...professional geographer, wilderness guide, environmental education consultant, medic, lecturer, businessman, and father...
CV
Barry Howard
Status:
Director & Chief Instructor, Hunter Outdoor Training
Senior Manager, 'The Asheldham Centre'
Project Manager: Merrylands Centre of Excellence for Outdoor Education
Qualifications:
Certificate in Education (Cert.Ed.) Eaton Hall College of Education
Bachelor of Education Hons. (B.Ed. [Hons.]) Univ. Nottingham
Chartered Geographer: C.Geog.
DCSF Qualified Teacher
Mountain Leader. (MLTE) Plas y Brenin
First Aid. HSE. 1986-2010
First Aid AED Operator & Oxygen
Mountain First Aid Qual. Plas y Brenin 1986 & Refresher
Awards, Accreditations, & Recognition:
Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society. 1974
University of Nottingham Scholarship to Univ. Bucharest
‘Outdoor Education Champion’ for determined and productive delivery in promoting excellence. Institute for Outdoor Learning
The ‘National Example of Good Practice in Outdoor Education’ proposed to Ofsted by The British Sports Trust.
Winston Churchill Fellowship Silver Medal awarded February 2002 for ‘Safety Research in Adventure Training, & School Educational Visits’
Highly praised in four successive Ofsted Inspections inc ‘Excellent’ standard.
Experience:
31 years as a classroom teacher.
Speaker, lecturer, Committee Chairman
Businessman: 'Hunter Outdoor Training' based in Leigh on Sea
Polar & Arctic expeditionary: trans-Greenland by dog sledge, southern Greenland, northern Norway. Sub-Arctic experience: throughout Iceland and mainland Scandinavia: All seasons. 33 years expedition work in Norway and Iceland mostly leading.
170+ residential explorations and expeditions as leader
3,000+ day-courses teaching outdoor education as leader
Eight years working freelance for the MOD as a Survival Instructor
Teaching 2500+ youth per year outdoor pursuits.
Former Head of Geography Dept The King John School 1981 - 1991
Former Head of Outdoor Education, The King John School 1991-2006.
Trustee ‘Adventure Unlimited’ charity Diocese of Chelmsford
Senior Manager, The Asheldham Centre, 26 bed residential centre near Southminster.
Youth Advisory Group Member: Diocese of Chelmsford / Bishop of Barking
Written in national media on outdoor education: 'The Times Ed Supp'., & 'Daily Telegraph'
Broadcast on BBC radio 2002-10
Adviser to government on educational visits safety
Managing EVNAR : the Educational Visits National Accident Register 1970-2010
Married, and father of three adult children.
Professional Memberships:
The Royal Geographical Society
British Mountaineering Council
Mountain Leader Training Association
Institute for Outdoor Learning
College of Paramedics
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