Play in the outdoor area requires professionals and parents to have confidence in children. As a professional/parent, it is at least as important to trust in yourself where you can make a correct assessment of danger.

The views you have on learning and development affect the learning context you create. Here, we provide a diagram that can help you gain insight into a number of educational models.

Guiding play requires pedagogical tact. It is about developing a quality of connection between teacher and toddler. If you can establish a good connection with the children and give didactic impulses to the game from there, you can create rich…

A stimulating question invites a closer look. Elsteeg (1985) defines these questions as productive questions. “Productive questions call for action and support children's investigations of concrete objects.”

What is a script? A script describes everything that can be heard or seen in a fragment down to the smallest detail. Thoughts and feelings are not described.

Making reconstructions of experience means: trying to put oneself in other people's shoes in order to perceive what they perceive. It is seeing and feeling the things that are just below the surface.

Active supervision, while still giving your child the chance to explore and develop, is key. Child safety experts recommend matching your level of supervision with the potential risk your child is facing, something they call “stages of vigilant…

Regardless of the time of year, no matter where you are in the world, you can make time to become more aware of what is happening in your immediate environment. Try to use all your senses and look for details.

By grammar we literally mean an explanatory list of words, arranged alphabetically that relate to a subject or a discipline, more specifically in this project "outdoor education"