The Teaching Innovation Incubator is proud to announce that Integrating Sustainability into the Curriculum project was shortlisted for the 2024 QS Reimagine Education Rewards.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator is excited to announce its support of the newly launched Sustainability in the Curriculum Community of Practice.
This Community of Practice is open to all faculty, instructors, and support staff who are interested in sustainability integration work. The first session will take place on November 27, 2024 from 1:00-2:30pm in EIT 3142. Registration is required.
Come out and bring a friend! All are welcome.
The Teaching Innovation Incubator is excited to announce its support of a new pilot funding program opportunity by the Sustainability Office. This program, the Sustainability Integration in the Curriculum (SIC) Grant is a new funding program for academic departments to deepen integration of sustainability within any undergrad program of study.
The new Sustainability Integration in Curriculum (SIC) grants are intended to catalyze efforts that draw connections between major sustainability challenges and the skills, experiences, and competencies students can leverage through their discipline to support a more sustainable future.
The grants can be for up to $7,500 each and can cover a wide range of activities that a department could implement to further their sustainability integration efforts, including research, workshops, supplies and materials, student incentives, and more. Applications are due by November 1 and will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty and educational developers.
Thee Sustainability Toolkit equips faculty with resources to incorporate climate change and sustainability principles into your courses.
Sustainability in the Curriculum now has its own website which shares information, resources, and other information for faculty, staff, and students interested in learning more about how they can integrate and study sustainability principles into their courses.
The Accelerating Sustainability into the Curriculum Report is here. The report highlights existing siloed efforts at integrating sustainability principles into education at Waterloo and strong campus support for a more cohesive approach to integrating sustainability into education.
The Accelerating Integration of Sustainability into the Curriculum project shared their findings from their study on integrating sustainability into the curriculum at the University of Waterloo's Teaching and Learning Conference.
The need to incorporate sustainability into post-secondary education is identified and supported by undergraduate students.
The Working Group helping to support the Accelerating Integration of Sustainability into the Curriculum project has wrapped up campus consultations. The project team now moves onto the next phase of the project, preparing a report with key recommendations to share with the campus community about these findings.
The “Accelerating integration of sustainability and climate change in campus undergraduate programs” is working to identify a flexible framework through which climate and sustainability competencies can be integrated into any program of study as they are relevant, and identify processes and tools to support program administrators, chairs, instructors, and central support units to utilize the framework.
Thus far, a cross-functional, interdisciplinary working group of faculty, staff, and students has designed a draft version of a five-step framework and accompanying toolkit to aid units in determining how sustainability education might align with existing program outcomes, and which tools or resources can be incorporated to further integration of sustainability.
Consultations with Chairs and Associate Chairs, Undergrad, will be scheduled throughout the fall term to receive input and feedback on this model. In year 2 of the project, this framework and toolkit will be piloted with partner programs to test its feasibility and generate best practices to guide future interest in integrating sustainability into the curriculum.