Travel Tips I Have Learned As A Teacher
Group travel is fun, but here are some things to keep in mind for both adults and students.
I am a middle school history teacher. I also work with a company that provides travel opportunities for students. I started working with them in 2018 and have taken students on two international trips.
Friends and colleagues always question my mental health whenever I get ready to make one of these trips. Not only do I deal with middle schoolers for nine months out of the year, but I voluntarily take a group of them out of the country where they will be with me the whole time? Am I crazy?
Well, maybe a little. I am a middle school teacher, after all.
In reality, it is a fun and rewarding experience. The students learn much about other cultures while enjoying a possibly once-in-a-lifetime experience. My favorite thing a kid tells me when we are winding down a trip is not, “If I ever come here again,” but “When I come here again.”
The kids that would be troublemakers don’t go on trips. They know I can bring the hammer down when I need to. One of my students told the others, “Don’t make him use the MR. HOWARD voice.”
Now that the world has opened back up and travel restrictions have been loosened, it is…