Do you imagine such a "classroom"?
There are no blackboards, no tables and chairs, not even walls and ceilings. Teachers and students touch, feel, and talk about cultural relics and natural creatures on the streets, by rivers, in botanical gardens, and even in forests.
将学习从四墙之内延伸至外的“户外教育”（Education outside the classroom, 简称EOTC）。 户外教育能让学生的学习更贴近生活，补充课堂教学不能达到的效果，这就是新西兰中小学的特色教育。
新西兰的户外教育是如何发展的
In 1981, the New Zealand Ministry of Education officially introduced the concept of "outdoor education", which advocated taking students outside the classroom to learn about nature-related topics as a teaching method of environmental education.
At the turn of the century, the Ministry of Education explicitly included "education in the environment" in the New Zealand School Environmental Education Guidelines, and as a result, hands-on teaching featuring field inquiry became a statutory strategy for environmental education in primary and secondary schools.
“户外教育”的活动内容和教学形式不拘一格、灵活多样，包括山地骑车，学习使用独木舟，传统定向野营，地理、生物实地考察，学习丛林知识，掌握丛林生存技能，参观博物馆、画廊、美术馆，出国游学等。
“户外教育”如何开展
All students in New Zealand are in Year 10, at the age of 14-15, undergo a three-day wilderness survival training organized by the school. 而且新西兰还有许多户外运动培训机构，能够为学生提供这方面专业的培训课程。
目前，户外实地探究是新西兰中小学环境教育的主要方法，学生们每个学期都会组织1-2次外游，让孩子们能与大自然零距离接触，在亲身参与的过程中产生热爱环境的情感、学习分析和解决环境问题的技能、并形成正确的价值观和态度。
For example, students can be guided to create a small garden outdoors, develop a green garden project, or take students out of the classroom to convey their environmental knowledge to the wider community.
户外教育能学到什么
“户外教育”脱离传统的教室，却为学生提供更丰富的学习资源，让他们在真实的生活场景中学习，使抽象概念更加具体易懂。
孩子们可以从温度、天气等不同的维度了解季节，也认识到季节如何影响人类和动植物的活动。 还可以通过描述叶子颜色的变化，学习描述声音的词汇，如沙沙声、跺脚声、嘎吱声等等，从而丰富学生对于季节的认知。
This experiential approach to teaching allows students to connect with knowledge, the outside world, and often deepen their understanding of knowledge and different values in an accessible and more authentic way.
“户外教育”与国内“填鸭式”传授知识的教育方式，有天渊之别，如果说国内教育让学生们能牢固掌握书本的知识，那么新西兰的教育就是让学生在户外的实践中掌握生活的技能。
怎么样的孩子适合“户外教育”
Many people will definitely question the fact that children will not learn anything when they come to such a happy education, and life skills children will naturally understand when they grow up that real and solid knowledge is the key to learning.
As the saying goes, "Read 10,000 books, travel 10,000 miles", I think that no matter which way you go, you have their own benefits, depending on what kind of child is more suitable for what kind of education.
My daughter loves sports, loves nature, and travels around the world, so she can find something different in her daily life. Once I took her to the park, she found that the grass in New Zealand is casually stepped on, but the lawn in China is not treadable, and she asked me curiously why. I told her that because New Zealand has abundant rain and sunshine, and the grass grows quickly, there is no need to "protect" the grass here, and the grass is very vigorous, and the spring breeze blows and grows.
Her book grades are not satisfactory, and she is a C or B in every dictation in China, and it is difficult to understand mathematics. I think she should change her path and learn and grow from thousands of miles away, and I am very glad that she can grow up in a New Zealand environment.
But if your child likes books very much and has always been at the top of the exams, then domestic education is more suitable, because it is the "testing ground for academic masters".
If you want to know and experience "outdoor education" in New Zealand, welcome to consult.