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<< Background >>During the COVID pandemic many children's needs related with their learning process were forgotten due to the necessity of transforming normal in-person classes to online lessons, where the traditional method of teaching was imposed due to the lack of resources and tools, but also to the lack of other innovative pedagogies. This project addresses the needs for schools to focus on the multiple intelligences of children, learning how to create more active classrooms but using outdoor spaces, in which children have more freedom, but also allows the distances and the space necessary to assure the distance needed during the COVID-19 situation. Furthermore, active and green pedagogies place children at the centre of the education and learning process, taking care of their feelings and creating a more fluid communication that can be also used in virtual scenarios. Not only that, but these active and green pedagogies give the change to children to interact with a different classroom space, helping them develop Key competences at a different pace and integrating all the children in the different learning processes.In this case, the needs are closely related to some of the Erasmus+ priorities, that focus on the inclusion of children in the educational teaching methods, focusing on the diversity of learning processes and creating different learning spaces, scenarios and activities that will allow children to be included in the classroom. In order to do that, it is necessary to support the professional development of teachers, guiding them on how to implement this, following the requirements and the pedagogical plan of the school, as not all the teachers have been graduated from the same universities, neither have taken the same optional classes or trainings, nor the graduation period was the same for everybody having the same instruction about innovative pedagogies.<< Objectives >>GENERAL OBJECTIVE- GO1: Create inclusive schools to allow the equal learning of children having into account multiple intelligences.This is the general objective of the project that can be obtained by implementing active and green pedagogies with outdoor learning, creating a paradigm shift from traditional pedagogies. By creating different learning methods, using diverse activities and environments and allowing children to interact with their emotions it is possible to open the learning opportunities of all the children.To reach the general objective, the following specific objectives have been defined:SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES- SO1: Implement outdoor learning through active and green pedagogies in primary schools.In order to create more inclusive schools focused on multiple intelligences, there must be a change of traditional pedagogies to other types that have into account the complex learning process, Therefore, one specific objective to achieve this is to introduce active and green pedagogies in outdoor learning in primary conventional schools, focusing on children's needs and emotions and offering children the option for practicing different intelligences.- SO2: Support the professional development of teachers, educators and facilitatorsFor implementing active and green pedagogies, teachers need to be trained to understand what needs to be done and how. Through the project, there will be a special emphasis on guiding and accompanying teachers in the process of learning how to implement these pedagogies to improve the development of innovative teaching methods.- SO3: Improve the relation between children and environmentWhile including green pedagogies and outdoor learning in the schools children will be more in contact with nature, understanding its importance and the natural relationship with human beings. When understanding and being in contact with their environment, children will learn to take care of it and acquire practices that will support the climate change fight.<< Implementation >>In this project there are a total of three learning, teaching, training activities. These activities have as main target the associated partners staff working as teachers, educators and facilitators in the educational sector.The activity C1, called “Rethinking our classroom” and the activity C2, titled “Rethinking our learning spaces” have a main goal to support the professional development of teachers, contributing to expand their knowledge on active and green pedagogies, but also focusing on their concern on how to support children emotionally. These two activities will be based on the Project Result 1, based on the introduction and academical point of view for including active and green pedagogies, but it will also give the chance to the partnership to visit the schools that participate in the project and brainstorm, discuss and suggest how outdoor learning can be implemented in the school with the current resources.Regarding the third activity, C3 named “Real experience of outdoor learning”, the staff of the associated organisations will be able to visit an outdoor learning school that is part of the association, having a real example on how this is part of the daily teaching pedagogies of the teachers that work in this school, and how children are being evaluated,as well as understanding much better outdoor learning. Moreover, they will have the opportunity to discuss with the teacher of the outdoor school how they work, how they plan their classes, what type of resources they have or need, what are the essentials or basic elements to introduce outdoor learning in the classroom, etc.<< Results >>Within this project there are two project results (PR). The first one is the basis of the project and the start for teachers to understand how to implement outdoor learning through active and green pedagogies, with an emphasis on the emotional support of children. This PR1 will be published in the form of an e-book, to allow the access for the teachers interested in learning more about active and green pedagogies.Then, the project moves to a second phase, once the teachers know the theory, have participated in the c1 % c2 and have solved the doubts and questions that may have arised. Now, it is the time to put into practice what has been learned and move forward with the implementation of active and green pedagogies. The PR2 will focus on how to do it, in which the experts will give tips and advice to teachers, creating a short guide on how to create didactic units with outdoor education. Moreover, this output will include real didactic units created by the schools participating in the project, with different contexts and resources, to show as example that this can be done in diverse scenarios and situations and as a toolkit for other educators.Apart from this, the project will also create a project website, social networks in which the different partners will share the development of the project, lessons learnt, results and advice.
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