Are you bored of teaching students in the classroom with textbooks and sitting on an uncomfortable chair? Are you tired of students forgetting your lessons even you make a detailed, lively and passionate speech? Yes! The best solution will be field trips! They are different type of learning and they can take place for every subject students are learning. Not only that but they are also not that expensive. So why not have more field trips in our school?
When students are learning in the classroom with textbooks, they will be distracted easily and lose interest. Field trips can give students as well as teachers a break from learning in the classroom. Also, by seeing real-life application of the lessons that they are learning in school, such as seeing how technology skills can be used to make movies for tech class; this will help to increase student’s interests and encourage them to learn more.
Field trips also connect classroom lessons to real-life experiences. Students can take it upon themselves to learn anything they missed in class. And field trips are critical tool for creating episodic memory. The experiences enable students to create powerful memories that they can recall the rest of their lives. For example, if the students are learning English Literature, the school can organize a trip to a National English Literature Museum. The real historical relic, photos, movies can give students an impressive record.
Also nowadays more and more people believe that only having knowledge is not enough for a person to be successful. Sometimes, social skills are much more important then the knowledge. Field trips let the students learn about the outside world in real life, it can help them to improve their social skills like teamwork, giving.
Field trips can help increase student’s interests, create long-term memory for them, and improve their social skills. The school definitely should increase the number of the field trips in each