Outdoor School Field Experience

Catalog description

To provide students with educational leadership skills and teaching opportunities working with children in an outdoor residential camp setting. RPTM 140 Outdoor School Field Experience (2 per semester/maximum of 4) is cross listed as SCIED 140 . The Outdoor School Field Experience course allows students to observe, learn, and apply leadership techniques and teaching methodologies in an experiential, residential education program that occurs off campus. This field-based experience provides students with numerous opportunities to practice and refine their leadership and teaching skills through active participation in one week of Outdoor School Field Experience. Students are provided with the opportunity to explore personal values related to the natural environment, sustainable practices, health and wellness and technology, and to practice behavioral changes as they role model those values to the residential campers.