If you are a new teacher or inexperienced in using the outdoors to teach curriculum content, then this webinar will provide you with guidance to take that first step
Starting out with curriculum based outdoor learning. How to use outdoor learning to teach curriculum content
If you are a new teacher or inexperienced in using the outdoors to teach curriculum content, then this webinar will provide you with guidance to take that first step. How to start your journey in using outdoor learning to teach curriculum content. Tricks and tips to make outdoor learning a natural part of your teaching. Ideas to embed outdoor learning into all subject teaching including ideas to take straight back to school. Logistics of learning outdoors such as teaching strategies, transitioning in and out, barriers to getting out and overcoming them, risk and confidence building. Ideas will be useful for all curriculums and cover a range of subjects and year groups from early years to secondary. Also an introduction to how the newly renamed Curriculum Based Outdoor Learning and Field Studies Professional Practice Group can support you and links to resources.
Aimed at: Aimed at teachers who want support in using more outdoor learning in their teaching
Host: Dawn Thomas and Anna Thomas
Dawn Thomas founder of Nature Days a field studies provider and curriculum based outdoor learning specialist. Working in curriculum based outdoor learning for nearly 20 years in Wales. Developer and provider of teacher training on outdoor learning in the Curriculum for
Wales. Dawn provides Field studies for schools in Gower South Wales and teacher training all over Wales.
Anna Thompson is the Education and Learning Manager for Nene Park Trust in Cambridgeshire. She is a qualified teacher and has over 20 years experience working in Field Studies and Curriculum Based Outdoor Learning. Anna is passionate in her belief that (almost) all of the curriculum can be taught outdoors, and has developed teaching programmes delivering subjects such as maths, art and literacy in an outdoor environment. Today Anna leads a team who deliver outdoor learning experiences for EYFS to A level, as well as delivering training courses for teachers who are keen to take their teaching outdoors.