Field trip
Travel to school, even school trip, school trip or educational transition, is a collective term for
- Schul-/Klassenfahrt: All classes and a class a school leave for a period the school
- Schul-/Klassenwandertag: All classes and a class a school are on a school day on a day trip or educational transition
- Stay in a country house, school sports days, school trips and the like
- Multi-day excursions and field exercises
- Traveling abroad or exchange journeys in the course of teaching
The names differ according to regional ties and state.
Objectives and General
In the foreground a school trip is the shared social experience of the class - to distinguish them is the lesson passage ( excursion), which is used to achieve learning objectives through direct observation. However, the boundaries are blurred. For the term school trip includes hiking or traveling with a prescribed educational goals and appropriate preparation and post-processing.
Often schools and teachers organize school trips with the aim that the students get to know each other better. This goal has been expanded with experiential educational school trips, including individual learning / self- experiences, social learning in group processes and ecological learning include. The supervision of schools approved school trips with purely tourist purpose and goals ( beach stay) generally do not. Exceptions are final drives, which are used primarily to provide a divergent class a farewell. Similar function has a graduation trip / graduation trip, but which is often organized by the student body itself.
Basically, these things are school events and are subject to how the lessons of compulsory attendance. Staying at a school camp is usually associated with teaching events.
Limits for a class trip cost and number of trips can be arranged by the school conferences.
To enable students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds to participate in paid events, there are many schools contributes to a school club, the financial aid. However, if the school association charitable, he may not only promote individual students. Instead, school trips and excursions are supported for the entire class. There are also officially support for the funding of school trips and school camps stays on receipt of benefits under Hartz IV (ALG II). These costs are paid in addition to the control performance. Another way to financial support, the local and district associations of the various charities (German Red Cross, Workers' Welfare Association (AWO ), Joint Welfare Association, Social Service Agency, German Caritas Association ), hold at the partially funds for these purposes. Lastly, there are in different states and social funds to support the participation of children from financially disadvantaged families in school activities.
Germany
The Ministers of Education (KMK ) decided in 1983 Recommendations for the educational importance and implementation of the school hostel stays on September 30, which triggered the decision of 21 January 1953 on the " walking school " starting. The decision objectives are defined and offered advice on the preparation and execution. The decision will be implemented in the provinces usually in a special hiker passage or adoption journey or in regulations adopted.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, is the name school travel, school camps or Full day. This refers to the company when a class trip goes on. The school trip usually takes place in the spring. In contrast, there is the autumn migration, the original location as possible should take place within the canton. For this, the parents of the children will be allowed up to 17 - are used Sfr per day. The " participation in school trips and excursions, sports days, days of skiing, class camps, project weeks and the like is mandatory. "
Austria
School events are regulated in SchuUG, § 13. The students ' participation in school events without regard obligated to whether the event takes place within or outside the school property, unless ..... with the event an overnight stay connected outside of the residence. "