Portugal Outdoor Leadership March 25

The last blog texts were written here in Lisbon

in a chair with his own shade trees.

Many thanks to you all for such a fun,
rewarding week not least, Britta, Margrit,
Tove and Dusan who arranged everything.

The week that taught us about:

 • leadership

 • teambilding

 • practical exercises in different environments,

   forest, beach and town

 • reflection in the group and share it with others

  our different experiences throughout the Comenius spirit.

The course lead to additional networking

outdoor education will develop in

 • schoolyard

 • the city

 • nature

 You also search Comenius course in the Live Long Learning program !

 In addition to courses like Portugal course, there are

 • school exchanges

 • job shadowing

 • conferences

 Courses are arranged for example from  Kinda Muncipality

 Courses funded by the International Programe Office, Comenius training


Hope to see You somewhere else in Europe to continue our networking, developing schools.

Portugal Outdoor Leadership March 23

Last day of the week we stayed at

Cacais a city west of Lisbon.

Goal:

Reflections in the new groups, risk-taking,

summary of the week.  City Park as a stage.

 What we did:

 Grouping  so that we are working with similar age groups

 came together. Very rewarding  reflections in these groups.

Theater

Every day was played by the various groups.

Totally crazy and fun.

Risk taking

Tove illustrated with good examples thoughts

on how we can reason about risk taking.

We should collectively think about cycling,

canoeing and cooking over an open fire.

Summary of the week

Dusan did with our help, a good summary of the past week.

Tove's poem and course certificates were given to us.

Even now, as every morning Tove read a poem for us.

Margrit then shared out course certificates to all of us

and Dusan played and everyone sang.

Learned today:

City Park in Cacais works well as classroom.

Risk-taking how we prepare an outdoor activity

This week has given me so much from so

many great teachers from across Europe.

In some days comes one more text about the course.

Portugal Outdoor Leadership March 22

Blogginläggen från Portugal är på engelska

som led i att sprida kunskap om Comenius kurser

till pedagoger från Europa som besöker bloggen

ch till kursdeltagarna på kursen.

Every morning before "Melona" we had a time for some

sun in the enclosed courtyard at the hotel.

Goal:

Leadership behavior, reflections

What made​​:

How shall a good leader behave

Dussan showed with Britta clear good and bad examples

of ways to behave as a leader in different situations.

 Cabo da Rocha

Europe's western most point of land was the beginning

of an afternoon of reflection character.  

 

We walked back towards Muchaxo hotel

and had time to reflect, debate over the past week.

Portuguese delicacies

Served in the garden before we went down to Cacais.

The hotel owner welcomed us back to Muchaxo

and we got was her bottle Guincho sand.

Learned today:

How to behave us a leader and another good day for networking

Portugal Outdoor Leadership March 21

Blogginläggen från Portugal är på engelska

som ett led i att sprida kunskap om Commenius kurser

till pedagoger från Europa som besöker bloggen

och till kursdeltagare från Portugal.

Goal:

School visits, group practice in La Pena

What made​​:

School visits

Split into groups, we visited the Nature school only one

in Portugal in La Pena forest and school in Sintra.

In the Nature School, we helped to mend fences.

Visitors always helps out with various jobs so that

Nature School can live on. Fire danger is high in

Portugal therefore helps visitors often by picking sticks.

The school visit learned us why in south Europe here

is so little green on the school yards, water shortages

and therefore such a lot of concrete.

We were greeted by a warmth from the teachers and students.

Interested high school students talked about their plans

and were good, happy to speak English.

But still there was a schoolgarden with vetgetables.

Met math teacher, who was interested in Movium Math Lab

as well as teachers from the Comenius course. I will  send

both of them them all a folder on Matt lab printed in English.

For those with their asphalt surfaces, the Math Lab can be

useful for them, both in the playground and in the city.

Group exercises

Brittas beaver song in the forest La Pena, resulting in truly

amazing group exercises. We got 1 m rope and would do

anything that had to do with beavers.

The beavers managed to fell a tree "Kalle".

What a sight to see Kalle take action.

 Lookout point

 By forest like a church in La Pena, we walked to an old ruin with

 wind strange sight against Muchaxo our hotel and Guincho beach.

 Britta, as usual actor served "champagne" to all of us up there.

Elevators talk

went on from the previous day. Resulted in even more important networking.

Learned today:

Schoolyards understand why it is difficult to have more green

and why it is needed as much asphalt.

Networking the importance of constantly created space for this.
For us at the course to get too know each other better to help
the schools of Europe to develope.

I will be back another day with more abour the course.

Portugal Outdoor Leadership March 20

Blogginläggen från Portugal är på engelska

som led i att sprida kunskap om Comenius kurser

till pedagoger från Europa som besöker bloggen

och till kursdeltagarna på kursen.

Goal:

Group exercises and reflections in groups.

What made​​:

Group Exercise

We went to the World Heritage area Sintra in the hills,

to the forest and the palace La Pena.  The Palace la Pena

one of the finest examples of nineteenth century Portuguese

Romanticism and the integration of natural and built heritage.

We got an envelope with a map that showed where our

group would develop and implement exercise with the

other groups. We came to a small temple, therefore,

we chose an exercise with still hot.

We cut square holes in papers to hand out give  to our participants.

Participants were 2 and 2 and they sholuld together

find something to draw off together by looking

through the little square.

 Lunchtime at the castle of La Pena

Reflection

made by us in our own group and others reflected
on how we done our exercise.

Very fun, rewarding and educational.

Sintra

Now we got us a much needed restful hike down to the

World Heritage town of Sintra through the woods.

Southern Europe beautiful city centers invite us to a nice sangria.

Reflection

Group rules of yesterday was now for the benefit and everyone felt free.

Returned home to the hotel, we reflected in our groups about the last day.

What have I learned about myself, about others and how I felt?

International evening

The evening offered a cultural encounters from 35 funny educators

from 10 different countries.

Larned today

God group composition and rules of the group create god groups
that are creative and have fun together.

Reflections in the group makes all grow as people.

I will be back with more reports from Portugal