Basic Training of Trainers in Outdoor Education, March 2013

Contribution: 380 Euro - includes the program, the special equipment, accommodation and food, the trainer and the exam fee.
Working language: English

Venue: Sovata/Szováta

Type of certification of attendance awarded:
1) Certificate of attendance
2) Accredited certificate as adult educator

Target audience:
Teachers(Pre-school, primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
Teacher trainers
Careers officers, educational guides and counselors
Headteachers/principals/managers of schools/organisations offering adult education
Other (Paid or voluntary) management staff in the institution/organisation
Other, namely: social workers, human ressource experts

Objectives
The main objective of the 9 day training is to form trainers focusing on experiential outdoor training techniques and to explore and share experience and build skills in the field of adult education.

Specific learning goals:
What is outdoor education?
Why outdoor education?
Outdoor education principles
Models in outdoor education
Planning an outdoor course
Risk and safety management
Facilitation

Practical Sessions:
Problem solving exercises
Expedition - a tool of learning
To plan, to run and to evaluate an outdoor activity

Ropes work:
Knots
Belaying school
Building low Ropes Course elements
Climbing, abseiling
Ropes Course as training tool

Methodology
Concerning the method used in the training, Outward Bound offers course participants the opportunity to actively explore themselves and their relations with others. At the heart of this process is ‘experiential education’ or learning by doing. At Outward Bound, as in our daily lives, changes in behavior and in understanding occur as a result of the practical experience of coping with real-life situations or problems. This is a learning process which engages the whole of the learner’s person - intellectually, emotionally, as well as physically. Our outdoor activities are unique and exciting. But we believe that it's not enough to merely be active together as a group: in order for real learning to take place, action needs to be grounded in reflection. We don’t do any outdoor activities just for the 'kick' reflection are channeled back into action. The experiential learning cycle we used during the whole training is based on plan-do-review.
For theoretical inputs we use two methods: the inductive and the deductive way. In some cases theoretical models are presented first and the experiences are reviewed with the help of these models, in other cases models are deducted from the experience itself. In the third part of the training participants organize scenarios and through meta-reflection sessions they get feedback both from their colleagues and the trainers.Program of the training activities day by day:
1st day
Arrival
2nd day
Getting to know each other activities
Fears and expectations
Course program and objectives
Course contract
Outward Bound history
Theoretical input (Models used in outdoor education)
Teambuilding activities
Preparation for the expedition
3rd -5th day
Outdoor Expedition
Theoretical inputs
Evaluation of the expedition
6th day
Theoretical input (Experiential learning in outdoor setting)
Low ropes elements as learning tools (theory and practice)
7th day
Theoretical input (Debriefing outdoor experiential learning programs)
High Ropes elements as learning tools (theory and practice)
Local cultural night in the Salt mine from Praid/Parajd
8th day
Theoretical input (outdoor training program design)
Scenarios (participants design, deliver and debrief outdoor activities)
Feedback round after each scenario
Intercultural dinner
9th day
Scenarios (participants design, deliver and debrief outdoor activities)
Feedback round after each scenario
10th day
Outdoor trainer’s skills assessment
Personal development action plan
Final evaluation
Preparation for the exam
11th day
Trainer Exam
Departures

Contact person: Horváth-Kovács Ádám, tel:+40-365-407 673, fax +40-265-250 939, mobil: +40-740-682 398, mail: office[at]outdoortraining.ro