Suggested Approaches

BackPack also suggests approaches to help you:

• Design, implement and evaluate successful, creative learning programmes
• Make links between aims and objectives of the New Zealand Curriculum / Te Marautanga o Aotearoa and environmental learning contexts
• Readily integrate Environmental Education, Education for Sustainability and Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) into your existing teaching approach, right across the curriculum
• Use meaningful, hands-on contexts to engage your learners in exploring the “big ideas” or key concepts behind Environmental Education, Education for Sustainability and EOTC
• Guide students to investigate implications of these key concepts and their everyday relevance to the students themselves and their communities
• Guide students to reflect on and evaluate their learning and encourage them to apply it to new contexts
• Use a range of teaching methods to develop key skills which lead students to action competence

Action Competence

The ability and willingness to take action on issues of interest. In practice – students learning about environmental issues; enabling them to plan and take informed action on those issues. Action competence supports the development of the key competencies in the New Zealand Curriculum through the process of taking action.
(Refer TKI website)