Outdoors education for all!
ERASMUS+ KA1 for teachers and adult education professionals
Join us in a unique educational experience!
In a world that locks us more and more often between walls, we need to reconnect to nature. We should understand that we don’t need bricks around us during the learning process. Once man is in the heart of nature, he becomes more curious and his mind and soul become more able to absorb knowledge.
Main goal
To improve the teachers/ trainers’ skills to reconnect the teaching/ learning activities to the natural environment
Issues
Objectives
To understand the benefits of outdoors education
To understand the availability of nature in offering knowledge
To discover and use unconventional outdoors places for teaching/ learning activities (formal, non-formal, informal).
To use outdoors education existing strategies and create & apply new ones in a cross curricular perspective
To develop personal and social skills on the basis of outdoors pedagogy for regular educational system and for SEN
To create a personal/ school activity strategy in order to develop outdoors education
Target groups
Sessions
Session 2. Lisbon, Portugal, 16-20 July 2018. Pre-registration for 2017 round.
Programme
Day 1: Ice-breakers, know-each-other and team building exercises (outdoors activities)
Presentation of the schools/ organizations and the outdoors education experience of the participants (outdoors activities)
Exploring outdoors pedagogy; connections between outdoors education and the types of intelligences (Gardner; Danah and Marshall); Deci and Ryan self-determination theory and intrinsic motivation
Intercultural evening
Day 2: Exploring outdoors pedagogy - lecture and seminar about outdoors environmental education (benefic effect on health, its power to develop social and personal skills)
Workshop (part I) on teaching different subjects using the opportunities offered by the natural environment; planning, teaching, assessing. SEN: Occupational Therapy and Behavioral Activation Therapy
Day 3 in the local rural or urban landscape. Workshop (part II) on the way about teaching different subjects in the natural environment. .
Day 4 in the pure nature. Creative ideas to smoothly connect culture and nature. Outdoors learning techniques.
Day 5: Thematic creative day; toolbox (methods, instruments) for developing the teaching skills (different curriculum subjects), the personal and social skills
Evaluation of the course. Certification. Farewell outdoors dinner.
The participants' departure
Methodology
Some of our top trainers
Anca Vieriu
She is a the president of ARVIS, the course coordinator and has a large experience in formal and non-formal education. Anca's expertise covers outdoors education, active methodology in teaching, media education, communication. She is an experienced trainer on the Train the Trainers programmes.
Marius Cazacu
Miruna Maxim
Certification
Certificate of Attendance including description of training content and time input
Financial conditions
The course fee – according to Erasmus+ programme (70 euro/ day, 350 euro for a 5 days course)
You will be hosted in very elegants hotels, in perfect conditions, at a very good price, or you can make your own arrangements.
And...
Waiting for you!
Our training center: AR Vocational and Investment Solutions - ARVIS
PIC: 939931068
VAT: RO30844320
Email: arvissolutions@yahoo.com
Website: arvissolutions.com
Location: Strada Grigore Ureche, Suceava, Suceava County, Romania
Phone: +40747140131
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