Forest and Nature Early Years Practitioner (FNP)

This focuses on designing safe and effective outdoor play spaces that enable structured risk.

• design outdoor play spaces to enable risk
• create outdoor learning environments geared for adventure and challenge
• structure risky play with assessment tools

This combines previously acquired skills to evaluate and create child-led, outdoor learning curriculum.

• critique mandated Ontario early year curriculums using an outdoor learning lens
• construct a teaching philosophy that aligns with outdoor pedagogy and practices
• develop a place-based child-led outdoor curriculum