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DR. MAHESWARI [email protected]
DEFINITION• Field trip is an educational
procedure by which the learners obtain first hand information by observing places, objects, phenomena and processes in their natural setting.
PURPOSES
• 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.
GUIDELINES FOR
USING FIELD TRIP AS A TEACHING
METHOLOGY
• 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.
• POINTS TO BE CONSIDERED BEFORE A FIELD TRIP
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.
PLANNING & ORGANIZING
TAKE ESSENTIALS REQUIRED FOR FIELD TRIP• The student should have diary,
pen to record the observations made in the field trip.
• Other resources like, camera,money, clothing are to be planned.
TO A NATURAL SETTING
TO DISTANT MEDOWES
FISHING OUT
TO AN INDUSTRY
TO A FOREST
TO A MUSEUM
TO THE WOODS
TO A FARM
TO A ZOO
ADVANTAGES• 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.
DISADVANTAGES • 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.
THANK YOU