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European Innovative Teaching Award
Project

Outdoor learning

School: Kindergarten Osijek

Topic(s) addressed

  • Creativity and sustainability 

  • Space, greenery and environment.

Target groups

  • Kindergarten teachers (primary target group)

  • c.a. 300 children (secondary target group)

Methodologies

  • Carrying out outdoor activities with children in different weather conditions 

  • Developing new teaching methods applicable in early childhood education

  • Improving teachers’ language skills along with professional competencies

  • Involving parents in outdoor activities

  • eTwinning as a way of sharing experiences and knowledge

Environments

  • Transferring learning activities outdoors- appreciation for the outdoor space in the education process

  • planning, organising and carrying out various outdoor activities under every weather condition

  • building outdoor equipment with natural and recyclable materials

  • planting trees around the kindergarten

Teachers

To improve children’s motor skills teachers took responsibility for:

  • developing physical and psychomotor tasks and activities

  • constructing playground facilities using ecological and recyclable materials (with the participation of parents and children) 

Teachers have: 

  • adapted and broadened their teaching methods

  • raised their professional competencies

  • significantly changed their curriculum.

Impact

Project activities contributed to the physical, mental and emotional development of the participants. 

Teachers.

  • have tested new ways of teaching.

  • improved their competencies in many areas: language, digital, methodology, leadership etc.

Children:

  • strengthened motor skills and coordination, 

  • enriched knowledge about the nature and our influence on it

  • improved their social skills

  • learnt how to adapt to new situations

Outdoor learning - Croatia
Project category
Early childhood education and care
Project year
2022

Stakeholders

Coordinators

Kindergarten Osijek

Address
Croatia

Outdoored, s.r.o

Address
Czechia

Suomen ympäristöopisto SYKLI oy

Address
Finland

Istituto per la Formazione, l'Occupazione e la Mobilità

Address
Italy