Toolkit Overview

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Welcome!

This toolkit was designed to help you develop a deeper understanding of sustainability and how you can incorporate it into your classroom in meaningful ways – even if the course material isn’t about sustainability.

Understanding sustainability and engaging your students with sustainability concepts that are relevant to their sector are priorities for Humber as shown in the Humber Learning Outcomes framework, in which sustainability is a key mindset.

This toolkit will provide helpful resources on curriculum and assessment design to engage your students and equip them with the skills they need to lead in an uncertain future.

Key threads that will link elements of this toolkit together are the three dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social, and economic – referred to as the “Triple Bottom Line”) and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs) as referenced in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

• Understand the definition of sustainability guiding Humber College’s actions.
• Understand the SDGs, their relevance and impact on a particular sector and discipline. 
• Evaluate the sustainability readiness of an existing student learning experience. 
• Design a new student learning experience that highlights the connections between the SDGs and course subject matter.
• Identify relevant resources for use in class that provide a sustainability perspective on a discipline.