Sustainability

What does'sustainability' mean to me?

Sustainabilityhas become a big issue over the past years. It all has to do with life, environment, ecology and future-oriented thinking.

Besides the fact that we want to earn money and want to enjoy prosperity, it is also our job to look after the people and protect the environment. Now we have a responsibility to the next generation. Example, the consumption of fossil fuels, global warming, CO2 emissions. If we do not do something about this, it will cause big problems for the next generation(s).

 Conclusion: Sustainability takes into account the current global situation and what people of this generation need, but more imoprtantly it look at how these needs can be fulfilled without putting the environment, the economy of the future generations at risk.

Words of the session

 Progression:
If i look it up in a dictionary, it says that progression means 'improvement'. It's very important that we make progression in our work as a teacher. Our goal is that we promote the development of the pupils. To achieve this, you sometimes have to insert moments in your lessons and afterwards, where you reflect about the lesson and the improvements you want to achieve. It is also a reflection moment for yourself. If you do this, you can see your positive and negative points. Then you can also see your progression in your mission as a good teacher.

Curriculum:
Curriculum is a kind of plan. Not a normal plan , but a plan to learn something.  In Belgium we call it a learning plan. This learning plan is based on goals and includes the important things that have to be learned. For example to teaching pupils.

Life cycles:
A life cycle is, generally, considered to be the essential stages that a living being moves through from the beginning of their life to the end of it. Unfortunately, when it comes to human beings, there is no universally agreed upon way of defining the number of stages or their exact timing. Nonetheless, by taking an inclusive view, the life cycle of person can broken into five major stages: prenatal, child, adolescence, adult and death.