify the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Identify and access a range of resources that support the development of the goals within a school context
- Identify which outcomes from the Australian curriculum support the UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Establish how the UN Sustainable Development goals can be used to implement problem-based and inquiry learning in the classroom.
Pre-requisites
None
What’s provided
- Course workbook
- Access to an extensive repository of online resouces designed to support teachers in engaging with the UNSDGs
- PD Certificate with details of the Australian Professional Standards addressed
Audience
Teacher Librarians, Resource Teachers, Classroom Teachers
Workshop Structure
The workshop will be a combination of information dissemination, group discussion and strategic planning as it relates to individual participant contexts.
Australian Curriculum Standards Mapping
The following curriculum standards will be addresses in the content of the workshop:
A Curriculum Mapping Document will be provided as part of the workshop materials package.
ICT General Capabilities
- Applying social and ethical protocols and practices when using ICT
- Managing and Operating ICT
- Communicating with ICT
- Creating with ICT
- Investigating with ICT
- Inquiring - identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas
- Generating ideas, possibilities and actions
- Analysing, synthesising and evaluating reasoning and procedures
- Reflecting on thinking and processes
Australian Professional Teacher Standards
The following Australian Professional Teacher Standards will be addressed as a result of participating in this workshop.
- Know students and how they learn 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4,, 1.5, 1.6
- Know the content and how to teach it 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
- Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7
- Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5
- Assess and provide feedback and report on student learning 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
- Engage in professional learning6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
- Engage professional with colleagues, parents and the community 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4