Place Based Teaching

1. What does it mean to have a connection to place?

1.1. How do you demonstrate to students that you can connect with place in a variety of ways? Why is this important?

1.2. What does it mean to care for place and build a lasting relationship with a specific place?

1.3. What does it mean to get student to engage with place based education?

2. What does it mean to be part of place based education?

2.1. Integrate a variety of ideas in to similar themed topics

2.2. Facilitate meaningful place based experiences in relation to environmental education

2.3. Integrate community minded entities to implement lasting programs with the school community

3. Strategies to help create sustainable place based strategies?

3.1. Utilise techniques that can be trialed and changed over long periods in time

3.2. Create strategies that can be integrated not only at school but with the students whole lives

3.3. Make the concept of place based learning simple and easy for a dynamic audience to understand

4. How do you integrate place based teaching into education?

4.1. Recreating how to implement a range of environments from the surrounding area. For example: Using an area such as Mansfield to talk about the changing seasons and how that can be integrated into other curriculum outcomes.

4.2. Thinking about how you can implement small environmental outcomes into a variety of topics such as water flow in a specific area. What does the Murray River system mean to Australia in comparison to where you live?

5. How to teach place based education for life?

5.1. How do you implement these teaching techniques into a sustainable thought process?

5.2. What does it mean to give students the tools to think more dynamically about their surroundings?

5.3. How do you engage students with the idea of place?

5.4. How do students typically engage with place? And why?