Learning outside the Classroom

 

Learning outside the classroom can be a good thing for children as it can help to apply their own knowledge across a range of activities. By learning outside the classroom it can help build bridges for children between theory and reality. Rather than sitting in a classroom and listening about it, by taking them out of the classroom they can experience it for themselves what it is like which will then interest them and will result in further knowledge. Children learn more by doing things and enjoying it rather than listening about something and having no interest.
By experiencing ‘real’ situations, the level of achievement will rise throughout the subjects and therefore will allow children to develop and better their personal and social skills. Learning outside the classroom can take place in a variety of places such as museums, art galleries, beaches, parks. When planned, experiences like these can meet the needs of children very well by a number of ways. They improve academic achievement and allow the children to develop skills and independence in different environments. Learning is more engaged and more relevant and enjoyable. A child’s creativity can also be nurtured and behavioural problems will reduce as the children are probably more likely to learn and listen in an environment that interests them.

 

To experience what learning outside the classroom would be like for children, I took a visit to Swansea Waterfront Museum to see what it was like.

When going there i discovered that the national waterfront museum tells the story of industrialisation and innovation of Wales over the past 300 years.

Its a good place to visit as its good for welsh children to learn about how this country become what it is today. It would help them develop much more in the knowledge and understanding of the world and their own cultural diversity.
Throughout the museum there are quiz machines which are multiple choices which allow the children’s knowledge to grow through the idea of trial and error. There were also a lot of interactional exhibitions which provides the child to learn hands on. This is good for kinaesthetic learners where the writing part explaining what to do and what happens is good for the visual/reading learners.  I come across clay in which i made a Claymation.  I believed that this was good creative hands on development where children can learn for themselves in an enjoyable way.