Outdoor Education to promote environmental and social inclusion values
Engage in outdoor education activities to personally experience and learn methods for teaching the importance of preserving nature and its biodiversity. This course is based on the approaches that latest scientific research indicates to be efficient in environmental education.
We will guide you in discovering, through hands-on experience, diverse methods of outdoor education aimed at fostering environmentally and socially sustainable and responsible behaviors.
You will visit two organisations with expertise spanning 25-30 years in garden-based learning, permaculture and sustainable farming targeted to learners with fewer opportunities as well as to the broader public of all age groups.
Competences to be acquired:
Methodology:
Our focus is on showing the participants how the learners’ motivation increases when they become the actors of their own learning because the teacher takes the role of facilitator or learning guide.
Energizers, games and group reflections are foreseen daily in order to ensure a positive energy and a cooperative learning climate in the group.
We tailor our working methods based upon the participants‘ needs and professional profiles in order to ensure easier adaptability and application of the tools to the real life.
We will take care of you:
- Support and Emergency Helpline Whatsapp group with all participants for easy communication and interaction between each other.
- Useful pdf presentation with the most important information about food, transportation and places to visit in Tenerife.
- Free afternoons to explore beauty of Tenerife.
- Visit to Teide National Park – optional.
- No requirements for accommodation, you can choose whatever you want (in the city where the course takes place).
After the course:
- Teaching materials in pdf to use in your classes afterwards.
- Photos for dissemination.
- The certificate of attendance and support with all documents needed.
