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Learning outcome – objectives

The course Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture, and Art will help participants to:

• Integrate art into teaching to support students’ well-being.
• Plan and conduct lessons in urban environments.
• Combine learning beyond the classroom with “ordinary” classroom activities.
• Use activity approaches to foster motivation, creative thinking, and learning.
• Experience and implement activities in nature, applying various subjects.
• Design, plan, and share educational activities inspired by the environment.
• Understand the pedagogical and social benefits of learning beyond the classroom

Monday

• Introduction and presentation to the course beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture, and Art
• Icebreaker activities
• An out-door activity
• Welcome to a new European network; presentation from each participant (school / organization, culture, country – max 5 minutes)

Tuesday

• Introduction to a day at the museum with focus on art
• Bringing art into teaching and education by using a museum as space of possibilities
• Encountering and exploring professional visual art with students

Wednesday

We will travel together by ferry to the Island of Fanø

• Introduction to a day on Fanø with focus on Nature and art  – connection to the landscape  through sketching.
• How nature and landscape offer a space for teaching and interpretation
• Language, mathematics or aesthetics – observing personal experience with our environment
• A walk on Fanø with paper and pen – experiencing history and connection to the unique nature in the Wadden Sea (a UNESCO world heritage site)

Thursday

• Introduction to cross-curricular teaching through activities
  • Focus on how various activities in teaching can contribute to motivation, creative thinking, and learning
  • How can the outdoor environment be actively incorporated into the planning of activities and teaching?

Friday

• Reflection on new methodology focusing on beyond the Classroom: Exploring Nature, Culture, and Art, structures, new European network
• An outdoor activity
• Evaluation, feedback
• Presentation and distribution of “certificate of attendance”

What is included:

Number of lessons

• 25 lessons / 5 days

Price

• EURO 450
• including 2 x lunch
• ferry-ticket to the island of Fanø
• entrance to museum
• bus-transport (1 day to Esbjerg-location)
• Erasmus-documentation (“certificate of attendance”, signatures on learning agreement etc.)

Participants

• a minimum of 10 participants (and max 18)

In case of cancellation

• In case of cancellation 1 month before the start of the course 50% of the fee will be refunded.
  In case of cancellation less than 1 month before the start of the course the fee will not be refunded.
  In case of unforeseen circumstances the participants are expected to be covered by their own insurance.

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