CREATIVE WAY OF TEACHING OUTDOORS
Introduction
The course is designed for teachers and trainers of all subjects, offering them effective tools to
improve creativity skills of their students as well as their own including outdoor education. School teachers and will acquire what it takes to become a successful cross-cultural reflective teacher to tackle „creativity” problems in order to create an atmosphere in which students like to learn, teachers like to teach and all like to work together.
Target audience
This course is aimed at teachers and school pedagogical staff from primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs education, kindergarten and all those who want to create more engaging units for their learners.
Methodology
Methodology is based on theoretical input, presentations of examples of good practice, outdoor wokshops, as well as demonstrations and experience comparisons and in the most part practical learning by doing approach.
Objectives
- Developing communication, collaboration, presentation, problem solving, negotiation, critical and creative thinking skills in outdoor practise.
- Providing and exercising creative ideas and practical resources for successful implementation in outdoor practise.
- Promoting intercultural awareness.
- Being conscious for well-being and learning, both at the individual and at the group level.
Sessions planned
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia (M hotel, Derčeva ulica 4)
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| Ljubljana with a castle |
Lake Bled |
Izola |
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| Postojna cave |
Mountains |
Mindful moment |
Dates:
- July 7 - 11, 2020,
- October 25 - 31, 2020,
- July 4 - 10, 2021,
- November 2 - 8, 2021.
Draft daily programme
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Creative Way of Teaching Outdoors
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1. Sunday
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Introduction of the programme
Warm-ups and ice-breakers
Introduction of participants, countries, schools
International cultural evening
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2. Monday
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Team building activities: Mindfulness in the outdoor education
Introduction to outdoor education
Sharing experiences of outdoor education
Presentation of the participants’ experiences, school settings
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3. Tuesday
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Creative Thinking (gamification, thinking out of the box)
Getting to know the beauties of Ljubljana, cultural evening
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4. Wednesday
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Mindfulness meditation and practice
NLP techniques and workshops
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5. Thursday
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Teambuilding and networking, non-formal activities with a cultural excursion and Mindfulness practice outdoors
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6. Friday
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Drama and theatre games outside
Online tools for collaboration in educational outdoor education,
eTwinning, School Education Gateway
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7. Saturday
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Presentation of outcomes
Further international collaboration opportunities
Evaluation and certification
Closing session
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Course fee: 490 EUR per participant
+ 110 EUR for social programme
* 22% VAT is included.
Language of the course
The course is held in English.
Number of participants: 20
Certificate
Each participant will get a course attendance certificate and the Europass Mobility Document.
About us (Team / Organizer)
Eduvision is an organization which main purpose is to train and educate teachers and educators in school settings (kindergartens, primary schools, secondar schools, high schools, universities). We connect experts, teachers and practitioners to share their knowledge, experience, innovations, good practices and new approaches to teaching at different international conferences and seminars.
In the past decade several international scientific and professional conferences were organized:
- EDUvision (Modern approaches to teaching the coming generation)
- Mindfulness (Be Mindful, Teach Mindfully, Teach Mindfulness)
- Infokomteh (Implementation and use of ICT in the classroom)
A great emphasis is put on training teachers and educators by the help od professional training courses on recognizing and learning different strategies of teaching the learning and behaviorally challenging children, special needs students such as autism, ADHD,... and last but not least authority problems.
Registration
Please, register not later then
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June 16, 2020 (for training course on July 5 - 11, 2020)
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September 25, 2020 (for training course on October 25 - 31, 2020)
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June 4, 2021 (for training course on July 4 - 10, 2021)
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September 30, 2021 (for training course on November 2 - 8, 2021).
Pre-registration is possible by e-mail info@eduvision.si.
Please, do not hesitate to obtain all information about registration and logistics by e-mail: info@eduvision.si