SERVICE LEARNING INSTITUTE

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding what service learning is, and why all schools need a service learning program based on research. 
• Knowledge of how to implement the standards of service learning in a current unit through engaging instructional strategies for learner agency. 
• Know how to set up meaningful community partnerships for projects, sustainability and impact.

Enduring Understanding:

• Service-learning provides meaningful learning opportunities to apply and develop skills, dispositions, knowledge and understanding with community for agency and impact.

SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE

Learning Outcomes

As a result of taking this workshop through interactive learning that will instruct on how to:

• Discuss the imperative for sustainability education
• Identify sustainability dispositions and examine their compatibility with personal educational philosophy and institutional values
• Understand the Compass as a whole system thinking tool supporting sustainability habits of mind.
• Explore the educational uses of systems thinking tools (behavior over time graphs, closed loop diagrams and the Iceberg Model)
• Examine how sustainability perspectives and systems thinking tools can be integrated into teaching and learning 
• Adapt unit/lesson plans to integrate sustainability perspectives and systems thinking tools

Enduring Understanding

Systems thinking enables educators to help their students develop the knowledge, skills and dispositions necessary to participate in a complex and interdependent world.

INSTITUTE LOCATION: Methoni, Greece