Improving Teacher Communication and Field Trip Preparation 

We have a website, we sent confirmation letters, we even had a video all to prepare teachers and make their field trip experience as seamless and pleasant as possible.  Sometimes, however, we would still have groups that showed up confused, nervous, or just underprepared.  Last year we introduced two new ways, one formal and one informal, to reach out to teachers and help them prepare for their field trips.  The goals of these new programs were to communicate more effectively with teachers in ways that work for them, give the teachers the power to improve their field trip experience, and to make group visits more efficient for our staff.  Join me to see what we have learned from this experiment so far.

Presented by Chris Grisham, K-12 Education Manager, TN State Museum