Outdoor Education

Leave the confines of a classroom behind you and join our innovative course specially developed for teachers eager to transform their classes! 

We will show you how to make the most of your school and its surroundings, be it immediate or more distant,  and to change the educational process into a learning adventure. The suggested activities can be employed by teachers across subjects and educational levels, from kindergarten to secondary and vocational education. The course’s objective is to inspire teachers to look for new forms of planning and giving engaging lessons.

The course consists of two components.

The indoor sessions will give you the tools to leverage the school environment. Our activity-packed course centres around personal experience and self-reflection through a combination of physical, cognitive, and emotional elements. Thanks to the methods and teaching techniques taught at the sessions you will know how to transform your lessons into a learning expedition. This, in turn, will help you to enhance your students’ learning process, making it more productive and more lasting. There will also be enough time for participants to present their schools and the main activities they have developed there.  

The other component of the course focuses on various cultural activities, and includes exploring Poland’s former capital city - Kraków, visits to museums, art galleries, natural wonders such as the world-famous Wieliczka salt mine, and other places of interest.  Upon your request, the course can also encompass a visit to a memorial site from the Second World War – Auschwitz. 

The course adopts a contemporary approach to new learning scenarios, embracing multidisciplinary learning activities, both within the school premises,  and utilizing the abundant possibilities offered by nature. 

Your trainer, Barbara Legutko, is looking forward to welcoming you to Kraków.  

The schedule:

Day 1 

Participants arrival 

Individual orientation and information about the venue and the city 

Delivery of course documentation

Course introduction 

Presentation of participants’ institutions

Day 2 

Applications for learning outdoors

Visit to Sukiennice underground

Professions of the past 

Cultural heritage 

Healthy lifestyle 

Sustainable development 

Prevention of burnout 

Day 3 

Escape rooms in outdoor learning

Preparation of the learning materials

The pedagogical approach to the activity 

Reflections about the introduction of knowledge in the school curricula 

Day 4 

STEAM in outdoor education

Game based learning

Actionbound

Work with google lens 

Introduction of canva.com in the didactic process 

 

Day 5 

The pedagogical approach of the activities developed so far 

Publish results on etwinning 

Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities 

Course roundup and final evaluation 

Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony 

Participants departure