Course Timetables

During the third of the seven EPT meetings held at Quinta do Vale da Lama in Algarve, Portugal, teachers from all over Europe extensively discussed various course formats for teaching Permaculture to beginners:

• Introduction to Permaculture
• Permaculture Design Certificate Courses (PDCs)
• Further Introductory Permaculture Opportunities

There are also advanced training opportunities  for Permaculturalists (who have a PDC):

• What: York Introduction to Permaculture Course
• When: 17-18 April 2004 
• Tutor: Andy Goldring

We will start promptly at 10am on both days, please try to arrive around 9.30 so we have time to settle in before we start. Bring food to share for lunch, magazines, books or other materials of interest, and warm clothes as we will be going for a walk on Saturday.

Saturday

Timetable (PDF) for the PDC held at Paddock Farm, Yorkshire (UK)

This is a course timetable for a PDc run in 2012 in Leeds by Andy Goldring. The course runs over 7 weekends, one weekend a month from February  till June .  Full timetable: Leeds_PDC_2012_timetable 

Here you can find linked a sample timetable (in PDF) of a 12-day Permaculture Design Course, as delivered by Graham Bell at The Red Shed - Garden College, in Scotland over 6 weekends.

Graham Bell also writes below about his ideas for a successful Permaculture course. He's been teaching permaculture over 25 years. 

Tätä ohjelmarunkoa on käytetty viikonloppukursseillamme 2012 alkaen Helsingissä ja Turussa. Ohjelmassa painottuvat osallistavat harjoitukset, luentoja on vain muutama. Säästä riippumatta vedämme aina osan sessioista ulkona.

Joel Rosenberg ja Tanja Korvenmaa

Below you can find linked a PDF of a sample 10-day intensive certified Permaculture Design Course, as delivered by Cultivate at Cloughjordan Ecovillage in Ireland. Irish PDC Sample Timetable (pdf)

A Winter School is described in the linked file that is run in  12 sessions of 4 hours (excluding travel) spread over 6 weeks. Design exercises in different contexts allow students to hone design skills and learn meta skills. The file is a course outline - a work in progress with some obvious items lacking such as student hand-outs and rubrics, to be updated as the course unfolds. Language: English File: Winter School Format - Design Course

The course aims at introducing the permaculture design concept so that each participant, at the end of the course, has a very good grasp of it and some very solid base to start to deepen their knowledge about permaculture, either by self-study or by attending a PDC.

Didactic analysis is a model to prepare an educational activity. It takes you through the steps and elements of the learning experience.