Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers: Developing sustainability literacy through futures, values, systems, and strategic thinking part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
The Sustainability Education Framework for Teachers (SEFT) intends to build acapacity for educators to be able to understand: (i) the broad, complex nature of sustainability, (ii) the problem-oriented, solution driven nature of sustainability, and (iii) how sustainability connects to them as both citizens and classroom teachers. SEFT embraces four ways of thinking: futures, values, systems, and strategic which are conceptualized as being bi-directional and interconnected.

Education for Sustainability Framework part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
The Education for Sustainability (EfS) Working Group developed the following framework to provide guidelines for the integration of EfS principles across undergraduate and/or graduate courses or programs for pre-service teachers in Washington State. The EfS Framework is based on published principles for sustainability education derived from Burns (2011); Nolet (2009); and Santone, Saunders, & Seguin (2014).

Integrating the Engineering Design Process (EDP) into a Sustainability Project part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
The class session involving engineering encompasses readings, discussion, and activities on the differences between science and engineering, the EDP, and teaching the EDP. The class session on Sustainability involves readings and discussions defining sustainability and an activity on sustainability. These EDP and sustainability activities have been uploaded here under Supporting Materials.

Essential Elements of Sustainability in Teacher Education part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This article focuses on defining the proficiencies new teachers need in order to be able to lead in―educating for sustainability (EfS).Educating for sustainability involves teaching and learning collective problem solving skills to address critical environmental, economic, and social issues.This article addresses the essential elements of EfS (content knowledge, skills, behaviors, and dispositions) that need to be taught in teacher educationprograms so that new teachers can lead implementation of EfS with K-12 students.

Teaching for Transformation: (Re)Designing Sustainability Courses Based on Ecological Principles part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This paper describes the Burns model, meant to be used in designing courses where sustainability pedagogy and principles are central. This model is made up of 5 interacting goals.

What is Sustainability? Using Real-World Scenarios for Multidimensional Thinking and Personal Reflection (High School-College Undergraduates) part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
An introductory (100-level) environmental science lab was developed with an emphasis on reflection and application of sustainability concepts. Through a series of guided prompts, students were asked to use a multidisciplinary approach to examine the sustainability of the practices used in an applied agroecosystem scenario. Using their practiced skills in identifying and applying the three dimensions of sustainability, students were asked to reflect on one personal choice for each of eight aspects of daily consumption with the purpose of 1) devising a way to make each choice more sustainable, and 2) committing to one change utilizing SMART goal methodology.

Landscape Analysis Questionnaire Bank part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
These questions can be used via a surveying platform in order to help establish the current Education for Sustainability landscape in your context (department, college, university).

Preparing Sustainability-Literate Teachers part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This article explores sustainability as an emerging paradigm for pre-service preparation of teachers. Sustainability education, which is rooted in Deweyan ideas about the fundamental social purposes of schooling, attends to the tensions created by the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social equity systems. Sustainability education extends but does not replace environmental education or education for sustainable development, although the latter is considered a problematic idea.

Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation
Check out the June2022 Conference! »Welcome to the Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation Resource site! This website is designed to provide a curated set of resources for people working in the STEM K-12 ...

EfS Incubator Webinar: EfS Microcredential part of Innovations in STEM Teacher Preparation:Resources
This webinar describes the work done at Eastern Washington University to create an Education for Sustainability microcredential.