Learning through Landscapes: Lead Teacher in Outdoor Learning

‘A classroom is just a room – lessons don’t have to be taught there.’ This highly popular course in how best to take teaching into a new environment was developed 5 years ago after requests from teachers looking for more support than just a one day course. During the course you will: Meet together for…

Place-based Learning – Building a network?

Burrenbeo Trust, Place-based Learning Conference, Kinvara,  July 18th-20th 2013. Building on the success of the inaugural Learning Landscape Symposium Apathy to Empathy – reconnecting people with placein 2012, the Burrenbeo Trust are hosting an intimate networking event this year for place-based educators, teachers, parents and anyone with an interest in place-based learning and/or learning in the Burren. This event…

Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

Engineering Education for Sustainable Development EESD13 22-25 September 2013 Cambridge, UK Registration now open http://www-eesd13.eng.cam.ac.uk/   The Conference will explore how to develop the new skills needed by engineers so they can be more effective in dealing with messy problems in an increasingly complex and constrained world. A key theme will also be to reflect…

Take Part: OPAL Tree Health Survey

There are three steps to taking part in this investigation into the health of the nation’s trees: 1) Download and print the survey 2) Find a site with safe access to one or more broadleaved trees and start surveying. 3) Tell OPAL what you find! That’s it! An easy way to help improve the nation’s…