Week Nine Field trip Learning Strategy

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Links Home ICT Management Paro College VLE Paro College RUB Education	Teaching Strategy Field trip Learning Strategy - Field trip is defined as a course-related activity that serves educational purposes and occurs outside of the classroom at a location other than on the campus at which the course is regularly taught. Features of field learning Facilitate the learning of abstract concepts: Taking students on a field trip makes learning more effective as they will be able to gain vast ideas on the topic. Motivate students through increased interest and curiosity: Field learning can add variety to the regular classroom instructional program and they tend to be special and enjoyable learning experiences. As a result, students will develop positive attitudes in students toward related classroom activities. Increases student-student and student-teacher social interaction: Field learning provides an opportunity to involve students, parents, and the teachers in the instructional program. Develops social awareness: Field learning makes students aware of learning activities in everyday life. For instance, visits to supermarkets or shopping malls are typical field experiences, which teachers may fail to notice. A well-organized trip to a "normal" place is an excellent method of teaching students to observe, ask questions, and learn in the large classroom. Types of Field learning Instructional learning An instructional learning is a visit by a class or group of classes to a location outside the regular classroom, which is designed to allow the students to achieve specific course objectives, which cannot be achieved as efficiently by other means. An example of an instructional field trip is a visit to botanical garden to study about different kind of flower. School contests or festivals A school contest is an extra campus activity, which provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills developed through subject area instruction. Contests, competitions, festivals, or evaluations may involve teams of students from more than one class or subject. An example of a school contest, festival, or evaluation is the school level essay competition. Motivational learning trips A motivational trip is an extra-campus activity, which is not a part of a scheduled class. It provides a motivational incentive for the school, club, group, or class and is related to improving the school climate. The procedures in this guide are for instructional field learning. If you are planning a motivational trip, please note that this requires approval from the General Area Director. An example of a motivational trip is an end of year visit to Buddha point by a student body. First a teacher must choose the kind of trip to take and then decide on a general location for the trip. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Purpose of field learning 1. Hand on experience -Field strategy allow for actual tactile experiences. Which means it is a key to learning strategies as no matter how much the lesson is challenging, students are able to be in the presence of knowledge and increases their retention. - It also helps the student to learn from actual hand on experiences, rather than by simply reading or hearing about something. 2. Cooperative learning Field learning strategy takes a group of students to work in the group or as a team where the individuals can shares their points about the topic that they have got. 3. Explore new environment Field learning strategy helps the students through different varieties of learning modalities like visual and tactile learning as it provides the students to see, hear and touch thing they might not otherwise explore in the classroom. 4. Building background knowledge It also helps the students to build a body of background knowledge to use later in their educational careers. 5. Anticipation No matter how interactive the classroom or how good the teacher, students often get bored in the classroom. For that field trips will give a break as well as it entices their curiosity towards learning the lesson. 6. Facing the real world - It enriches the lives and experiences of the student by taking classic rote learning in to the real world. - Involvement in a real world experience makes learning more meaningful and memorable. Principles Intellectual excitement is probably the most powerful motivating force for students and teachers alike. Stimulate the curiosity of the students, channel it withinstructured frameworks, and reveal their own intellectual interests. It unequivocally leads to greater learning and cognitive development of the students. Provides the students with stimulating experiences that enable them to realize the value and knowledge of their skills in external settings. Provides students with a vibrant intellectual experience embedded with knowledge. An intensive research and knowledge transfer culturepermeating all teaching and learning activities. > The students engage with industry, the professions and the broader community, taking their knowledge – which has its origins in research - and experiences to the world. > It is fundamental to the students for acquiring the skills of critical thinking. > A process fundamental to students ’learning how to learn’; that is, how effectively process and apply both their present understandings and giving them a framework and skills in near future. > Provide students with unique perspectives and solid understandings of how knowledge is created and used. A vibrant and embracing social context > It is believed that through FLS student develops a stimulating and encompassing social context that spills over from the classroom into the broader life. > Brings students together for the purposes of study, such as collaborative team projects and peer tutoring, to enhance learning. > Students’ experiences in external settings as they engage in knowledge transfer activities which can also add significantly to the vibrant social context offered by FLS. > Serves to broaden and strengthen networks with both the individual student and class as a whole. > FLS is committed to learning being embedded within a strong social context and to providing a rich social and cultural environment. An interactive and culturally diverse learning environment > Involves interactivity and intercultural experience for the learners (learning requires openness to difference and challenge). > Interactivity and culturally diverse setting provides special opportunities for intellectual broadening and requires students to have particular openness to their viewpoints. > Provides all students with a wealth of opportunities