Sustainability-oriented commercial vocational training makes a significant contribution to solving one of the biggest key social problems of our time. In particular, commercial traders have the opportunity to market sustainable products and services that will lead to a better quality of life in the future and even consume fewer resources in the process. With their professional role as consumer, mobility or trend shapers, they can have a decisive influence on a more sustainable future. For trainers, the task is to awaken a willingness in young people and to promote professional action skills that enable them to help shape the future. This guide offers a scientifically based and practical concept with numerous explanations, tasks, tips and checklists to support trainers in structurally integrating the principle of sustainability into vocational training. In particular, it shows which competencies trainees in the retail sector need in order to be able to work in a sustainability-oriented manner in their profession. In line with this, ten recommendations for the didactic-methodical design of teaching/learning processes are presented. This guide is suitable for anyone who wants to find out how the new standard vocational training position “environmental protection and sustainability” can be put into concrete terms in commercial training. It provides a toolkit that can be used to immediately bring about very concrete changes with regard to vocational training for sustainable development.weiterlesen