Classroom As Community

This is a Place-Based Education approach to connect classroom and communities to increase engagement, learning, and community impact.

Communities serve as learning ecosystems for schools where local and regional experts, experiences, and places are part of the expanded definition of a classroom.

Use this approach as a process of using the local community and environment as a starting point to teach concepts in physical education, outdoor education, language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and other subjects across the curriculum. Using the local community as a classroom emphasizes real-world learning experiences.

​Includes 3 avenues of learning:

1. Bringing the community into the classroom through guest speakers and content.
2. Bringing the students into the community on learning journeys, and
3. Simply going outside the classroom to do something you could have just done inside.

Emphasizing hands-on learning grounded in community increases academic achievement, develops stronger student commitment to community, and encourages the development of active, contributing citizens.

There are 6 Learner-Centred Practices to a Place-Based Educational Approach