to see how knowledge in different disciplinary milieu is produced and applied, and knowledge transfer experiences that > The individual students feel supported and learn to explore difference with civility, honesty and fairness. Explicit concern and support for individual development. Students learn in different ways and at different rates, and their understanding varies considerably according to personality, background and particular talents. So, FLS contributes to creativity and the generation of new knowledge. Field learning gains individual attention and serves as assistance in developing their understandings. Provides appropriate opportunities for one-to-one interaction. Learning cycles of experimentation, feedback and assessment. > Structuring and integration of new information into existing cognitive systems. > Students need some freedom to experiment with knowledge without the educational process in its entirety ( ‘trial and error’). > Vital way of consolidating new knowledge in which one can attempt to use it in new situations, either theoretically or practical applicability. Role of a teacher 1.To select the site(appropriate and meaningful selection) 2. Teacher act as facilitators(overall need for the trip and for the students) 3. To give necessary information before, during and after trip beforehand to misconvinence To make necessary arrangements • To seek permission from principal, teachers, site host and parents • Transportation issues • Budget and food. Role of the students Activate participation Have to be a good listener Should be corporative Behave properly Procedural steps for field trip learning 1. Before the trip • Identify objectives and plan of evaluation for the field learning. • Select site to be visited and arrange date and time. • Conduct pre-visit to familiarize yourself with the major features of the field: to find out it educational, contact person and mobile numbers. 2. Logistics Planning • Apply for administrative approval and file requisition for transportation. • Decide how to assign their learning during the trip and develop schedule list for the day. • Arrange special equipment’s like cameras and collect money for admission fees if the site demands. • Inform parents about the trips and take sign concern from the parents. • Create a list of student names, phone number and name for emergency contact and fist Aid box. 3. Field Trip Preparation/Pre-trip discussion • Discuss the purpose of the field trip. • Show photographs or posters of the site. • Set a standard conduct and discuss money usage, lunch plans, dress code and other necessary things. • Discuss what observations to be done and how to gather information. • Overview the field trip schedule. • Check all the permission slips the day before the trip. 4. During the trip-The Field Trip • Tell them do’s and don’ts of the trip. • Count the number of students. • Check equipment • Tell them help each other if they need. • Let students towork in pairs or in a small group. Dos and don’ts of the trip Do’s • Let children always be in groups. • Tell them to co-operate well in the public. • Good behavior on transport. Don’s • Don’t let them wonder. • Walking, no running Don’t let them misbehave 5. After the trip-Post-field Trip • Let student to share their observations and reactions to field trip experiences. • Create classroom bullet in board displaying materials collected while on field trip. • Let class to compose thank-you letter to those who helped during the field trip and to person who took you for the trip. 6. Evaluating Field trip • What was the unique educational value in this trip? • Did students meet the objectives? • Was there adequate time? • Was there adequate staff and adult supervision? • What might be done differently to be better? • What points to be emphasized next time? • What problems should be addressed in the future? Advantages i) Better Grades and Understanding Field trips can result in greater achievement in all subjects. By seeing real-life application of the lessons that they are learning in school, children might be more likely to understand and appreciate the importance and relevance of what they are learning. ii) Exposure to new things Children learn about different professions, ideas and opportunities when they travel outside their own neighborhoods. A field trip can awaken the desire in a child to try new things and pursue previously unconsidered dreams. iii) New learning environment Field trips also allow the students to learn outside of the classroom. It offer the opportunity to teach the students something new. iv)Real life experience/Hands-on learning One of the biggest advantages to field trips is that they allow students to have a real-world experience School trips are typically designed to support a student's classroom learning experience. A school trip is an ideal place to allow the student to see real-life applications of academic lessons. . Moreover, some field trips integrate actual assignments for students to investigate during the trip. v) Team building Many field trips combine educational content with team-building activities, such as working together to clean a stream that has been polluted. In fact, it is often a good idea to go on a field trip early in the school year to help create a bond between the students. vi) It enhances the culture exchange. Field trips helps each individual to exchange and share their individual’s views moreover they will get accustom with the outside environment. Disadvantages Planning A disadvantage of field trips is that they take an incredible amount of planning. Collection of consent forms and money is normally done by the teacher and adds to an already-packed to-do list. We must make sure that every child has a signed permission form. Organization Many schools prohibit certain field trips due to costs, safety issues or lack of chaperones. It can prove difficult to organize a field trip and make arrangements for students who cannot afford to go, collect parental consent, budget the transportation needs and find enough parents who will supervise. Behavior/Rules and Structure • Students may be tempted to wander away from the group, misbehave on the bus or become loud at a museum. Kids need detailed instructions from their teachers and parents before the field trip ever starts. • It can be challenging to control an entire classroom in new surroundings. It may be difficult for students to focus on the lesson if they are excited about spending a school day outside the classroom • It is externally difficult to carry out especially when it requires long distance • It may be a waste of time and resource if not well planned.
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