EfS in Schools
Education for sustainability fosters innovative approaches to curriculum design and review, and provides many opportunities for students to become confident, connected, actively involved, life-long learners.
Schools choosing to include a sustainability focus can do so in a number of ways. For example:
- through developing a whole school approach where students engaging in practices, projects and ways of working that lead to a more sustainable future forms the basis of the curriculum and teaching and learning programmes
- by using the NCEA Achievement Standards in Education for Sustainability to engage students in worthwhile qualifications
- by including the multitude of meaningful learning contexts, issues and community projects that sustainability provides across learning areas and levels of the curriculum.
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Primary schools
EfS provides opportunities for students to engage in genuine learning in their communities and take action
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Secondary schools
EfS provides a context that enables meaningful connections between learning areas for teachers and students.
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Leadership in schools
EfS can play a central role in achieving the direction set out in the national curriculum and prepare our students to meet future challenges in a rapidly changing world.
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What is a sustainable school?
Four areas of school life work together to create a sustainable school: people, programmes, place, practice.