Values and Competency Based Outdoor Learning for Sustainability

This course is part of the Outdoor Learning Series for teachers and outdoor educators being delivered by FSC, three courses providing insights into different aspects of outdoor learning, all taking place at inspiring locations in Scotland.The main objective for this course is to stimulate reflection, discussion and innovation toward values and competency based learning for a sustainable future. Through practical hands-on activities we will explore and reflect on our values as a basis for teaching and learning in the outdoors. We will share and evaluate current best practices that support and develop core values and competencies for sustainability. We will explore how these competencies are connected to green careers. As a result, you will leave with new ideas for the implementation and delivery of values and competency based outdoor learning.

What do we value in life? What will the future look like? How much depends on us? What are the models that provide hope for a sustainable future?

We cannot predict the future, it is uncertain, but we know that it depends on us and how we can prepare young people for new challenges. We need to ask ourselves and younger generations what sort of future we would like to live in and how this future can be made reality.

The main objective for this course is to stimulate reflection, discussion and innovation toward values and competency based learning for a sustainable future. Through practical hands-on activities we will explore and reflect on our values as a basis for teaching and learning in the outdoors. We will share and evaluate current best practices that support and develop core values and competencies for sustainability. We will explore how these competencies are connected to green careers. As a result, you will leave with new ideas for the implementation and delivery of values and competency based outdoor learning.

This course is for all teachers and people involve in delivering school education. Values and sustainability have a strong connection with all science subjects, Geography, Business and Economics. The course will be relevant for both Primary and Secondary education.

Specifically the course aims to:

• explore and reflect on values as a basis for teaching and learning in the outdoors.
• explore and reflect on green career competencies and their place in outdoor learning.
• share and evaluate current best practice in values and competency based learning for sustainability outdoors.
• experience and reflect upon experiential, student led and formal outdoor learning activities that support and develop core values and competencies for sustainability.
• explore participation in developing pedagogies for outdoor learning.
• explore how outdoor learning can improve competency based learning.
• generate new ideas for the implementation and delivery of values and competency based outdoor learning.

The main methodology of the study visit is workshop-based.

• site visits.
• presentations from each participant.
• observation/participation of learning activities outside the classroom.
• informal exchange between professionals from different countries.
• reflection and evaluation.
• planning for the future.

Sunday 28 February to Saturday 05 March

For more details and to apply visit us here.