Outdoor and Environmental Education 1 - Middle Years

This course will enable students to teach outdoor education in a middle schooling setting. Through observation and engagement in middle years outdoor and environmental education, students will consider the scope of learner needs to conceptualize and research teaching strategies to maximize the effectiveness of teaching and learning outdoor education. Focusing on the domains of outdoor skills and knowledge, human-nature relationships, conservation, sustainability, health and wellbeing students will plan and teach sequential learning episodes that integrate curriculum areas such as Science, Humanities and Health and Physical Education and others. These episodes will enhance learning of personal and social capability, ethical and intercultural understanding; and address cross-curricular priorities of Aboriginal and This course willrres Strait Islander histories and culture as well as sustainable living. Students will then reflect and critically evaluate their curriculum planning, pedagogies and relationship with learners to maximize agency for deep learning about themselves, others and their environment.