For almost a decade, educational field trips have been part of the curriculum of education. It aims to visit various cultural institutions, which includes natural history, arts, science museums, theaters, historical zoos as well as other historical sites. Schools are enduring the disruption and the expense of providing educational field trips. It is because they saw that these kinds of experiences as the center of their education mission and that is for the school to exist not only as an institution that offers excellent academic programs, but as well as to produce civilized youths who will appreciate the culture and the arts. By having educational field trips, public and private schools viewed themselves as an excellent equalizer with regards to the access on our cultural heritage.
These days the enrichment of educational field trips is being declined. Museums all over the country have reported that there is a steep drop in the conduct of school field trips. The decision behind this situation reflects a number of factors. Financial aspects pressures and forces the schools to make hard decisions concerning to the allocation of scarce resources. Aside from that, educational field trips increased the view of it as an unnecessarily frill. The focus on raising the performance on reading and Math can also lead the schools to cut the conduct of school field trips. Some schools believe that the time of students should be spent more inside the classroom in preparation for exams.
When a school organizes a field trip, they merely choose to take the students on a trip that will reward them for the hard work that they have in order to improve their scores in exams rather than by providing cultural enrichment through field trips. Some schools also take students to sporting events, amusement parks as well as movie theaters instead by taking them to historical sites and museums. It has shifted from enrichment to reward kind of field trips that is reflected in the generational change that is among teachers with the purpose of these kinds of outings.
If schools are not emphasizing the cultural educational field trips, that have relatively have a little evidence concerning about how educational field trips can affect the school performance of the students. In addition, a research said that by conducting field trips, students learn to become quiet. Generally, the enrichment of educational field trips contributes to the improvement and developments of the students to become civilized young women and men who have a lot of knowledge to arts, with stronger thinking skills, displays high tolerance level, with historical empathy and have a great taste in the consumption of culture and the arts.
Education truly has a wide range of techniques on improving the capacity of the students to learn. Field trips concerning to education is a god way for the students to learn as well as to appreciate the things that we have in our nation. Even some schools do not require this kind of school activity; still it is helpful for the students.
