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Attitude Of Senior Secondary School Teachers Towards Education Field Trip In Biology
[ILORIN METROPOLIS]
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Informal Learning Environment
Educational trips provide valuable educational opportunities ways from
the classroom, without using textbooks and other tools used in a normal
school setting. Students on Educational trip destination has staff
members who do hands-on teaching with visiting students, such as at a
science center or historical museum, the students will be excited to
learn from someone new. (Cunningham, 2010).
Fun: No matter how much
students learn during a fieldtrip, their favourite memories may be based
on their enjoyment of the day. Getting away from school for a day or
even half a day is always exciting for students, and fieldtrips are
always highly anticipated. Students will have fun with their friends and
they also may return to the classroom with a renewed focus on their
school.
Perspective: Part of how students benefit from educational
trips is by gaining new perspectives on the world. This is especially
true for more extensive fieldtrips where students travel farther away
from home. By coming into a direct contact with a different environment
or even a new culture or language, students can better understand their
place in the community.
Learning Styles: Educational trip will often
cater for more than one learning style, making them excellent teaching
tools for certain students. Classroom lectures apply primarily to audio
learners, who learn best by listening. Visual learner can benefit from
visual aids, which exist in the classroom, but are much more frequently
during a fieldtrip. Also, for tactile learners, Educational trips offer
an uncommon opportunity to perform hands-on learning.
Variety:
Fieldtrips also function to put some variety into otherwise regimented
lesson plans. Instead of spending much time in the classroom, students
get to learn in a new environment with instructors. Educational trips
also may give students a chance to interact with students from other
schools as they learn together or participate in group activities.
Classroom
Supplement: It’s important for instructors and administrators to choose
Educational trips that augment existing lesson plans and synchronize
with classroom learning. A fieldtrip that teachers choose for these
reason can serve to illustrate difficult concepts or extend the general
nature of a classroom lesson by giving more specific information.
Reward:
Before an educational trip even takes place, it can begin to produce
benefits for students. By not allowing students with behavior or
academic problems to participate in a fieldtrip, teachers can encourage
good behavior and motivate students to work-hard with prospect of a
fieldtrip coming as a reward. The most informative fieldtrips usually
have an element of recreation, making them a time to unwind for all
students.
Robinson (2012), Corroborating Vogel (2012)expressed the fact that fieldtrip is an important pedagogical method that:
(i) Bridge the gap between education and hands-on experience.
(ii) It is a crucial tool for every student to acquire increased knowledge, culture and help to shape their future.
(iii)
It gives students the opportunities to be cognitively and challenged,
as they explore areas of personal interest and curiously in a
bidirectional communication with each other and adult facilitators.
(iv) Reinforces previous classroom lessons and brings a higher level of realism and believing.
(v) Promotes a clearer understanding of the world, its working and relationship.
Rosenberg
(2014) Opined that students who are involved in real biological
concepts at firsthand, have better grasp of the subject in contrast to
the factual textbook approach. Tang (2013) also agreed that a well
conducted fieldtrip could provide a firm basis for understanding
reality, encourage critical enquiry and gives students a sense of
personal achievement. Lynn (2012) also maintained that fieldtrip
promotes the spirit of adventure in students and teachers, give teachers
and students the opportunity to ask questions from experts and
resources person across during the visit. Fieldtrip provide
entertainment for students and serves as a powerful motivator for them.
It broadens the students horizons to become acquainted with new values
and ideas.
Vogel (2013) posited that fieldtrip is an essential and
stimulating part of all biology students in senior secondary school. He
identified the following importance of fieldtrip to effective teaching
and learning of biology:-
(i) Taking the student of biology out of the classrooms provides students with essential practical experience.
(ii)
Give students of biology the opportunity to witness first hand,
interaction of people with plants and animals in the ecosystem.
(iii) Helps to develop students biological skills in teamwork and independent thought.
(iv)
Serves to illustrate biological ideas and methods introduced during
teaching, seminars and tutorial. The benefits of fieldtrips cannot be
overemphasized. Traditional fieldtrips are an important teaching tool.
Field trips are the viable method of extending the traditional classroom
environment to outdoors.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT The study investigated the attitude of senior secondary school teachers towards education field trip on biology in Ilorin metropolis. The researcher used simple random sampling techniques thirty schools were randomly selected as research subject. A questionnaire tagged,†school based attitude of senior secondary school teacher towards educational field trip†was one of the instruments used to gather information from the respondents. A series of interviews with 30 secon ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]APPENDIXUNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE EDUCATION.ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS QUESTIONNAIRES ON BIOLOGY FIELDTRIP Dear Sir/Ma,You are kindly requested to complete this questionnaire that is designed to elicit information on attitude of secondary school Teachers in biology fieldtrip. Your sincere and accurate responses to the question below will be highly appreciated and will be used strictly for research purpose. Thanks.SECTION APersonal information ... Continue reading---
Appraisal of Literature Reviewed - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Appraisal of Literature ReviewedThe reviewed literature have shown that the attitudes of senior secondary school teachers and students toward educational fieldtrip in biology is encouraging thereby enhancing the educational standard. It is not gainsaying to assert that fieldtrips were valuable for students cognitive and affective develop. It is important that schools recognize and support teachers in the use fieldtrip opportunities to facilities achievement of learning outcomes.Bezina (2014) pos ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 3 ]Statement of the problem The urgent need for using fieldtrip as part of teaching pedagogy to make the teaching of biology more meaningful, pragmatic and comprehensible cannot be overemphasized. Recently, different reasons have been given for the fall in the quality of education in Nigeria. Thus, poor funding incompetence among teachers, poor service delivery among different educational bodies in Nigeria, poor maintainance culture and lack of enthusiasm or hesitation of teachers to embark o ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHOD This chapter is concerned with the description of the procedures used in gathering relevant data for the study. Specifically, it focuses on the following sub-headings:Research Design Sample and Sampling TechniquesResearch InstrumentValidation of the Instruments Procedure for Data Collection Method of Data AnalysisResearch Design The research type used for this study is descriptive design. This method allowed the researcher to make careful record of what was observ ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]From table 3, the calculated r value of 0.325 is greater than the table value 0.196 at 0.05 level of significance. The null hypothesis is therefore rejected. Hence, there is significant relationship between students attitude to fieldtrip and academic performance of students.Clerk (20120 confirmed that improved students attitude toward fieldtrip especially in science subjects enhance learning activity and ensure effective delutlery of educational products. Researches and global classrooms are rev ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Limitation of the studyThe study is limited to finding out the teacher attitude to educational fieldtrip in biology in some selected senior secondary school within Ilorin metropolis other local government area in the state are not reached due to time and fund constraintsSuggestion for further studiesBeside the attitude of teacher towards fieldtrips in senior secondary school in biology in Ilorin metropolis, other researchers many extend their finding to area like.i. Attitudinal dispositi ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCESAcademic Fieldtrip Policy (2012) understanding teachers perspective on fieldtrips united State. Brisbans publisher.Adewale, O.B (2011) Fieldwork and Science Teacher Lagos Emas PressAlasi, y (2012) Democracy and Education Ekiti. Yemon Publishers.Brecker, M (2015) Planning and Evaluation of Fieldtrip to Informal Learning Environment Lagos Area Publishers.Coffer, D.M (2013) The Importance of Fieldtrip a Biological Experience Journal of College of Science Teaching 16 (180)17-20Davidman, ... Continue reading---
