Pedagogy

Due to the fact that scouts are coming from all over the world, the school's pedagogy is an outdoors pedagogy, which is built up of several composite pedagogies and pedagogical theories.

The pedagogy is characterized by a high degree of "learning by doing" where the students are to create a practical framework for the functioning of themselves and the school. In order for the students to build a professional and mental development in the zone of proximal development, there will be a need for didactic teaching methods that address this, and one of the methods that have proven to be incredibly effective is the use of outdoor life in the classroom.

Therefore, the school’s education is also built around this. Outdoor life is more than just working under open skies. Outdoors is a valuable way of being together and an ideal setting for learning with your whole body. You get both the body and the brain to work together through movement and creative activities, while at the same time the student receives a reality and context of society.

At the school we do not believe that skills can be learned by explanation and demonstration alone but can only really be acquired through private practice, including cooperative learning. The student’s attitude is best expressed and developed through actions and new discoveries achieved by dialogue and reflection. Outdoor recreation is a unique opportunity to stimulate students’ wonder of the miracle of life and promote a concept of nature, which gives students the desire and understanding that we must take care of our environment.

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t also offers conditions which sharpen the senses and therefore cooperation invites to find creative solutions, act quickly and provide physical exercise. Nature is a "playground" with endless options within the game or the activity which takes place on its premises. Much of the teaching will take place outside where you use the local environment and its elements such as water, earth, sun and air. But there will also be playful learning, such as role-play and games.

Around each month the school gets a new theme that each teacher must teach after. Each theme is around three weeks where the snail method is being use.Every year the themes are changing. But this are the teams for the first school year: 

• Time Travel and the Future,

• History,

• Nature in everyday life and Sustainable

• The World and The Universe,

• Too Created,

• The Everyday,

• A Trip To The Inner Space,

• Near Area,

• Scout Skills

There are an endless number of themes which all school subjects can cover in one way or another. The teaching takes place either in the way of going out in the neighborhood, using nature or the city as a classroom or by being at school and having playful learning.

At the school we also use those learning methods

• Snail method

• Learning by doing: A pedagogical principle believing that the best way to acquire a skill is to use it in practice.

• The Zone of Proximal Development: Often abbreviated as ZPD, is the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. It is a concept introduced, yet not fully developed, by Soviet psychologist Vygotsky.

• Cooperative learning: An educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.

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There is much more to Cooperative Learning than merely arranging students into groups and it has been described as "structuring positive interdependence”. Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals. Unlike individual learning, which can be competitive in nature, students learning cooperatively can capitalize on one another’s resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating ideas, monitoring work, etc.).

Furthermore, the teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning. Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds.