Tuesday, August 23, 2011

European educational tours for children is a good idea

School managements are organizing local and international trips for their children. The main reason for these school trips is to give the school children a glimpse of the outside world. When at school, most school children learn and understand what the teacher teaches. School children have access to internet and other media, which will give them a virtual glimpse of the outside world.

Visiting a place and learning about its cultural heritage and history creates a sense of belonging for that place. When school children are exposed to different areas, they learn more about those places in an interesting manner. Most educational school trips are expensive so school managements search for school trips organizers who can take their school children at reasonable costs.

The FLIP project encourages local students to become involved in communal & charitable giving in Gibraltar. Visit http://www.flip.gi for more information.

School trips organizers would generally charge on a per student basis and the cost of the educational tour will vary depending on the area. Places such as Paris and Rome may be a little to expensive for an educational tour, but the students can learn a lot when they visit such places. Travel agents are different from educational tour operators — the latter is also into education.

That means in addition to the tour planning, the educational tour operators would plan to educate the school children. The objectives of an education tour have to be culled out before the school students are sent for the educational tour. These objectives are generally decided by the school management and the parents may also be involved in the objective or goal setting exercises.

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