Monitoring, Reviewing, Reporting

An interactive ‘campus’ toolkit developed by the International Institute for Sustainable Development to introduce some of the basic concepts of sustainable development and ways these concepts are put into practice. Developed primarily for Higher Education. A section on indicators and measurement shows how to track progress towards sustainability.

Curriculum review and evaluation

As learning and action proceed hand-in-hand, measuring your progress and evaluating how successful you are will be essential. Clear goals and the means to assess their achievement are vital. Evaluation is a crucial part of the development process. Without it, you will be unable to track improvement and change.

Decide how you will track changes and measure progress in embedding sustainable
development principles into your teaching programme as well as the techniques you will need to do so.

OFSTED published a report in 2003 about piloting an inspection framework for sustainable development in schools, ‘Taking the first steps forward –towards an education for sustainable development’ See Annex C for a checklist for self-evaluation.

Good practice in school self-evaluation and college self-assessment is a practical guide for busy managers at all levels. It clarifies what self-evaluation and self-assessment are and why institutions are required to do them. This is followed by an identification of the critical success factors in self-evaluation and self-assessment. The annex contains a series of checklists and a summary of good practice.

A useful self-assessment resource sheet (activity 5) can be found in the WWF document ‘Learning for Sustainability’

Decide how the impact/benefits of the curriculum changes you make can be fedback into further learning and development.