5 hours of Professional Development
3 hours Face to Face, 2 hours post-workshop assignment
Facilitated by Anouchka Rachelson        

Miami Dade College has shown its commitment to environmental sustainability since Dr. Padrón signed the Talloires Declaration, a ten-point action plan for incorporating sustainability and environmental literacy in teaching, research, operations and outreach at the college, in 2006. Since then, many Earth Ethics Institute workshops focusing on various aspects of sustainability content and pedagogy have prepared faculty to infuse their curricula accordingly. This is important because the workplace of the 21^st Century needs professionals who are aware of the many environmental, economic, and social challenges we face in a globalized world. Whether our graduates will work for small or medium enterprises or multinational companies, they will need to be increasingly competent regarding sustainable development across every sector. Our faculty can assist students gain this awareness and develop the necessary competencies. This workshop will help faculty learn how every individual regardless of the professional field can make a meaningful contribution to sustainability by improving general and specific sustainability competences.

Objectives

This workshop will introduce seven sustainability competences that can help professionals make a meaningful contribution to environmental sustainability and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As a result of successfully completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

Describe seven sustainability competences for best practice in a work setting.

Explain how professionals in their discipline can contribute to sustainable development.

Specify their present level of sustainability competence and define their ambition level.

Describe how sustainability competences can be used as a teaching tool in various disciplines.

Create an activity that connects at least one of the sustainability competences to their curriculum and/or professional field.

Evaluation:

 As a result of participating in this workshop, I can:

1.      describe seven sustainability competences for best practice in a work setting.

2.      explain how professionals in their discipline can contribute to sustainable development.

3.      specify my present level of sustainability competence and define my ambition level.

4.      describe how sustainability competences can be used as a teaching tool in various disciplines.

5.      create an activity that connects at least one of the sustainability competences to my curriculum and/or professional field.

Evaluation will include completion of workshop and development of a discipline-specific course module or lesson plan addressing global sustainability. The lesson plan is due to the Earth Ethics Institute within three weeks of the workshop and will be posted on the EEI website.

Facilitator:

Dr. Anouchka Rachelson is a professor in the department of World Languages at the Kendall Campus and has served on the Earth Ethics Institute Council since 2006. She has published articles in The Journal of Sustainability Education and regularly incorporates sustainability issues in her curriculum. Dr. Rachelson has facilitated two graduate courses and several CT&D/CIOL workshops focusing on sustainability education for MDC faculty and has been instrumental in implementing the College’s Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) program. In her dissertation (2010), Professor Rachelson analyzed the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of community college faculty with respect to sustainable development. In 2015, she was honored to receive the Dr. Eduardo Padrón Endowed Teaching Chair Award. She recently co-authored the book The Seven Competences of the Sustainability Professional – Developing Best Practice in a Work Setting (Routledge, 2018) with Dr. Niko Roorda, a researcher and sustainability consultant from the Netherlands.