Outdoor Education

Learning in Authentic Life Contexts Enriched with Environmental SettingsLearning in Authentic Life Contexts Enriched with Environmental Settings

Duration: 5 days - 25 hours (flexible options available)
Location: Málaga (Spain) & Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Fee: ~~450€~~ 400€
Includes: Registration, materials, 2 cultural activities, certificate
Upcoming Dates:

08.09.2025 – 12.09.2025 – ✔confirmed
20.10.2025 – 24.10.2025 – ✔confirmed
16.02.2026 – 20.02.2026 – ✔confirmed
04.05.2026 – 08.05.2026 – ✔confirmed
06.07.2026 – 10.07.2026 – ✔confirmed
14.09.2026 – 18.09.2026 – ✔confirmed
23.11.2026 – 27.11.2026 – ✔confirmed

Outdoor Education

This course trains educators to use outdoor environments and sustainable practices to enhance learning, creativity, and environmental awareness through hands-on, zero-waste, and interdisciplinary methods.

Outdoor Education Course description

📘COURSE OVERVIEW

This teacher training course explores Outdoor Education as a dynamic and experiential learning approach, empowering educators to harness the outdoors to foster creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and student well-being. By using natural and urban settings as extended classrooms, teachers will gain practical tools to create engaging, interdisciplinary, and environmentally aware learning experiences.

Outdoor Education COURSE KEY POINT

🔍 What You’ll Learn

During this course, participants will discover:

Principles and benefits of outdoor education
How to design, manage, and evaluate effective outdoor learning
Tools and strategies to teach across subjects in outdoor environments
Practical routines, games, and resources for teaching outdoors
Environmental awareness, sustainability, and conservation education
Risk management, safety, and legal considerations in outdoor contexts

How to use outdoor learning to boost motivation, behavior, and academic results

Objectives of Outdoor Education Course for teachers

🎯OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course, participants will:

Understand the core concepts of Outdoor Education
Learn how to plan and facilitate outdoor activities aligned with curricula
Gain hands-on experience through immersive field activities
Explore methods to foster sustainability and environmental responsibility
Use outdoor spaces to promote collaboration, problem-solving, and reflection
Integrate outdoor education across disciplines
Develop and present an outdoor learning activity
Improve communication skills in a multicultural context
Enhance cooperation and exchange among European educators

Schedule for the Outdoor Education Course

📅SCHEDULE

🔵 Day 1 – Introduction to Outdoor Education
09:00–10:30 | Welcome, team building & introduction
10:30–11:30 | Outdoor Education principles
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–14:00 | Field activity: Town Safari

🟡 Day 2 – Outdoor Activities & Risk Management
09:00–10:30 | Designing outdoor activities
10:30–11:00 | Outdoor learning & risk assessment
11:00–11:30 | Legal & safety protocols
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Field activity: Urban/nature exploration
13:00–14:00 | Reflection on safety & planning

🔵 Day 3 – Curriculum Integration
09:00–10:30 | Teaching methods & materials
10:30–11:30 | Designing cross-curricular activities
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Developing lesson plans
13:00–14:00 | Field activity: Museum or historical site

🟡 Day 4 – Environmental Education & Sustainability
09:00–10:30 | Environmental awareness & sustainability
10:30–11:30 | Planning conservation projects
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Field activity: Impact studies
13:00–14:00 | Discussion: Sustainability in teaching

🔵 Day 5 – Implementation, Presentation & Evaluation
09:00–10:30 | Challenges in outdoor education
10:30–11:30 | Demo lesson design
11:30–12:00 | ☕ Break
12:00–13:00 | Lesson presentations & feedback
13:00–14:00 | Evaluation & certificate ceremony

Outdoor Education COURSE METHODOLOGY

🧠 Methodology

This course is based on experiential and reflective learning, designed to foster personal and professional growth in a supportive, nature-rich environment:

Experiential: Outdoor activities and hands-on workshops
Collaborative: Group tasks encouraging peer exchange and creativity
Reflective: Real-time feedback and discussions to connect theory with practice
Practical: Daily field visits that bring learning to life