FOSTERING A CULTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN SCHOOL
In a globalizing world of limited resources and unlimited ingenuity, schools play a vital role in preparing students to meet the sustainability challenges of future. The imperatives of sustainability point not only to new course content, but also to new ways to teaching that content. As a project with relevance across the disciplines, sustainability presents a valuable paradigm for rethinking pedagogy.
Environmental sustainability is the development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs. It contains two key concepts: - The concept of ‘needs’, in
particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding
priority should be given.
- The idea of limitation imposed by state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.
- The idea of limitation imposed by state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.
Along with academics and sports, students at PICT are inspired to excel
at their responsibilities towards mother nature. · We guide them
towards activities like tree plantation, gardening, and teach them
awareness and importance of environment.
· What’s more, teaching sustainability could facilitate better learning outcomes for students. Studies show that hands-on civic engagement projects can boost student achievement in reading and science.
· Our educators learn about the community’s vision and strategies for a sustainable future, then bring this larger dialog into the curriculum with a focus that’s appropriate for our students, hence promoting sustainability and environmental learning.
· We encourage young learners to take action to protect the environment and to be the change for sustainability. It begins in the classrooms, expands to school and fosters changes in the community.
PICT Model School presents a unique Kitchen Garden. We have our very own kitchen garden where students are encouraged to grow organic fruits and vegetables and also take care of the plants. For many children, a garden offers the only chance to get close to nature. Some lack access to gardening spaces because of their living situations while others have limited exploratory free time outdoors. At PICT, the kitchen garden provides students’ their first opportunity to dig into soil and watch a plant grow. Also, based on the principle ‘matter can neither be created nor can be destroyed, it only changes forms’ a compost pit allows young minds to observe how we give back to nature what we harvest from it.
The bigger picture The bigger perspective is that fostering environmental sustainability in school enables students to develop skills, empathy and motivation for actions that contribute to their own wellbeing, and that of their community and the planet, in an increasingly interconnected world. In a classroom, on day-to-day basis, sustainability enriches and strengthens students’ learning.
At PICT, we focus on our collective lens of what we think the purpose of environment sustainability really is: to foster thriving students, school and communities, so as to cultivate leaders that are prepared to troubleshoot challenges of the 21st Century.
· What’s more, teaching sustainability could facilitate better learning outcomes for students. Studies show that hands-on civic engagement projects can boost student achievement in reading and science.
· Our educators learn about the community’s vision and strategies for a sustainable future, then bring this larger dialog into the curriculum with a focus that’s appropriate for our students, hence promoting sustainability and environmental learning.
· We encourage young learners to take action to protect the environment and to be the change for sustainability. It begins in the classrooms, expands to school and fosters changes in the community.
PICT Model School presents a unique Kitchen Garden. We have our very own kitchen garden where students are encouraged to grow organic fruits and vegetables and also take care of the plants. For many children, a garden offers the only chance to get close to nature. Some lack access to gardening spaces because of their living situations while others have limited exploratory free time outdoors. At PICT, the kitchen garden provides students’ their first opportunity to dig into soil and watch a plant grow. Also, based on the principle ‘matter can neither be created nor can be destroyed, it only changes forms’ a compost pit allows young minds to observe how we give back to nature what we harvest from it.
The bigger picture The bigger perspective is that fostering environmental sustainability in school enables students to develop skills, empathy and motivation for actions that contribute to their own wellbeing, and that of their community and the planet, in an increasingly interconnected world. In a classroom, on day-to-day basis, sustainability enriches and strengthens students’ learning.
At PICT, we focus on our collective lens of what we think the purpose of environment sustainability really is: to foster thriving students, school and communities, so as to cultivate leaders that are prepared to troubleshoot challenges of the 21st Century.
