Graduate Program

Educational Administration

Degree Name

Education Specialist (EdS)

Semester of Degree Completion

1980

Thesis Director

Robert V. Shuff

Abstract

Classroom teachers have traditionally used fieldtrips to supplement their curriculum and to enrich learning. To assist teachers of Community Unit School District Number Two to plan and to prepare for fieldtrips, a fieldtrip handbook was selected as the field experience for a Specialist Degree in Educational Administration. A report of the field experience and the handbook as appendix A combine to give the reader an in-depth understanding of the experience. The report was organized along the following lines: Introduction, Log of Activities, Selected Activity Analyses, and Summary. In the report the purposes and techniques in developing a fieldtrip handbook are discussed, problem areas are defined and analysed, and recommendations are offered to those about to undertake similar projects. The fieldtrip handbook, sample resource pages, a fieldtrip questionnaire, and a cover letter for the questionnaire are included in the appendices of the report. The fieldtrip handbook contains a table of contents, narrative sections dealing with associated topics (administrative policy and procedures, supervision, bus requests, parental permission, geographic and time limitations, follow-up activities…), an alphabetical and subject index, and listings of 72 fieldtrip sites. The fieldtrip listings were placed on resource pages (appendix C) and contained the following information: general classification of the business, person to contact, the position or title of the contact person, approximate grade level that would benefit most from the experience, limitations of the size of the group, time of year, day of week, time of day, and duration and frequency of the visit.

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