Outdoor Learning Course
Outdoor Education Course for teachers
Outdoor Education Course description
DESCRIPTION
This teacher training course explores Outdoor Education as a dynamic and experiential approach to learning, fostering engagement through real-world experiences. Participants will discover how to integrate outdoor environments into their teaching practice to enhance student learning, creativity, problem-solving, and well-being. The course emphasizes environmental awareness, active learning strategies, and interdisciplinary connections, equipping educators with practical tools to implement outdoor-based methodologies effectively.
Objectives of Outdoor Education Course for teachers
OBJECTIVES
- Understand the principles and benefits of outdoor education
- Learn how to design and facilitate authentic learning experiences in natural and urban outdoor settings.
- Gain practical skills to teach outdoors (routines, games, resources)
- Learn to plan, execute, and assess outdoor educational activities
- Gain practical insights into safety, logistics, and risk management in outdoor learning environments.
- Explore strategies to incorporate environmental awareness and sustainability into lessons.
- Reinforce the bond, responsibility and appreciation for the natural environment
- Utilize outdoor settings to improve student motivation, behavior, and academic performance
- Integrate outdoor education into various subjects and curricula by promote interdisciplinary learning
- Incorporate modern technology to enhance outdoor learning experiences
- Exchange ideas, experiences, materials and cross-cultural practices between colleagues
- Improve language and communication skills
- Increase international cooperation and intercultural awareness
Schedule for the Outdoor Education Course
SCHEDULE
Day 1: Introduction to Outdoor Education (5 hours)
- Getting to Know Each Other – Team Building Activities
- Course Introduction
- Challenges & Hopes About the Course
- Teacher, School, Country Presentations
- Introduction to Outdoor Education
- Field Activity: Town Safari
Day 2: Outdoor activities and Risk Management (5 hours)
- Designing Effective Outdoor Activities
- Planning for Outdoor Learning
- Safety and Risk Assessment in Outdoor Settings
- Legal Considerations
- Field Activity: Urban / Nature
Day 3: Curriculum Integration (5 hours)
- Teaching Methods and Materials for Outdoor Education
- Planning for Outdoor Learning
- Designing Cross-curricular Outdoor Activities
- Developing Outdoor Lesson Plan
- Field Activity: Museum / History
Day 4: Environmental Education (5 hours)
- Environmental Awareness and Sustainability
- Incorporating Sustainability into Lessons
- Planning Conservation Projects
- Field Activity: Environmental Impact Studies
Day 5: Implementation and evaluation (5 hours)
- Challenges and Barriers in Outdoor Education
- Demo Lesson: Design Your Own Outdoor Lesson Plan
- Demo Lesson Presentations & Feedbacks
- Course Overview & Evaluation
- Certificates Ceremony
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- DURATION
5 days – 25 hours
* Please contact us for 7, 10, 14, 21 days courses!
- FEE
* Materials, certificates and cultural activities included!
- SESSIONS
*Other course days are available, please ask for specific dates.
- MÁLAGA, SP
10.03.2025 – 14.03.2025 – confirmed
12.05.2025 – 16.05.2025 – confirmed
07.07.2025 – 11.07.2025 – confirmed
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
- AMSTERDAM, NL
Dates to be confirmed
* Our teacher training courses can fully be funded by Erasmus+ program.
* Please contact us for all inclusive options or specific services depending on your needs and preferences.
- LOCATION
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