feild trips
We take a feild trip with the students about 2mths before they are ready to go out on their own. This seems to help them get excited to get done and futher on with their career. They seem to take on a good attitude and I feel it helps them to work harder and stay focused the last few mths of school.
Hi Shane:
Filed trips can mean many things and involve as much or little as is available or degree of effort. I'd ask myself, what is it that my graduates do and where do they work. Those locations and settings would the first place to start. Then, I'd look at secondary locations. If the primary location is a restaurant, then I'd look for seconday suppliers: bakery; meat markets; linen and table suppliers.
One (of many) ways to get started is to take a piece of paper and draw a circle in the middle of the page, big enough to list all the places your graduates end of employed. Then, like spoke on a wheel, extend a "spoke" that idenifies a location related to one of the locations located inside the circle. Then, draw another spoke, and so on and so forth. With a little effort you should be able to get some intial ideas that will serve as a good starting point.
Regards, Barry
I would really enjoy field trips any suggestions on how to get everyone and things organized to go
Hi Judith:
I agree as well. Students will remember things they see and experience in a field trip that they would never remember if it was just discussed in the classroom.
Regards, Barry
I completley agree, I think feild trips opens the students' minds to new ideas of how they can implement their prior knowledge and what the have learned to their the real world situations.
Hi Jana:
Field trips are a tremendous stimulus to students, exciting them and while exposing them to the real world dynamics of thier chosen profession. It's a great way to break up the regular doldrums of regular classroom lessons.
Regards, Barry
