High Quality Outdoor Education - English Outdoor Council

Outcome 2: ConfidenceYoung people are gaining personal confidence and self-esteem through taking onchallenges and achieving success.IndicatorsThe young people you work with:• overcome their apprehensions to takepart in challenging activities,• want a second go at things they findchallenging first time,• succeed where before they felt theycould not succeed,• feel proud of what they haveachieved,• want to move forward to the nextchallenge,• talk openly about their successes,and their failures,• feel positive about themselves – havea ‘can-do’ attitude,• display more social confidence– ‘come out of their shell’,• feel they can make a positivecontribution to the success of theirgroup, school or club,• are able to recognise and modifyaspects of behaviour that may restricttheir own achievements.If you are providing high-qualityoutdoor education most youngpeople should be meeting orprogressing towards most of theabove indicators.9