Placed Based Education

1. How place can enhance education?

1.1. Use a range of different tools to create a range of learning opportunities, including a range of different environments for students.

1.2. Get students to experience environments that are close to where they live, so as to integrate some kind of flow

2. How variations in classroom spaces can enhance overall learning?

2.1. Use all Resources: Do not restrict or limit your teaching to familiar areas. Use the opportunity to explore, find and create unique learning experiences. Utilise community leaders to collaborate in teaching your students about their particular field, (E.g Farmers, governing bodies, doctors)

3. What are Placed Based Education goals?

3.1. Improving Students Achievement:Place Based Education encourages student participation within and for the community and aims to improve their sense of responsibility and ownership of their environment. This has been found to stimulate academic excellence.

3.2. Schools and Community Collaboration:  Place Based Education helps develop and improve strong bonds between various local organisations and the school, helping to connect and integrate students into the community

3.3. Preserving the Environment: Students learn from their environment, making them environmentally conscious. Which encourages them to take steps to preserve it and solve existing environmental issues.

4. Place Based Curriculum Integration

4.1. Developing Place Based Knowledge into various Curriculum Capabilities

4.2. Able to Integrate Placed Based Education, in a variety of Subject Areas (Numeracy, Humanities, Literacy, Arts etc).

4.3. Creating subject assessments that incorporate Placed Based Education

5. Outcomes in relation to how place based education can enhance learning

5.1. Thinking about specific places that can be integrated easily into curriculum outcomes including reliance to specific subject e.g. how numeracy can be introduced into navigation skills in Outdoor Education.

5.2. How learning paddling skills on specific water bodies can aid in overall understanding of Geography based water course topics e.g. Paddling on Lake Eildon can directly aid in understanding the Gouldourn Valley fruit industry.

6. Incorporation of specific place based communities to aid in overall understanding in relation to what it means to be part of specific areas in Australia and how this relates back to Educative outcomes.

6.1. As well as the local environment, the various members of your community also have a significant role in Place Based Learning. Parents and community leaders are great sources of resources just waiting to be utilise.

6.2. Aim to incorporate a range of educational opportunities for students to

7. What is Place Based Education?

7.1. The view that the classroom is constantly changing, where teaching can occur anywhere & everywhere

7.2. It allows for learning to occur through experiences, facilitated in an educational way

7.3. Teachers provide opportunities for students to learn through experiences based on their surroundings