1 Making connections: Teaching, learning and sustainability at McGill Marcy Slapcoff October 22, 2009

TLS approach to course design Content: What is the subject matter of your course? Learning outcomes: What knowledge, skills, attitudes/values will students have the opportunity to develop? Strategies for instruction: What activities will support learning? Strategies for assessment: What evidence will demonstrate whether students have learned? 22

How are course design and sustainability linked? Content - interdisciplinarity, interdependence Learning outcomes – systems thinking, the ability to envision the future Strategies for instruction and assessment – active, experiential, inquiry based learning and real-world problem solving on the campus and in the community. 33

Examples of course design that reflects sustainability Content - Art History, Northern Arizona University Learning outcomes – Modeling Environmental Systems (Geog. 501), McGill University Strategies for instruction and assessment – Collaboration between School of Architecture, McGill and École de technologie supérieure (ETS) 44

55  Ecosphere Ecosphere Society Institution Students & Professors Based on S. Stirling, 2004 in Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability, p. 52.