Business Sustainability Business Curriculam

Question: Discuss about the Business Sustainability for Business Curriculam. Answer: Introduction: The aim of the paper is to plan an effective strategy used for teaching children at the basic learning level and at the primary level as well. The paper is divided into Part A and Part B. The first part narrates the design and the description of the new and innovative resource to be used for teaching and the second part is the learning plan that evaluates the rationale and the usefulness of the teaching plan. There has been increasing awareness about the importance of sustainability and how an individual might contribute towards a sustainable environment (Stewart, 2014). It is also important to teach the children at early childhood and primary level about sustainability and how they can contribute towards a better environment. The idea of the teaching resource is a book. The main theme of the book is to create awareness among the children on how they shall be able to handle various situations in life. As stated by Dahl, (2015), that life is dynamic and a person can be faced with any kind of situation. In case of children, it becomes very challenging for them to react at a particular situation. In addition to this, it can be said that in the recent time, World has witnessed several such situation where people remained in dilemma about their reaction. Increasing sustainability issues, environmental degradation, reducing availability of resources and other such factors have become vital issues that need to be combated (Remington-Doucette et al., 2013). Therefore, it is important to include teachings related to these topics among the children at a primary level or below primary level. Part A: Design and description of a teaching resource Drawing of the resource: Materials used: The idea of the resource is a book. It is proposed that the book might be made of cardboard that shall provide durability to the product. The content of the book will be written with printed ink. There shall be pictures and images to narrate the incident clearly and make the lessons more acceptable among the children (Fergus, Twigge-Molecey Mcguffin-Cawley, 2013). Apart from the proposed idea of a cardboard book, the same concept might be applied in the form of e-books as well. E-books shall be more technologically advanced and there shall be the option of increasing the storage memory as well and thus, there will be more option of teaching among the teachers (Johnston, 2013). However, it is important to teach children using a physical book rather than using a virtual platform. Since, the concept is to make children aware of the upcoming situation, it is important to leave certain things for imagination to the children that they shall be able to react efficiently on the situation. Instruction for teachers: The main objective of the proposed book is to make the Children aware about the circumstances and how exactly they shall react to combat the situation if they are faced with any kind of situation. It is important to teach children about the importance of sustainability of environment and that each child is responsible to participate in the betterment of the environment (hman, 2016). It is instructed to the teachers, to tell about the importance of sustainability to the students. The next thing is to make them come across a number of situations that the children are expected to face in their regular activities. Some examples of the situations are: What if they find someone throwing plastic wrapper on the road? What shall be the approach of a child if it sees a dog or a cat in trouble? What shall a child do if it comes across a situation where it observes that a person is not utilizing the resources like water or fuel in a correct way? The responses of the children are noted and it is based on the response, further teaching techniques shall be adopted to engage the children in future activities and make them aware about the instances that they shall undertake if they are faced with any kind of situation. After a number of classes, a test can be taken that will tell about the response and the intensity of the learning of the children. The teachers are expected to be very friendly and opened up with the students at the time of teaching them because that shall create ease among the children that they shall be free to ask and clear any doubt from the teacher (Williams Brown, 2013). Moreover, it has to be noted that the children also wanted to share something with their teacher or mentors. Therefore, it is also instructed that the teacher should make focus on such aspect as well. For the students at the primary level, more serious approach can be made towards the teaching technique of the children. Serious issues like safety on roads or while handling equipment or other appliances at home and other such issues that might hinder the sustainability of the environment (Wiek et al., 2014). It is also expected that the teacher shall narrate a number of real life examples and some or situations that might have recently happened. This approach shall make everything clear to the students and whatever is taught to them and they shall be able to relate the lesson easily. Part B: Learning plan For early childhood: At the early age children has to be made aware of the fundamental principles of life that includes manner and disciplines and the way they can contribute towards a better society and environment. Therefore, the series of books meant for the children at the early childhood shall include stories and descriptions related to table manners, things they should follow when they visit others house (Blewitt Cullingford, 2013). At the same time, they shall be taught the ways of approaching and act at the situations when something reliable do not seem to happen. For Primary aged children: When the children reach the primary level, they develop a good level of knowledge and understanding. Reading McLaren, (2015), it has been known that children who attend the age of 9 years develop the basic understanding of particular situation and if they are