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Incursions 

 

Different by design

Programs aims

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To share easy to replicate programs, ideas and tools with education communities interested in connecting curriculum with outdoor learning and play.

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To support  teachers, address issues of inattention and restlessness with practical, quick activities. Enabling them to teach without distraction and with less interruptions.

 

To get children moving with lessons outdoors that support focus, attention, engagement and attainment.

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Walk alongside school leaders and communities, and model new ways to use school grounds. On land learning unique to your place, supporting school identity and growth of community.

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Use the 8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning, to guide a focus on learning processes, from an Aboriginal perspective, rather than content. Learning together and working together to say thank you and give back.

 

"Tell a story. Make a plan. Think and do. Draw it. Take it outside. Try a new way. Watch first, then do, Share it with others".

(credit 8 Ways of which you can learn more about here)

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Outdoor 

Learning Incursion

Series

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Play States

for everyone

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Thinkerlabs

Creativity by Design

Lauren K - The Hills Montessori School

Maria's visit to The Hills Montessori School inspired such great exploration from the simplest of ideas that have continued to be revisited and expanded upon. It supported us to reimagine how we use our natural environment to innovate. 

Qualifications

Master's in Education (2011)

Bachelor of Education (Junior Primary / Primary) (1997)

Presenting

 

I have presented at national and international conferences. These include:

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International Outdoor Educators Research Conference (Co presented with Dr Amanda Lloyd, Sunshine Coast,2018)

Early Learning STEM Australia Symposium (Canberra, 2018)

Educators SA Literacy and Numeracy Forum (Adelaide,2018/19)

Early Years STEM conference (Adelaide Hills, 2019) 

Curiosity, Creativity and STEM in Early Learning Webinar (2022),

Playing with Curriculum (Adelaide, 2022) ,

STEM in Nature Based Early Learning Environments [2018-2022],

AISSA Educational Leaders STEM conference,

Finding the ‘c’ in STEM (Co presented with Jason Tyndall 2021),

Young Children are the Architects of the Future Webinar (AISSA) 2019 / 2020,

Jeavons Environmental Educational Seminar (Vic, 2018/19),

Literacy and Numeracy in the Early Years (2019),

Teaching in an outdoor learning environment (2018-2022),

Outdoor Learning in the Australian Curriculum,

STEM in Nature Based Early Learning Environments,

Taking Math's Outside / Taking Literacy Outside Educators SA Forum,

ALEA State Conference (organising committee 2008),

Establishing Literacy Groups in the Early Years (co presented with Desiree Gilbert 2008),

Kath Murdoch (ALEA) Inquiry conference (digital literacies round table facilitator (2007)

Contact

ph: +61422460831    hello@mariataylorconsulting.com

I send out a fortnightly newsletter with links to resources, creative play ideas, research and more. It's called Create and Play Outside the Box. Subscribe here.

I respectfully acknowledge the Kaurna people who are the traditional owners of the land on which I live and work and pay my respects to  Elders, past, present and emerging.

I would also like to recognise the traditional peoples of this continent, whose land was stolen nearly 250 years ago. I am inspired by the traditions of learning on land, learning through story and working with community to give back to this country that we all call home. This land was and always will be the land of the First Nations People. 

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