Outdoor learning and experiential education
About this course
Children and young people learn best when they can see, touch, explore and experience things for themselves. This outdoor learning course shows you how to take learning beyond the classroom walls and use nature, the school grounds and the local environment as powerful spaces for teaching any subject. From pre-primary to secondary, you will discover how learning by doing can boost motivation, curiosity, cooperation and wellbeing, while still meeting curriculum goals.
Over five days, you will explore the principles of experiential education and the learning cycle of doing, reflecting and applying. Many sessions take place outdoors, so you will experience the activities yourself before adapting them to your students. You will try nature-based games, hands-on challenges, team-building activities and outdoor projects linked to subjects such as science, maths, language and art. You will also learn how to plan outdoor sessions safely, manage groups outside the classroom, adapt activities to different ages and weather conditions, and guide meaningful reflection so that experiences turn into real learning.
By the end of the week, you will have designed and tried out your own outdoor lesson for your subject and age group, and created a plan to make outdoor and experiential learning a regular part of your teaching.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Integrate outdoor and experiential learning into their regular teaching.
- Evaluate the learning value and safety of outdoor activities and adapt them when needed.
- Make creative use of school grounds and local spaces as learning environments.
- Share outdoor learning practices with colleagues and encourage their school to use outdoor spaces.
- Design outdoor lessons with clear learning goals for their subject and age group.
- Use nature-based games, hands-on challenges and team-building activities with students.
- Apply simple strategies to manage groups safely and effectively outside the classroom.
- Guide reflection after activities so that students connect experiences with learning.
- Adapt outdoor activities to different ages, spaces, resources and weather conditions.
- Understand what outdoor learning and experiential education are and why they help students learn.
- Identify the benefits of learning outside for motivation, wellbeing, cooperation and understanding.
- Recognise the steps of learning by experience: doing, reflecting and applying what has been learned.
- Explain how outdoor activities can be linked to curriculum goals in different subjects.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
*Please check our Terms & Conditions for details of the items included in the Coffee Corner.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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