guided properly, they might be able to handle the situation well. The aim of the education is to make these children aware and capable to react on any kind of situation that they have to face at any point of their regular life activities. Rationale of the plan: The main issue of the education system is that the primary focus made is to teach the students more about the subjects and less about the actual life activities. However, it is very vital to teach children the basic things necessary to deal in life. Early age of education is the primary stage when children can be taught about the things that are necessary for an individual to follow in their life (Senge et al., 2012). The things that are taught to the children at the primary level are expected to create good impact in their future. The teaching technique used at the primary level of education is not appropriate enough to make the children capable of handling any kind of diverse situation or to fight against certain challenges (Sund hman, 2014). Therefore, when the children are made to come across certain expected situation and they are taught the things that shall help them to react appropriately on the particular situation then this type of teaching shall be more fruitful. The issue of dealing appropriately with situation is gaining importance in the recent scenario because of the increasing malpractices and other incidents that has created terror and alarming situation in the society (Sidiropoulos, 2014). The issues related to environmental changes like increasing pollution or global warming are increasing at an alarming rate and these problems and issues needs to be focused in order to combat with the degrading situation. The aim of the proposed teaching resource is to create awareness among the children about the environment safety as well as for other situation that are important for a person to react at any situation. The proposed book is made up of sustainable resources that will not cause any harm to the environment. Another approach that has been made about e-book is another good option that shall retain sustainability of the environment (Wright Horst, 2013). However, as mentioned previously e-book might not be much effective for the fact that it shall not create that imaginative framework among the learners. Links to education for sustainability: Several approaches have been made to include it in the education system about the approaches that one should make in order to participate in the sustainability of environment. The effectiveness of the approach might be high among the students at the secondary learning level but it might not be effective among the children. As stated by Yarime et al. (2012) each and every person has equal participation level for the society or the environment. Moreover, if children are raised properly by teaching them appropriately and making them aware about the importance of sustainability and how each person can be responsible to keep the sustainability of the environment intact. Objectives of the plan: The objective of the proposed plan can be set by the means of a SMART framework. Specific: The plan is to teach the children at early primary and primary level to create awareness among them about the sustainability of environment. They should be taught on how exactly to react on a particular situation when they are faced with any such situation in their regular life activities (Hesselbarth Schaltegger, 2014). Measurable: The success of the plan can be measured if a pseudo situation is created to acknowledge the success of the plan and how well the children have adapted the teaching. It can be easily known by the way the children will react on the situation. Attainable: The objective is easily achievable if the schools devote at least two classes a week on the teaching lessons to teach the children about the importance of sustainability and thus, by the end of the course, the objective can be achieved easily (Wright Horst, 2013). Relevant: The plan is relevant because teaching students at their primary level of education about the importance of sustainability of environment and their contribution towards making the environment more sustainable. Timely: The objective can be achieved easily within the specified time. Since, it will be a continuous training program the objective can be achieved by the time the children will receive their elementary education. Teaching strategies: The teaching strategy of the proposed plan is that like classes where other subjects are taught, in the same way the children shall be taught about the life lessons and other sustainability approaches from their end. Primarily, regular classes will be taken where the children will be taught the lessons. The teacher is expected to demonstrate various situations to the children by the means of creating a dramatic or a pseudo situation (Senge et al., 2012). It is further recommended that once a month the development and the understanding of the children can be measured by checking the progress of these children in terms of their response towards a particular situation. Conclusion: The innovative and sustainable approach that has been discussed to make children at the primary and early childhood level shall be beneficial enough for the environment as well as the society. The resource selected for the teaching purpose is a product that is made of environment friendly products and therefore is sustainable. The teaching procedure is also based on the sustainability approach made towards the society. It has to be understood that the children are the future of the society and if they are taught in the right direction then the chances of a better environmental situation is high. Moreover, if the children are taught in a dramatic way, the level of understanding increases. Therefore, the guidelines that have been suggested shall be fruitful if they are implemented in a correct way. Reference list: Blewitt, J., Cullingford, C. (2013).The sustainability curriculum: the challenge for higher education. Earthscan. Dahl, A. L. (2015). 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