Step 2 – Assess your current position

1. Individually

Please read the text below individually: which phase suits your training now? Which indicators apply or do not apply to the situation your training is in?

2. Collectively

After a few minutes please discuss your personal findings in the group. Try to find a shared opinion by listening carefully to everyone’s arguments. Try to avoid voting. Click the green button if all indicators are fulfilled, click the blue button if not all indicators are met. Then click the button which helps you to identify your ambition: what is the next phase you want to go to?

A phase is completed if all indicators are met – and all of those of the phases before! So phase 3 can only be achieved if all indicators of phase 1 and 2 are met.

Role of the teacher

Similarity between what an instructor teaches about sustainability and the way he or she behaves enhances the credibility and effectivity of what is instructed.

It is important that teachers themselves also practice sustainable acting and thinking. Teachers are aware of their role in this area and demonstrate to students that sustainability matters through their own behaviour and attitude.

1
Activity oriented
- Some teachers highlight the importance of sustainability to students.
2
Process oriented
- The educational programme stimulates teachers to stress the importance of a sustainable attitude, by means of their education, attitude and behaviour.
- Teachers within a teaching team exchange thoughts on what a sustainable attitude means, both within the field and as a citizen/consumer.
3
System oriented
- Co-workers, both within and outside of the team, exchange thoughts on what a sustainable attitude entails and what sustainable behaviour means.
- Teachers and students exchange thoughts on what a sustainable attitude entails and what sustainable behaviour means.
4
Chain oriented
- Teachers and students regularly exchange thoughts with businesses on what a sustainable attitude entails and what sustainable behaviour means.
- Teachers involve external partners/parties to show demonstrate what sustainable behaviour means in practice.
5
Society oriented
- Teachers and students regularly exchange thoughts with social partners on what a sustainable attitude entails and what sustainable behaviour means, as a professional and as a citizen.

Step 2 – Assess your current position

1. Individually

2. Collectively

Step 3 – Determine your ambition

Role of the teacher