Muurame
Senior High School has been several years highly qualified institute. This
means lot of development work day by
day. Our school has gained three times the certificate for promoting
sustainable development. Our school was the very first senior high school to achieve
this status. Today there are only 5 senior high school in Finland who has reached
this certificate.Certificate stands for quality.
Criteria
for sustainable development certificate :
1. PLANNING
Values – sustainable development is one of the main values
in our school and everybody is aware of these values. Briefing staff, students
and parents about these values
Legal requirements – school/staff knows the rules and
legal regulations of sustainable development
Organization and resources – school has an environmental team
and enough resources (skills, people, money, time etc.). School management
supports these activities
Sustainable development program – school has a development plan with
goals, timetables, staff and activities/actions. Students and teachers are
involved in planning
2. IMPLEMENTATION
Themes and implementation – annual themes in learning/coaching
and in school’s general policy
Networking – active role and tendency to find
new networks
Education and coaching – good knowledge on ecological,
cultural, social and economical environments. Thinking skills like critical
thinking, understanding of causality, evaluation and visions. New learning
environments like nature, experiences, social, mobile, technological and
cultural environments. Possibilities to engage and to be active. New learning methods
and pedagogy in coaching.
3. EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Systematic evaluation – school evaluates itself every year.
Neutral monitoring outside of the school every third year.
Development plan and report – A 3-year plan. Reporting to all
partners.
Next time we have this supervising in March 2014. So wish us luck for
this big challenge…
