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What is Teaching Outside the Classroom?

Teaching Outside the Classroom supports the development of placements for trainee teachers in settings other than schools. This website helps you set up and evaluate placements, and provides case studies of existing good practice.

Teaching outside the classroom is the use of settings other than schools for teaching and learning.

Settings other than schools are a diverse range of organisations that engage with children and young people’s learning, from museums and galleries to sports and football clubs, city farms, and environmental centres.

ITT providers include universities and other higher education institutions as well as consortia of schools that provide graduate teacher training programmes.

Placements for trainee teachers in settings such as theatres, museums, outdoor education centres and sports clubs expose trainees to new professional relationships that improve teaching and learning.

By supporting the development of partnerships between ITT providers and a diverse range of educational settings, Teaching Outside the Classroom aims to:

  • develop the creative skills of teachers and pupils through partnership working
  • provide meaningful learning experiences for young people

 

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“You can talk about things in school, but seeing the real thing is better”

Trainee teacher, West Midlands

“Providers of ITT should be encouraged to consider how they prepare new entrants for the wider roles and partnership-based work in which teachers are placed…. Placements within…organisations engaged with young people’s learning would help trainee teachers to think about alternative approaches to teaching and learning”

Nurturing Creativity in Young People report 2006

“If the creative potential of student teachers is ignored, it is unlikely that they will be able to promote the creative and cultural development of pupils”

All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education, DfEE National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE), 1998

Creative Partnerships MLA tda Department for Children Schools and Families Cape UK Arts Council England

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