Teachers who lead student trips want to make sure every child has access to the opportunity, which means being resourceful when it comes to finding financial support for families in need.
Scholarships and crowdfunding are great resources for raising the money needed to ensure everyone has the chance to participate.
Topics: How to Pay for Student Trips
School trips provide invaluable learning opportunities, but they also are an investment of both time and financial resources. Traveling during the fall months of October and November provides many benefits that will help your school group save both time and money.
Here are five, great reasons to take a student trip during fall.
Topics: Trip Leader Tips, How to Pay for Student Trips, Planning Student Travel
Topics: How to Pay for Student Trips
No school trip has ever taken off without the support of parents. Thinking ahead about their concerns will help you, as the trip leader, answer their questions and provide the reassurance families need to support the trip you’re planning for their children.
Here are ten things a trip leader can do to reassure families about the many benefits of a school trip.
Topics: How to Pay for Student Trips
Like many leaders of ovenight class trips, my level of alertness goes up when the sun goes
down. The kids often have had their fill of amazingly well-planned, educational experiences during the day and they are ready to let loose. And, while they won’t admit it, most are usually tired, emotional, and running on fumes - not the best combo for making “wise choices.”
Planning well-supervised nighttime activities that allow the kids to blow off steam and enjoy time with their friends will help you make the most of the evening hours of your tour.
Topics: How to Pay for Student Trips
Many teachers who work with a student travel company know that the experience could be better. We've learned this while listening to teachers who worked with other companies before NationsClassroom
They've told us that the right student travel relationship makes a difference and that by listening to their needs, we have made it easier to lead an educational tour for their students. We asked a few of our trip leaders to share their stories.
Topics: How to Pay for Student Trips
Educational tours are a great way for students to learn all kinds of lessons in responsibility, including how to earn and save money to help pay for the trip. Here are some suggestions for ways preteens and teens can invest themselves in the student travel experience.
Topics: Emotional growth of tweens and teens, How to Pay for Student Trips
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