Organizing a trip for your students is 200% worth it, not just for them, but also for you.Educational trips abroad or to other states can provide a learning experience no classroom can. For those moments when you feel like it’s all taking a bit too much of your time and effort, read on reasons why students need to go on an educational tour.
Effective Learning From Real-World Experience
Effective Learning From Real-World Experience
These activities develop the critical-thinking ability of students and make them innovative thinkers. Diversified cultural immersion also helps students learn new languages.Whether students take language lessons during their time abroad or can experience language only in a real-life context. Traveling an overseas trip is an excellent opportunity for them to practice their language skills, especially understanding and speaking communication abilities. These are often skills that can be challenging for teachers to incorporate lessons in their language regularly, and often do not exceed the skills that usually bother students most at the end of school exams. A trip abroad gives them a unique opportunity to receive extensive practice.
Better Exchange of Ideas
Group discussion is one of the best ways of learning. An educational trip offers the perfect informal set-up for vigorous group discussion.Students can group discussions with new people of the original location with their friends, classmates, and peers. It reflects students' interest in studies, helps to identify their identity, and makes them more active to form their knowledge part.
Learning About Local Culture
Teaching your students about the culture of the country is one thing; They feel that this first-hand is a completely different thing. Living the experience is not only very easy to understand for students but also makes it much more enjoyable and fun. Reading in a coursebook about local customs never means much to a student unless they have the opportunity to be part of that culture and live it.
Better networking skills
As students travel to new and different places, they interact with different people. Interacting with Native and other students during service-teaching trips offers a lot of opportunities for students to develop social and intellectual skills. It helps them make new friends. Sharing some experiences provides a strong bond and friendship between people and allows them to reclaim experience with others repeatedly in the future.
Atlantis Research organised and conducts educational tours in all parts of the country. If you’ve been looking for a tour operator for your next school trip, get in touch with us.