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There may be barriers to outdoor activities in a classical school. Notable barriers include:- Fear and health and safety concerns;- teachers' distrust of teaching in the field;- School Rules;- school curriculum requirements;- lack of time, resources and supp...

Debriefing (10 min): To wrap up the session, the trainer will facilitate a debriefing moment where participants are encouraged to express their questions, doubts, ideas and feelings toward the topics discussed.

Activity 1 - 3 hours Following the Roadmap for Open Schooling, explained in this module, try to map the community around your school: What are the projects already in place to connect your school with the neighborhood?  What are the resources available? ...

Once the school puts in place the Open Schooling approach, it is useful to have a more reflective moment to understand how the process of openness is working. The project "Open Schools for Open Societies" offers a methodology and the tools needed that provide...

120’ duration: (Trainer) - (support: slides & video & web)   A structural change: Roadmap to Open Schooling  This part of the module will touch upon the practical aspects that schools have to deal with in order to be able to drive the change towards an open...

Why should a school become "open"? Open Schooling  can provide the participating schools with numerous opportunities to engage in local, national and international activities with lasting benefits for the school heads, the students, the teachers, the school a...

10’ ice breaking game - support: slides Description of the activity → Ice breaker: Teachers can share one experience of collaboration of their school with the local community.

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, "Open Educational Resources (OER)" are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been r...

  Reflecting on the Bronfenbrenner Social-Ecological Model of Development, try to place your school and your local community in this system by using the following model as an example, and identify all the actors involved.    

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, "Open Educational Resources (OER)" are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released un...

  After having participate in the first session of this third module on Open Schooling, reflect on your own school and answer the following questions (you can work alone or in group with your colleagues): - Why do you think that Open schooling would be relev...

Below you can find some inspiring examples of Open Schooling projects performed in the project "Open Schools for Open Societies". Multidisciplinarity - an open mathematics lesson where students with their teachers make a journey in time and space looking...

When using Open Schooling, the education gets connected with real life. It is not an abstract subject, but it is always associated with hands-on experiences, practical examples, and learning by doing.  This means, that by using Open Schooling, teachers underta...

Open schooling comes from a bottom-up interest from single schools and educational centers interested in pedagogical innovation, but is also slowly supported by top-down institutional reccomendations and documents. International and European organizations have...

90’ duration - support: slides       → About Open schooling Starting from the awareness that the current educational methods, and the traditional school model does not meet the needs of a fast-changing world, nor bring the skills needed to face the 21st...

Ice breaking game Time extimated for this part: 15’  - Support: slides     → Ice breaker: "when I say school"  Participants are invited to answer to this question:  "when I say school, what is the first image you have in mind?   In our m...

        Introduction to the module This module is built to help teachers and school staff to turn their school into an “Open schooling system”. By using this module, practitioners will learn how to create cooperation among schools and the ...

The knowledge's market is a tool for Open Schools that are interested in understand what  students‘ interests can the local community respond to. The “knowledge’s market” can be a useful tool to meet students’ needs and interests while connecting them to the ...