OUR LEARNING SPACE : OUTDOOR EDUCATION

At the beginning of the project; An analysis study was conducted for students and teachers in our school to learn about the reflections of the Covid 19 epidemic on the school. According to the ana...

At the beginning of the project; An analysis study was conducted for students and teachers in our school to learn about the reflections of the Covid 19 epidemic on the school. According to the analysis results, students mostly wanted lessons to be held outdoors. However, it has been noticed that teachers lack skills in implementing outdoor education. Thereupon, our school aimed to solve the problem on an international scale by collaborating with other institutions in the European Union. In this way, we wanted to aim to improve teachers' outdoor education competencies. At the same time, we wanted to achieve the following goals in our project; * We wanted to improve the competencies of teachers so that outdoor education can be carried out in our schools. * We wanted our teachers to gain experience in international cooperation in outdoor education. * We wanted our teachers to specialize in outdoor education. * We wanted our schools to implement innovative education-training methods. * We wanted outdoor education to be learned locally and internationally. * We wanted to learn the advantages and risks of outdoor education in practice. * We wanted students to have improvements in academic-social-psychological areas.

We implemented 6 Activities in our project. We implemented 4 of these activities as a mobility activity, 1 as a virtual meeting activity and 1 as a dissemination activity. The activities carried out in the project are as follows. 1) Italy Activity: Teaching the educational processes for outdoor education and solving the problems encountered in education were taught. 2) Portugal Activity: What are the academic studies on outdoor education at local, national and international levels and how the course should be planned were taught. 3) Croatia Activity: The effects of out-of-school activities on students and the methods of measurement and evaluation in outdoor activities were taught. 4) Turkey Activity: Teachers learned how to design areas for outdoor education and how to choose areas for outdoor education. 5) Virtual Activity: In our mobility activities, the missing trainings were completed and the problems encountered in practice were solved. 6) Dissemination Activity: In order to achieve the aims and objectives of our project, activities to be carried out locally, dissemination activities and the management area of the project were planned.

The goals and objectives included in the content of our project have been achieved. In this context, firstly, the forms specified in the project were applied to teachers and students. The concrete results achieved are as follows. * Teachers' implementation of outdoor education in their lessons (according to the results of the applied form) reached 82% from 13% in one year. * Teachers' skill levels in outdoor education have increased from 46% to 92%. * The proportion of students who stated that they were bored with the lessons at school and the place (classroom) where the lessons were taught decreased from 63% to 9%. At the same time, the following activities were carried out as concrete outputs in our project together with the partner schools. * In our project, a book about what outdoor education is and its implementation stages was created and distributed to all stakeholders. * In our project, sample outdoor lesson plans were created for all teachers to use and distributed to all stakeholders. * An android phone application for outdoor education was produced together with partner schools. * Outdoor education was presented at an international conference and produced as a book and article with ISBN number.