Forest schools: Lessons in outdoor education
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2021
- Forest schools, in which students are instructed outside rather than in classrooms, have become a learning experience for many - and have added benefits in a time of pandemic. Correspondent Conor Knighton visits an immersive forest school in Oregon, where being outdoors all day - even in inclement weather - becomes part of the learning process.
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Meanwhile in Finland, this is normal everyday learning.
As a kindergarten teacher in a public school today, I think this is awesome. Kids need to move more and be outside.
This looks absolutely phenomenal! I'm all for this becoming part of a normal curriculum.
I am waiting for outdoor community colleges and universities (public and private) for ALL ages WORLDWIDE!
I'm ready!
I really, really want this to be the norm!
I can't imagine how wonderfully this will effect these young students
I’m all for this!✌🏼💙🏜
This is great. Wish this was a part of all schools
All learning should be started from nature...
My daughter teaches at one of these schools in WA State and she shares that this type of teaching is awesome. Kids love it! Fresh air and sunshine all day.
Love what Portland, Maine schools are doing. We love our outdoors in Maine!
Love this and love Portland, Maine!
@H. Nguyen you should look up Sudbury schools
@H. Nguyen no it is a kind of school. It did start in Sudbury mass but is all over the world now. And I went to one but not the one in sudbury
@@knittingdoula This is in Oregon, NOT Maine!
@dottieam49 This is in Oregon, NOT Maine! 🤦🏼♀️😂
Thank you for spreading environment awareness!!!!! ❤️🙏
I am an educator, and I luv it!
Which one are you 🤔?
I am a Camp Director for a Nature Based day camp in MA. There are amazing rewards to having staff and children in the outdoors almost all day. And Tony is a creative force in this work! I have had the pleasure of watching Trackers grow over the last several years.
According to Google search, there are 100 forest schools in the US. That's a surprise!
"Look deep in to Nature and you will Understand everything better".
Albert Einstein
I love this quote, thank you!
Hooray! I’m so happy to see that you included Sharon Danks from Green Schoolyards America in this piece. Their work to transform asphalt schoolyards into ecologically rich “parks” is so important.
I love this! This is such exciting news! I'm sooo happy for the children, there's wonder in all of the outdoors.
Really, it's a wonderful modern method of outdoor learning & teaching kids, it helps them bring what they learnt as theories into real life.
My kids would have loved this type of 'school'.. they were very active and needed lots of outdoor time which we were able to give them outside of school!!
This looks incredible! I live in Oregon, and would love to see this more!
it's sad that this is considered different instead of the norm
It's been demonstrated in studies that kids who do outdoor learning have better immunity. What's usually not considered in that is how toxic many public buildings are.
love to see more forest schools in the world
Best kind of learning
A lot gets done through the efforts of grassroots! Excellent idea. I used to hate being cooped up inside classrooms! Hope more schools are open to the idea!
Love & support this "new" methodology for children and adults alike! May it become part of the new American curriculum 🇺🇸❣.
I want to sign up... I grew up in Long Beach Ca and your Sixth grade year and freshman year of High School, you attend a Fall week in Camp Hi Hill. Our school district used to own the property and now its Religious Camp Site. Learned everything about the outdoors there... Good times... Now kids won't stray far from Wifi..
Sure takes me back to when I was with my class in the forest, but those were only Field Trips, from time to time.
Forest schools are very popular in the UK. Even some top boarding schools have a forest school that students have classes in some of the time. It works really well with young children to keep them active and not stuck in a classroom.
Outdoor classrooms can foster a sense of community and collaboration. They provide opportunities for group projects, teamwork, and social interaction in a natural and relaxed setting.
I believe that this environment makes children more receptive to learning.
Although it's not quite Outdoor Schools, I'm pretty biased towards Montessori learning. Being outside and learning hands on has a great, positive effect on kids. Why did we forget this when we become adults is beyond me.
Love this. ❤️
My nephews went to a public alternative forest school outside of Burlington, VT. It’s been an option for kids for over a decade.
Wonderful!!!
Reminds me of my home/outside school
Students can not only learn from nature but also learn to appreciate and respect nature.
Lots of outdoor options out there. Tinkergarten is in so many 🇺🇲.
No piercing intercom. No slamming lockers. No administrators with check boxes. Nice.
The kids would probably look forward to the next day. I would.
As a teacher for one of these programs I can tell you it is strange how effective it is I really don't know why but you can tell a difference in engagement and retention
As one of the students, I know that you are that one substitute who drinks lots of coffee
@@tiredraylabelike6576 close I shotgun monster like medicine 😭😭
@@chrism82793 What? Also i saw you at that camp last week!
