Community -Based Learning

Learning in a community-based setting is extremely beneficial to children for many reasons. One reason is that it allows the children to get out of the academic environment and explore their surroundings outside of the school. This allows them to have hands-on experiences outside the classroom such as observing art in a museum, or taking in different cultural aspects of their community that might otherwise be overlooked. This type of learning is beneficial for the teacher as well, as it not only lets the teacher provide a different means for teaching, but it allows him/her to have their own experiences teaching and learning what works best for the children outside the classroom. Community-based learning allows for the teacher and children to explore different settings, different mediums that might not be available at a school and enables the classroom to meet new people and explore different works of art that can only be found within the community and not in the school.