Teaching Outside The Classroom

The Victorian collaborative network of Professional Teaching Associations led by Outdoors Victoria have been asked by the Department Of Education And Training to explore options for improving the quality of resources and professional learning for teachers in Australian schools in reference to Education outside the classroom.

Your voice is needed to help us understand areas in which further resources would be beneficial. 

We would greatly appreciate you completing this 5-7 minute survey to help us better understand areas of need so that resources can be developed and implemented in Victorian Schools.  

We take your privacy and data security seriously. Your responses are anonymous and your data will be treated as strictly confidential. Your answers will be used to inform our work but no individual responses will be attributed to you. We may use your answers to illustrate survey results, but will not disclose your identity.

If you would like any more information on the survey, please contact Luke Parker from Outdoors Victoria at Luke.Parker@acu.edu.au

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* 1. Name of Person completing the survey (Optional)

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* 2. What phase of schooling do you mostly teach?

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* 3. Role at Workplace ? (E.g - Teacher, Coordinator, Principal) 

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* 4. What Region are you located in?

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* 5. How often do you take students outdoors? E.g. – playground, local park, local river, Zoo, Museum

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* 6. If you are taking students outside the classroom what are the types of activities are you conducting?

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* 7. How confident are you taking students outside the classroom?

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* 8. In your work context please rank the following barriers in reference to conducting teaching outside the classroom?

 
Time
Cost
Location
Administration
Lack of resources
Lack of clear usable curriculum
Your Experience Level
Staff reluctance / Support

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* 9. Would the creation and distribution of further resources / teacher toolkits (info packs) specifically related to teaching outside the classroom from the DET be welcomed? And Why?

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* 10. Are there any additional barriers to teaching outside the classroom that have not been noted in the previous question and if so please explain

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* 11. Within these Teacher tool-kits would you prefer there to be a focus on areas (Rivers, Parks, Playgrounds, beaches) or on other focus areas such as team building, reflection, and risk analysis or a combination of both ?

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* 12. Within these toolkits would you like to see a combination of Lesson plans, ICT videos, Handouts, and websites?

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* 13. Below is a range of potential toolkit topics, please rank each of these in order or believed importance

 
Environments (e.g. – Rivers, Parks, Beaches , Ovals)
Benefits of teaching outside the classroom
Design and implementation of teaching outside the classroom (Risk Assessments, Facilitation / inclusion strategies)
Cross Curricular Opportunities for  teaching outside the classroom (Including indigenous cultures)
Activity Specific (Climbing, Walking etc.)

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* 14. What would be the ideal platform for access to these resources on teaching outside the Classroom?

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* 15. Would you find further professional learning on Teaching outside the classroom beneficial?

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* 16. In addition to the above areas are there any areas in which you believe Resource creation would be beneficial ?

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* 17. Would you be interested in being involved in the creation or testing of Teacher Toolkits on Behalf of On behalf of a Victorian collaborative network of Professional Teaching Associations for the Department Of Education and Training ? If so please enter your email address in the below text box.

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