Special Considerations for Teachers

Tips for and from Teachers

During focus groups teachers wrote down what they think teachers need to teach outdoors, and tips that they would give to a new teacher who had never taught outdoors. Here’s what they said.

Resources from the Boston Schoolyard Initiative

The following resources were created by the Boston Schoolyard Initiative, in partnership with Boston Public Schools and BPS teachers.

• Science in the Schoolyard Videos: Boston Public Schools teachers teaching Full Option Science System (FOSS) kits using the schoolyard.
  http://www.fossweb.com/web/foss-fossweb/foss-video?videoLink=BSI_Video/BSI_Large.flv
• Science in the Schoolyard Guides to FOSS kits: One of the science curricula used by Boston Public Schools is the Full Option Science System (FOSS). Helping teachers take the FOSS curriculum outside was a key ingredient in the BSI Science in the Schoolyard model.
  http://www.schoolyards.org/edu.science.html
• Tips and Tricks for Outdoor Classroom Management
  http://www.schoolyards.org/pdf/Tips_and_Tricks_2012.pdf
• Structuring an Outdoor Lesson
  http://www.schoolyards.org/pdf/structuring_outdoor_lesson.pdf
• Increasing Biodiversity of your Schoolyard
  http://www.schoolyards.org/pdf/increase_biodiversity.pdf
• Boston Schoolyard Initiative: Taking Learning Outdoors: A video on BSI's Education Program.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUSzeonSPE&feature=youtu.be

For more information on the Boston Schoolyard Initiative and Science in the Schoolyard, please visit www.schoolyards.org.