The Teaching Profession

1. Examine the goals of the K-12 curriculum. What goals of the curriculum
can be strengthened by conducting educational tours?

Educational tours mostly is concerned and appropriate with these goals

of the K-12 curriculum: first, Effective Communication Skills through
teaming, collaboration and interpersonal skills, personal, social, and civic
responsibility, interactive communication.
Second, Life and Career Skills through, flexibility and adaptability,
initiative and self-direction, social and cross-cultural skills, productivity
and accountability, leadership and responsibility.

2. Since you did not join the educational tour for any reason, suggest
ways on how your future students can still attain experiential learning
even without joining activities like this.
In experiential learning, the student manages their own learning, rather
than being told what to do and when to do it. The relationship between
student and instructor is different, with the instructor passing much of the
responsibility on to the student. The context for learning is different
learning may not take place in the classroom, and there may be no textbooks
or academic texts to study.

Experiential learning can come in many different forms, and can occur
both in and outside the classroom. Types of experiential learning that
students may be exposed to are:
Simulations and gaming/role-playing
When used as part of a course, simulations and gaming/role-playing
aim to imitate a system, entity, phenomenon, or process. They attempt to
represent or predict aspects of the behavior of the problem or issue being
studied. Simulation can allow experiments to be conducted within a
fictitious situation to show the real behaviors and outcomes of possible
conditions.
Volunteering
Volunteering allows students to serve in a community primarily
because they choose to do so. Many serve through a nonprofit
organizationsometimes referred to as formal volunteeringbut a
significant number also serve less formally, either individually or as part
of a group.
Competition
Students, usually a part of local or national teams, are introduced to
real world situations. Competitions allow students to apply the theories and
information they have learning in the class room to real organizations.
Debate
An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting,
often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other
decision.
These are just some of the types of learning by experience, it certainly
depend on the learners and teachers different styles in teaching and
learning.

3. Suggest at least 3 ways on how to entice students to join an

Educational tour.
Introduce the trip as a part of a lesson. Stimulate students interest for the
trip. Use artifacts from previous trips to this site such as photos, brochures,
or videos. Consider inviting students who previously participated on this field
trip as guest speakers to talk about their experience. Last, Develop a
schedule of activities or itinerary, games and other acts can stimulate and
excite students, learning different things in a different way on-site a historical
or famed places.