Reflect

Practical Matters

To help ensure that the trip results in an experience that has an impact back in the classroom, here are a few practical items to keep in mind:

• Build in time and funds for post-visit follow-up.
• Make attendance at post-visit workshops a requirement for participation in the trip.
• Share expectations about creating a lesson or lessons based on some aspect of the trip that ties into state standards.
• Schedule follow-up with content providers before the trip or while you are on site.
• Ask content providers for resource materials to assist with post-visit activities.
• Provide content providers with email addresses for all participants and provide participants with emails for content providers so that they can follow up with each other.
• Subscribe to listservs, Twitter feeds, and/or Facebook accounts of content providers to sustain relationships. Encourage your teachers to do the same.
• Build in time and resources for teachers to evaluate the program.