Lesson 11 Making the most of community resources and field

Making the Most of Community
Resources and FieldTrips
By: Allan S. Tomaquin
Regine Delos Santos

Have you gone through a field trip?
. .
What do you suggest to improve
a failed field trip?

Objectives:
Enumerate the procedures and criteria that must
be observed in planning and conducting field trips.
Learn the educational benefits of having a field
trip.
Know the community resources that can be
utilized for learning.

Planning a Field Trip includes three steps:
Preliminary planning by the teacher and
preplanning with others going on the
trip.
Taking the field trip itself.
Post-field trip follow up activities.

Preliminary planning by the teacher

1. Make preliminary contacts, a tour on final
arrangements with the place to be visited.

2.Make final
arrangements with
the school principal
about the details of
the trip: time,
schedule,
transportation
arrangements,
finances, and
permission slips
from the parents.
Date and
Time
Schedule
Transportation
Arrangements
Finances
Permission
slips

3. Make a tentative route plan, subject to later
alteration based on class planning and objectives.

4. Try to wok out
mutually
satisfactory
arrangements with
other teachers if the
trip will conflict with
their classes.

5. Prepare preliminary lists
of questions or other
materials which will be
helpful in planning with the
students.

Preplanning with others going on the trip

1. Discuss the objectives of the trip and write
them down. The main objectives should be
included in the permit slip given to parents
and should be consulted later when the trip is
evaluated.

2. Prepare a list of questions to send ahead to
the guide of the study trip.

3. Define safely and
behavior standards for
the journey there and for
the field trip site itself.
4. Discuss and decide on
ways to document the
trip. Everyone is
expected to take notes.

5. List specific objects
to be seen on their
way to the site, on the
site of the field trip
and on their way home
from the field trip.

6. Discuss appropriate dress. Comfortable
shoes for walking are important.

7. Before the trip, use a variety of learning materials
in order to give each student a background for the
trip. For example, by viewing a film, a slide set, or a
still picture unit dealing with housing standards and
conditions, a class maybe better prepared to learn
through a visit to an actual slum area.

Other people accompanying
the group need to be oriented
on the objectives, route,
behavior standards required
of everyone so they can help
enforce these standards.
These may be parents who
will assist teachers, other
teachers and/or school
administrator staff.

1. Discuss route
map of places
to be observed.
2. Upon arriving at
the destination,
teacher should
check the group
and introduce the
guide.

3. Special effort should be made to ensure
that:
-thetripkeepsonthetimeschedule
-thestudentshavetheopportunitytoobtain
answerstoquestions
-thegroupparticipatescourteouslyintheentire
trip
-theguidestickscloselytothelistofquestions

Evaluating Field Trip
Could the same benefits be achieved by other materials?
Was it worth the time, effort, and perhaps extra money?
Were there any unexpected problems which could be
foreseen another time? Were these due to guides,
students, poor planning, or unexpected trip conditions?
Were new interests developed?
Should the trip be recommended to other classes
studying similar topics?
These are questions we can ask after the field trip
to evaluate the field trip we just had:

Educational Benefits
Derived
The acquisition of
lasting concepts and
change in attitudes
are rooted on
concrete and rich
experiences.
Fieldtrips are
opportunities for
reach and
memorable
experiences which
are fundamental to
learning that lasts.
Field trips bring us
to the world beyond
the classroom.The
real-world
connection is more
work but the
benefits of
broadening teaching
beyond textbooks
far outweigh the
little bit of time it
takes from a
teacher’s schedule.
Field trips have a
wide range of
application. It is not
meant only for
children, it is for
adults also. It is not
only meant for the
social science
subjects, it is for all
other subjects as
well.
It can bring about a
lot of realizations
which may lead to
changes in attitudes
and insights.The
field trip “can
nurture curiosity;
build a zest for new
experience, and a
sense of wonder.”
(Dale 1969)

It is costly.
It involves logistics
It is extravagant with time
Contain an elements of
uncertainty.
Disadvantages of FieldTrips

These can be persons and places in the
community. For persons, let us not go too
far.
Let us begin with the
parents of our students.
Many of them can be are
source speakers in their
fields of expertise.
Community Resources

A dentist may be invited to talk to the
children on how to care for their teeth.
A journalist may serve as resource
speaker on the parts of
a newspaper and
how to write an
editorial.
Community Resources

A senior citizen and a war veteran in the
community may be invited to class for an
interview on a topic of which he is expert, say
for example, his memories ofWorldWar II.
A barangay captain may be asked
on what the barangay intends to
do to curb the rampant alcoholism
among the youth in their community.
Community Resources

The Field Trip: A bridge of the
school and the community

Field trips abolish the “walls” that divide the
classroom and the outside world. Field trips also
connect people. All people involved in the field trip –
students, teachers, parents, school head – come
together for joint planning. Resource person in the
community are brought to the school as key
informants in an interview by children or as lecturers.
Why not open your school to field trips? We lose
nothing when we open our school doors to parents,
officials, and other members of the community.
Instead, we gain this support and cooperation. They
are rich learning resources.

Lesson 11 Making the most of community resources and field

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