Topic(s) addressed
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Creativity and sustainability
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Space, greenery and environment.
Target groups
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Kindergarten teachers (primary target group)
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c.a. 300 children (secondary target group)
Methodologies
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Carrying out outdoor activities with children in different weather conditions
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Developing new teaching methods applicable in early childhood education
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Improving teachers’ language skills along with professional competencies
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Involving parents in outdoor activities
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eTwinning as a way of sharing experiences and knowledge
Environments
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Transferring learning activities outdoors- appreciation for the outdoor space in the education process
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planning, organising and carrying out various outdoor activities under every weather condition
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building outdoor equipment with natural and recyclable materials
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planting trees around the kindergarten
Teachers
To improve children’s motor skills teachers took responsibility for:
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developing physical and psychomotor tasks and activities
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constructing playground facilities using ecological and recyclable materials (with the participation of parents and children)
Teachers have:
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adapted and broadened their teaching methods
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raised their professional competencies
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significantly changed their curriculum.
Impact
Project activities contributed to the physical, mental and emotional development of the participants.
Teachers.
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have tested new ways of teaching.
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improved their competencies in many areas: language, digital, methodology, leadership etc.
Children:
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strengthened motor skills and coordination,
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enriched knowledge about the nature and our influence on it
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improved their social skills
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learnt how to adapt to new situations
- Reference
- 2018-1-HR01-KA101-047043
- Project locations
- 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