Planning a tour? Make sure you ask these important questions...
▪️ Is your school touring program educationally robust, meaningful, inspirational, linked to the curriculum you teach and custom designed to engender true learning outcomes and support classroom teaching?
▪️ Does it include subject related, real world, experiential learning activities that engage your students? Does it expose students to subject experts and potential future careers?
▪️ Does it offer travel/unique learning opportunities for your whole secondary school?
▪️ Are identified/unidentified risks being properly mitigated through careful education and planning. Is your tour program planned out over a 2 or 3 year cycle so that the school, teachers and parents all know what opportunities will be offered at each year level well in advance?
▪️ With ethically grey areas surrounding Service Learning tours, have you considered alternatives?
▪️ Does your school have tours that have been running for many years, which are not regularly reviewed for their educational merit, or risk, in line with current best practice?
▪️ Do you have a best-practice risk management system in place so you can confidently run safe tours and programs for your students?
Trainer, Manager of Industry Relationship and Engagement - Tenancy Skills Institute
9moAnother great tip guys