Please complete the following questions relating to your Change Project.
Teacher Education / TVET Change Projects are self-defined institutional change initiatives. They include curriculum innovations, pedagogical innovations and whole-institution innovations. Importantly, all Change Projects must be orientated towards sustainability, and to relevant policy in participating countries. Change Projects in teacher education can focus on teaching practice improvements, assessment, integration of culture and indigenous knowledge into curriculum, community engagement, and science and technology innovations for sustainability.
The Sustainability Starts with Teachers is an action learning progamme centred around a contextually defined ESD Change Project. During this course, you will be developing an ESD Change Project within your institution relevant to your context. The Change Project will be implemented with your colleagues in a community of practice. The monitoring and evaluation should therefore also be done collaboratively with your colleagues.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this learning action, you will have:
In this last Learning Action, we still follow the work of the five teacher educators as they make decisions about monitoring their ESD Change Project, and finding the value created by the project. Also using the work of the teacher educators, this Learning Action will help you understand how to scale impact of your ESD Change Project
Click here to open and read the Case Story.You can also listen to the story below.
As the UNESCO/Rhodes University Sustainability Starts with Teachers Programme is a UNESCO ESD Agenda 2030 linked programme, we hope that, as representative of your organisation, you will develop a carefully constituted, creative, and collaboratively grounded monitoring process for the Change Project so that you will be able to report on it in a final regional workshop, as well as share plans for scaling with your colleagues and others in your institution and network. A policy meeting will be held next year in April, and your Change Projects will be reported on there.
It will be important for you to report regularly on the progress being made with the Change Project, and to stay in communication with the course coordinators and the ESD Regional Reference Group for ongoing support. You may also work closely with the Ministry of Education and with the leadership of your institution, who are aware of your participation in the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme. Continue to work closely with colleagues in your Community of Practice on your Change Project!
To help you monitor and evaluate your Change Project, consider the following steps:
Figure 1 Change Project Monitoring Sheet (Learning Action 5 has a copy for you to fill in)
Work through the PowerPoint Presentation, saved as a .pdf file, on Monitoring and Evaluating your work among the Change Project Pathway.