Educational Tour

Importance of Educational Tours 

 

 

Memories of school Educational Tours are among the most prominent of the formative years, largely because they are a welcome break in the routine for both students and teachers. While their purpose is essentially to educate, they can also be a fun bonding experience for everyone involved.

Reinforcement 

The Tours can reinforce what a teacher has been instructing in class about a subject and help students understand the topic better. 

Engagement 

Teachers turn Tours into mobile classrooms, instructing students to collect data, then quizzing them or assigning a project based on what they learned during the outing.

Socialization

Taking students into a new environment gives them the experience of traveling in a group and teaches them to be respectful of the locations they visit.   

Exposure

Kids get to visit a place to which they have never been before. This can be particularly advantageous to students who are less fortunate and don't have the opportunity to travel

Curiosity 

Students who go on Educational Tours find that they want to learn more about the subjects on which the Tours focused. 

Retention

The type of memories that Educational Tours create, called “episodic memories,” helps children retain information for longer periods.

Effect of Educational Tours on Studies

Educational Tours can give students exposure to places they might not otherwise visit.
Many schools, camps and institutions offer Educational Tours for students to spend several hours or days outside of the classroom. Educational Tours range from local visits to civic offices or businesses to international excursions, complete with overnight stays. Whatever their scope, Educational Tours can offer many advantages to the students who take them. 

Perspective

Part of how students benefit from Educational Tours is by gaining new perspectives on the world. This is especially true for more extensive Educational Tours where students travel farther away from home. By coming into direct contact with a different environment or even a new culture or language, students can better understand their place in the community and develop openness to differences in others.
Variety

Educational Tours also function to put some variety into otherwise regimented lesson plans. Instead of spending every day in the classroom, students get to learn in a new environment with new instructors. Educational Tours also may give students a chance to interact with students from other schools as they learn together or participate in group activities
Learning Styles

Educational Tours will often cater to more than one learning style, making them excellent teaching tools for certain students. Classroom lectures apply primarily to audio learners, who learn best by listening. Visual learners can benefit from visual aids, which exist in the classroom, but are much more frequent during a Educational Tours. Finally, for tactile learners, Educational Tours offer an uncommon opportunity to perform hands-on learning.
Classroom Supplement

It's important for instructors and school administrators to choose Educational Tours that augment existing lesson plans and synchronize with classroom learning. A Educational Tours that teachers choose for these reasons can serve to illustrate difficult concepts or extend the general natural of a classroom lesson by giving more specific information. The specialists who lead school groups on Educational Tours also may be able to provide professional insight from advanced study or direct experience that teachers could never provide alone.
Reward

Before a Educational Tours even takes place, it can begin to produce benefits for students. By not allowing students with behavioral or academic problems to participate in a Educational Tours, teachers can encourage good behavior and motivate students to work hard with the prospect of a Educational Tours looming as a reward. Even the most informative Educational Tours usually have an element of recreation, making them a time to unwind for all students. 

Advantages of Educational Tours 

Visiting the Historical places, watching wild life or asking a NASA Scientists about space travel are all possibilities for Educational Tours excursions that are stimulating and educational. One issue that is reducing Educational Tours opportunities is a lack of financial resources. Classrooms that are faced with budget restrictions should consider fund-raising programs or ask one of their school's local business partners to donate a portion of the funds. Consider a tour of a local factory, restaurant or bank that would require only transportation and meal costs to create an affordable Educational Tours and valuable community relations between businesses and students. 

Real-World Experience

Educational Tours provide an opportunity for total immersion in the natural environment and social setting. On such excursions, the student practices his social skills and critical thinking abilities outside of the controlled class setting. Being able to ask experts about their particular area of study on the spot requires thinking. He is able to learn real-world lessons.
Classroom Inspiration

A student who sees touches and smells historical relics, ancient artifacts and original sources of text becomes motivated to learn more in depth when he returns to the classroom. Educational Tour stimulates learning beyond what textbooks and videos can provide to the learning environment. This is not to say that all Educational Tours are equally stimulating, but those excursions that are well-designed result in higher levels of academic achievement in every subject of study. He is learning in an informal setting when on a Educational Tours that is directed by professionally trained staff, such as at a museum or science center. This allows all participants to learn without realizing it, which reaches more students from various learning backgrounds and styles.
Connection to Community

For low-income students or students who are new to the school, Educational Tours that take advantage of local resources promote community connectivity. For example, a student may not ever have the opportunity to visit a local park or bank, which is important resources within a community for both the student and his family. Students from non-English-speaking families or who have recently moved to the community get the chance to learn about the local area with the guidance of their school, as well as share the information with their family when they return home.
Educational Tours Guidelines

On any Educational Tours, the safety of students is by far the most important consideration. Follow guidelines to minimize the chances of an Educational Tours disaster.
Permission Slips

Hand out permission slips at least a month before the date of the Tours. To avoid having to hound your students until the last minute, consider offering a class reward such as extra recess time if all permission slips come back at least a week before the Tours.
Parent Chaperones

Send home a notice to parents explaining the educational objectives of your Tours and requesting volunteers 

Assign Numbers to Your Students

If you have a large group of students, consider assigning each student a number at the beginning of the Tours. Then, instead of checking off an attendance list or making a head count, you can ask students to call out their numbers in order in rapid fashion. 

  

"When someone is seeking... it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."

                                                               [ Hermann Hesse from Siddhartha]