Who is this course for?
Curriculum Designers in Outdoor Education Companies
Adventure Company Managers
Experienced Survival & Bushcraft Instructors looking to up their game, get new ideas for their lessons, or add an additional module to their CV
Freelance Outdoor Instructors looking to boost their range of abilities to maximise employability
Bushcraft and Survival Hobbyists with a thirst for new knowledge and ideas
Scout Leaders and other Voluntary Activity Organisers
Parents wanting to give their kids a quality educational experience in nature
What's it about?
Watched all the videos, got all the equipment, made a few fires and shelters, pushed yourself with a few challenges, but just not sure how to translate all of this into a truly professional lesson, curriculum or experience for your students? This course uncovers the secrets to transitioning from being a keen adventurer to someone who participants can entrust to deliver safe, educational and fun lessons with an effective structure for optimal learning.
What will you learn?
You will cover a large range of fascinating knowledge and ideas for putting together your lessons, as well as the key to keeping participants engaged in what you are teaching them. You also learn the safe ways of teaching about knives, fire, traps, shelters, rafts, and a huge range of other survival topics.
Why should you enroll?
An additional certificate or module on a CV takes you a step higher. If an employee or partner can see that you have made the effort to invest in broadening your own knowledge - that you are someone who constantly seeks professional development - it will always give you extra points.
But don't do it just to say you have! You will also gain that great feeling of building up fresh knowledge. You'll feel yourself becoming a stronger, better educated instructor. Next time you are in front of students, you will feel a whole load more confident, safe in the knowledge that you have taken one more step to give the best experiences possible.
Upon successful completion of the exams, you will be issued with a certificate in Survival Instructor Pedagogy!
How long does it take?
Typically about 2-4 hours, although you can take it at your own pace, saving your progress and coming back to it as many times as you wish.
Course Curriculum
- Course Introduction - What to Expect
- Before Starting a Survival Activity
- Beginning a Survival Activity - Setting the Scene, Introductions, Safety Rules
- The 5 Survival Priorities & Rule of 3
- Differences between Bushcraft and Survival Skills; Expected and Unexpected Scenarios
- Logistical Elements of Survival Lessons
- Intro to Topics and Skills Section
- Setting up Camp
- Teaching Using Knives
- Teaching using Saws
- Leverage Snap Trick
- Fire Preparation
- Lighting fire with a fire steel
- Maintaining Fire
- Extinguishing and leaving fire
- Uses of Charcoal and Ash
- Raft Building
- Creating a Natural Water Filter
- Solar Still - Extracting fresh water
- Extracting water from plants
- Building a Lean-to Shelter
- Navigation by Sun
- Find South With Analogue Watch
- Making a Stick Compass
- Navigation By Stars
- Escape Navigation
- Going Unseen and Unheard
- Trapping (general)
- Fish Trap
- Pitfall Trap
- Hammock Trap
- Tracking
- Making an Emergency Stretcher
- Signalling
- Morse Code
- Setting Scenarios