@@APerson-hu8lc trackers is amazing program and of course it's strange cuz the concept isn't actually that revolutionary it's just revolutionary to the US and specifically California which is where I worked at Northern Bay area I think it mentioned it in the video but Europe goes crazy for these programs
Being stuck in a classroom with led lights and little socializing is not good for anyone
This is awesome.
So you are following the format that many homeschoolers have successfully used for years.
Thiss is what school should be!!! Turn to Reggio Emilia, Finland etc
Sounds like Scouting to me!
Nature ..... SO important! ☀️🌳🌲🦆🌿🍂🌦️🌬️🌼💦🐟🌱❄️🌾🍁
If education is not integrated with reality then it is pointless because majority of what children are taught indoor will never and cannot be used outdoor!
I'm literally obsessed. Being outside is so much more engaging, your brain is working more, it's more awake and happy and better focused. Its probably cheaper than real schools too, cause you don't need to build, clean, upkeep, heat the building, meaning you could pay teachers more. Have schools located in forests would also decrease forestry and teach kids a love for nature. Why is the public education system not jumping on this.
The schools they talked about in Maine are public.
Authentic outside teaching
Wow
For this generation
I grew up in the 1970"s whrn this was Free and had outdoors recrsd2and even walk to a nearby park near a creek and eat lunch there
All kids everywhere needs this experience
Wonderful ❤️
15 yrs ago did this homeschooling my kids eclectically. Everything from doing community service at animal shelter to picking up cans along county road then figuring your pay per hour, noting ratio of ETOH cans to soft drink cans, distribution of cans from vendor, what colors lasted longer and why, picking up wildflowers to identify, going on any factory tour I could find, parks, beaches, my kids were there.
Kudos, I want my tax money to support this initiative. ..don't want to give my money to send space ships to Mars...
@Itis Me With where that money is going, we'll be gone long before we ever need it.
I wonder if Oregon is as bad with mosquitoes in spring as Alaska. They come at you in baseball-sized swarms.
interesting
Outdoor classrooms like these are amazing. That the children are forced to wear masks like this OUTSIDE is absolutely ludicrous.
Actually, as one of the students for two years, I can say that the mask were definitely worth it. (In my classroom, at least) we only got sick (as in multiple people at once) one time. The masks helped and without them we would have gotten far more sick.
Unfortunately, they don't talk about how much all of this costs. Trackers is a school that only people from wealthy families can afford. This is never going to be available for kids from underprivileged families.
I totally agree!!!
You think heating and cooling buildings is cheaper than the park?
💚💚💚
Normal for many kids in Germany.
I'm jelly
"Authentic education," she says while wearing a mask and standing in a stream.
omg I would had my kifs in this so fast
One of those is in M3GAN
Ecology
Maybe one thing they could teach first would be that it’s completely unnecessary to wear masks outdoors. You are outside with fresh oxygen produced by the beautiful trees you are surrounded by. BREATH IT IN. Please follow actual science and model smart behavior not blind compliance and fear. Other than that, beautiful learning environment
Good on Portland Maine Public Schools but does anyone really think that American Teachers Unions would do this en masse? Catholic and Private schools remained upon and remained safe-just as Rand Paul told Fauci last fall. Kids in public schools, especially boys, lost a year of their lives due to the raw exercise of political power by teachers unions.
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Outdoors and wearing masks. Idiocracy. Missing the forest for the trees.
Outdoor with masks. 🙈What do children ‚learn‘ from this? 🙈🙈🙈
how sad and ridiculous that the kids are being made to wear facemask.
This is GREAT!! At lleast they are back to learning something...But why do they have to wear MASK!! LET THOSE BABIES BREATH!!! They are outside!!! Give me a break!!!
#westillgotsickandweareolderandsmarterthaninfantsyourepublicanbutthanksforimplyingthatiguess
Outside all day, but still making them wear masks. 🤦🏼♀️
@Amanda Aquafina the clip with the kid in a T-shirt and all in masks? Most people use a scarf, a ski mask or one of those stretchy bandana things for cold protection... using masks would be kind of odd. 🤷🏼♀️
We still got sick. (As one of the students) you should probably check how much they helped us. And it wasn’t even much of a problem, you got used to it and ut didn’t interfere with anything. No problem.
@@tiredraylabelike6576 you said it - you still got sick.
@@stillwatersfarm8499 and what would happend if we never wore the masks? (got sick in the recent school year, not the year that this was filmed). Recent school year didn’t enforce masks as much.
@@tiredraylabelike6576 So, now you are gaslighting. Got it. My husband designed the air handlers for Covid hospital rooms. Your little mask did nothing.
Keep in mind for the cost of sending one child to Trackers Forest School you could buy a new Kia and have money left over. They've also been accused of racist administration practices by community groups in Portland, Ore.
children wearing masks... oh dear...
Calm down ✋
Damn hippies. Have fun at art school before packing boxes at Amazon.