Training

The Chilean quest for introducing outdoor learning and play in early childhood education

ECO updates and news, Environment and Design, Guest post, Training / 1 Comment / By / May 20, 2021

With this week’s post, we are excited to announce the official launch of our new Early Childhood Outdoors Vimeo channel!  Over the coming year, we hope to add visual material so that we have a lively companion for this more word-oriented blog, for celebrating, sharing and motivating across the ECO meshwork.  We are especially looking …

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Supporting and enthusing early years students to harness the learning opportunities of the outdoors with our littlest people

Guest post, Training / Leave a Comment / By / February 11, 2021

Early Childhood Outdoors seeks to support development, delivery and usefulness of qualifications & training in working with young children outdoors.  If we are to achieve our vision of meeting every child’s right to be, play and learn outdoors in education settings, this must include initial qualifications as well as continuing professional development. So it’s good …

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Why did I set up the Outdoor Teacher?

Guest post, Resources, Training / Leave a Comment / By / November 26, 2020

It’s always exciting when a new collaboration comes about that joins up more of the people and organisations who share the mission of enabling young children to have more frequent, longer and richer experiences in and with the outdoors – just what Early Childhood Outdoors is about! In August, Marina Robb, advocate for the integration …

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Woodwork: Exercising the imagination

Book Recommendations, Guest post, Training / 1 Comment / By / November 12, 2020

One of the silver linings emerging as we have been adjusting to many months of pandemic restrictions is that so much training has been made available digitally, becoming more accessible and cheaper than ever before.  But as Kathy Brodie counsels in this month’s Nursery World, “The online marketplace [for training] has exploded.. which is fantastic …

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Wellbeing: the self, other, our mental health and nature

Guest post, Therapeutic work with the outdoors, Training / Leave a Comment / By / September 4, 2020

A strand of work for Early Childhood Outdoors that is currently making great progress is that of supporting and promoting the range of training opportunities providing the kind of personal and setting development practitioners are looking for.  There is a need for training that helps us give children more time and wider experiences outdoors, and …

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Would you like to pilot a new (free) online course on Physical Development?

Guest post, Training / Leave a Comment / By / September 4, 2020

An important strand of work for Early Childhood Outdoors is to support and share developments in good quality training opportunities at all levels, so that practitioners can enhance their understanding and practice across relevant areas and along a continuum of levels.  Freedom, stimulus and possibility for moving and being physical is of course one of …

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Stoke Goes Out!

Guest post, Training / Leave a Comment / By / September 17, 2020

The immediate locality around the nursery is a remarkable resource that is unfortunately rarely tapped by most early years settings – even though many Childminders routinely take the children they care for out and about. This wonderful project in Stoke should inspire and motivate practitioners to notice just how much there is of value for …

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Early Years qualifications and training for practicing outdoors

ECO updates and news, Training / 2 Comments / By / September 17, 2020

Early Childhood Outdoors aims to increase the confidence and competence of the early childhood care and education workforce in working in the outdoors with children from birth to seven, with the emphasis firmly on the day-to-day experience young children have in their early years settings. This week’s ECO blog post launches an important ongoing conversation …

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Fresh Air, Freedom and Fun

Guest post, Training / Leave a Comment / By / September 17, 2020

By Felicity Thomas Norfolk is putting ‘Learning in the Outdoors’ at centre stage for their Early Years training and development programme. Their annual Early Years Conference this year consists of three days promoting outdoor learning, investigation and information. A ‘Training Garden’ has been developed at the Early Years Hub in Norwich to show how all learning can happen …

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