Field Studies Instructor

PGL offers residential Field Studies courses to primary, secondary and A Level guests. Using your knowledge from your Environmental Science, Geology, Geography or other relevant degree, you will work with a group of up to 12 children or teenagers, taking sole responsibility for their Field Studies sessions.

With the centre and surrounding areas of scientific interest as their classroom, your group will have the chance to search for freshwater invertebrates, dress up as historical characters or discover fossils of organisms that sunk into the Jurassic mud over 160 million years ago!

All study units are as practical as possible with groups working largely outdoors. Pocket PCs and digital cameras help them to collect data so they can write up and present their findings at a later date; often whilst on centre.

There are some fantastic opportunities to work in our higher level Field Studies courses in Iceland, the Swiss/French Alps, the Ardèche and our centre on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. These opportunities are generally offered to those individuals who show particular aptitude during their time working in our ‘core’ areas.

In addition, we run physics and chemistry based Science courses, Maths courses and ICT courses, all aimed at primary school groups, which you may be given the opportunity to teach.

Our Field Studies Instructors are also trained to deliver our core land-based activities including abseiling, mountain biking and climbing so you can lead these sessions when not on field studies duty, such as during the peak school summer holiday weeks.

The time split between study course sessions and leading activities will vary dependent on the centre. At key times of the season, you could lead field studies sessions full-time, including off site excursions, whilst at quieter times of the year, you could be leading more land-based activity sessions.

Field Studies Instructor start dates for 2010: Feb 12, Feb 18 or August 3.

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