Hobgood and Richardson said, “The world is your classroom. Learning can — and should — happen everywhere. Field trips have been a part of education for thousands of years. But valuable learning experiences outside the classroom are not trivial to plan, execute, and follow up on — let alone to pay for or to convince a principal or superintendent that they’re valuable. But despite these challenges, a carefully planned and integrated field trip offers tremendous learning potential for all students.” In regards with the quotation mentioned above, I am obliged to answer the question thrown to me – “What’s your preferred FTS model? And why?” I’d give you Model A as my answer to that question. Let me share you my thoughts of why I chose that model. First and foremost there were three things that I considered before I finally decided to choose model A among the four choices offered. I considered the three E’s: Experience, Education and Expenses. But before that, let me tell you a story.
Early February of this year, I joined a class meeting together with other Information Technology and Computer Science students that would like to enroll themselves in this semester’s Field Trip and Seminars Course. On that note, let me tell you that on the same month last year I also joined the same meeting but I was not able to enroll myself for some reasons related to academic load units. But already on that moment I was encourage to choose model A, but this time with further and clearer explanations I firmly stand on my decision of still choosing the model A. On both meetings the discussion run through about the course itself entitled as Field Trip and Seminars, what happened on the previous batch’s field trip, the minor and major field trip, the Y4IT, the cost and expenses, the election of the newly set of officers for Field Trip and Seminars batch 2014-2015 and of course the words and wisdom given by the facilitator of this course about the Do’s and Don’ts and many other stuffs in preparation for the field trip this coming September. By the way, on that election I was the elected as the class treasurer who is responsible for holding huge amount of money of my colleagues and I am quite nervous for the responsibility that I have. With all the persuasions and encouragement during the meeting, it was clear to me that choosing the Model A is quite risky but still I had the heart of pursuing it. What does model A offers that affects my final decision? I thought thoroughly about the place, the plane, and the IT companies and of course the fun part – the Enchanted Kingdom. But like I said beforehand, I considered three things for making up with my final decision. For someone like me that does not go around elsewhere in the city without having full approval with my parents, I would like to take this chance to experience something unusual. I had traveled by land with my sister and that’s one great experience but this time, I’ll be on a plane plus there is no one blood related to me that will accompany me but only my classmates and facilitator. It would be my very first time to ride on a plane. For me, this would be the time that I’ll help myself start to be independent and also start to open my eyes to the real world by experiencing all this first times. Manila is a big city but not bigger than our own city. Knowing that this city has more IT companies around its area, the field trip would best take place in Manila since this course aims to help us (students) to learn more from outside our classroom by visiting those few chosen IT companies. With that idea, company visit and seminars would be a different but an effective way (I hope so) of educating us students. From different speakers from different IT Companies especially the known and famous companies, I best believe that I’d be able to ponder some knowledge from the professionals. Although I know that other than Manila City, there are also IT Companies that are found in other cities but those cities has less number of IT Companies than in Manila. So I thought of it that it would be great that the field trip would happen in Manila so that we can visit companies as many as possible. Although I know the expenses for this Model A is transparently big, I’d like to the take the risk of spending big money for an educational trip like this. With all the reasons I have said from above, it would be worth it to take this chance and opportunity to go to Manila and visit IT companies even though it would be risky and expensive.
See? I think Model A is worth it. To end this all, opportunity starts with taking chances and taking risks. And to meet these opportunities you must wander to experience the joy of exploring and discovering what the world has to offer.
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