Enhancing Learning Through Field Trips: A Comprehensive Guide
Explore the benefits and best practices of conducting educational field trips, from planning and logistics to implementing effective teaching methods. Discover how field trips provide real-life experiences, supplement classroom learning, and develop important skills and attitudes in students. Learn how to identify potential field trip locations, obtain permissions, arrange transportation, and create a structured plan for maximizing learning opportunities outside the classroom.
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Topic: Field Trip Technique of Teaching
To provide real life situations for first hand information. To supplement class room instructions. To serve as a pre view of a lesson and gather instructional material. To verify previous information, class discussion & to conclude individual experience. To create situational teaching for cultivating observation, keenness and discovery. To serve as a means to develop positive attitudes, values and specific skills.
The field trip must be planned to meet specific educational objectives rather than mearly a picnic activity. Plan field trip with a specific checklist (permission, transport, booking boarding, parental notification, safety & emergency arrangements). Plan a schedule & route plan for the field trip. Identify leaders & sub leaders. Assign responsibilities to individuals and make them understand their role. Have list of all candidates, contact numbers of people to be contacted in case of emergency & special needs. Submit report on field visit and analyse.
DEVELOP A PLAN FOR LEARNING FROM FIELD TRIPS What will be learned What teaching method will be used? IDENTIFY POTENTIAL FIELD TRIPS Look for the places that match learning, its relevance, affordability & feasibility. Places of visit could be sewage treatment plant, pollution control board. CONTACT WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY Obtain written permission from relevant authorities. ( Fee charges, guide for visits & state visit objectives). Fix the visit dates well in advance & include it in the time table. ARRANGE TRANSPORTATION Arrange bus or van or cars according to the number of students. Fix and communicate the time for departure from the college or the start point & communicate the same to the students.
Field trip enriches the classroom learning. Fiel trips provide an opportunity to the learners to get first hand information from natural settings. The monotony and boredom of classroom teaching is eliminated through field trips. Fiel trip gives natural stimulation and motivates the learner to be more interactive and creative. Field trips help learners learn things very quickly and remember them for longer of time. It provides an opportunity to solve the individual's problems by interacting with a group in a natural seting.
If the field trip is not planned well with specific learning objectives it will result in wastage of teaching learning resources. Field trips are expensive. Safety and security of the students is a real concern. If the sought permission is not got, the scheduled plan of the curriculum suffers.
