Lesson 11:Making the Most of Resourceful and Field trips

If I were asked to quickly list some instructional tools for teachers, I'd rattle off questioning strategies, concept mapping, and computers—but I doubt that field trips would pop into my mind. Many educators don't take field trips seriously because we associate them with fun. They also have their drawbacks: They're costly, logistically involved, extravagant with time, and contain an element of uncertainty. No wonder kids like them so much. Most teachers still take at least one field trip each year.


FIELD TRIPS AND OTHER STUDENT TRAVELThe Board recognizes that field trips, when used for teaching and learning integral to the curriculum, are an educationally sound and important ingredient in the instructional program of the schools. Properly planned and executed field trips should:

	A.	supplement and enrich classroom procedures by providing learning experiences in an environment outside the schools;
	B.	arouse new interests among students;
	C.	help students relate school experiences to the reality of the world outside of school;
	D.	bring the resources of the community - natural, artistic, industrial, commercial, governmental, educational - within the student's learning experience;
	E.	afford students the opportunity to study and explore real situations and processes in their actual environment.

For purposes of this procedure, a field trip shall be defined as any planned journey for one or more students away from District premises, which is under the supervision of an instructional staff member and an integral part of a course of study.
Other student travel shall be defined as any planned, student-travel activity that is approved as part of the District's total educational program.
The Superintendent shall prepare administrative procedures for the operation of both field and other District-sponsored trips, including athletic trips, which shall ensure:

	A.	the safety and well-being of students;
	B.	parental permission is sought and obtained before any student leaves the District on a trip;
	C.	each trip is properly planned, and if a field trip, is integrated with the curriculum, evaluated, and followed up by appropriate activities which enhance its usefulness;
	D.	the effectiveness of field trip activities is judged in terms of demonstrated learning outcomes;
	E.	each trip is properly monitored and supervised;
	F.	student behavior while on all field trips complies with the Student Code of Conduct and on all other rules, policies, and procedures set forth by schools;
	G.	a copy of each student's Emergency Medical Authorization Form is in the possession of the staff member in charge.

lesson 10:Demonstration in teaching

A demonstration is a teaching method used with both large and small groups. Demonstrations become more effective when verbalization accompanies them. For example, in a half demonstration-half lecture, an explanation accompanies the actions performed. It is a generally accepted learning theory that the greater the degree of active participation and sensory involvement by the learner, the more effective learning will be.

Demonstrations....

·         Utilize several senses; students can see, hear, and possibly experience an actual event

·         Stimulate interest

·         Present ideas and concepts more clearly

·         Provide direct experiences

·         Reinforce learning

Lesson 9:Teaching with Dramatized Experiences

Listening to storytelling or reading is an individual activity, even if the story is presented to a group of children; dramatization of a story is a collective activity. Dramatization of a story means that we are “inside” of events and not “outside”, as often in story reading activity. “the pupils can be liberate to explore, what they understand of the original author’s ideas, they can embellish, expand, create ones…They become a powerful community with the ability to solve problems and resolve dilemmas” (Toye & Prendiville, 2000, p18). Individual experience is juxtaposed with a social context in ‘acting out’ the story, which is very important for young children.

Formal  Dramatized Experience

    A. Plays - Depict life, character, or culture or a      combination of all three.

    B. Pageants  - usually community dramas that are based on local history, presented by local actors.

    C. Puppets – unlike regular stage play, it can present ideas with extreme simplicity, without elaborate scenery or costume yet effective.

Less Formal Dramatized Experiences

A. Pantomime – is the art of conveying a story through bodily movements only.

 B. Tableau – (French word means PICTURE) is a picture-like scene composed of people against a background.

 C. Puppets – unlike the regular stage play, can present ideas with extremely simplicity, without elaborate scenery or costume, yet effective.

Quite simply, a puppet is an inanimate object, constructed of wood, cloth, plastic, cardboard, papiermâché, or any other type of material, brought to life and personified by the puppeteer. The puppet does not need to look like a human being, rather it must act like one. 

This is the puppeteer’s job and it will be discussed later.

ex. of puppets.......

 Glove-and-finger puppets

Make used of old gloves to which small costumed figure are attached.

Rod Puppets

Flat cut out figures tacked to a stick, with one or more movable parts, and operated from below the stage level wire rods or slender stick .