Effective Teaching and Activities of Excellent Teachers for the Sustainable Development of Higher Design Education

• Published in: Sustainability Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 28
• Main Authors: Lai, Yi-Chen, Peng, Li-Hsun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Competitiveness; Cooperative learning; Creativity; Curricula; Design; Education; Environmental education; Environmental impact; Higher education; Interdisciplinary aspects; Learning; Literature reviews; Mapping; Quality; Questionnaires; Skills; Social responsibility; Society; Student retention; Sustainability; Sustainability management; Sustainable development; Teachers; Teaching methods
• ISSN: 2071-1050; 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su12010028

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is regarded as a key element of high-quality education. Hence, the United Nations proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, in an attempt to achieve the harmony and shared prosperity between humans and the Earth, and advocate for fair and high-quality education. With the aim of exploring “high-quality sustainable teaching”, this study intends to probe into the idea and meaning of the high-quality design education for sustainable development and elaborate on the teaching effectiveness and sustainable teaching activities by the teachers of higher design education. According to the research results, the effectiveness of high-quality teaching is introduced in seven categories, as follows: (1) Faith in sustainability in teaching, (2) the trend of talent demand, (3) the teaching value of sustainability, (4) curriculum mapping, (5) teaching approach, (6) teaching evaluation, (7) the sustainable management of teaching development. The factors of high-quality teaching include: The teacher has passion for teaching, the teacher pays attention to the student’s independent learning ability, the teacher intrigues student’s interest in learning, the teacher places emphasis on furnishing the student with professionalism and confidence, the teacher highlights learning through doing to increase the student’s competitiveness in the job fair, the teacher reviews teaching effectiveness and makes progress in pursuing the value of high-quality ESD.