Activities to construct bases and develop courses for study travel. Yesterday, our journalist learned that in order to carry out out-of-school education activities combining learning and travel experience through travel and accommodation in groups. Including City Education Bureau, Municipal Civilization Office, the city of the new Canton Bureau, City Tourism Commission and so on, 11 departments jointly issued a document which made a pilot program study travel for the city's primary and secondary school students to participate.

　　In this program, access criteria, exit mechanism and evaluation system should be sound established. We encourage the city departments and units to play their own advantages and integrate various types of resources to construct bases suited for the program, including traditional cultural education, the revolutionary tradition education, national conditions education, national defense and science education, and natural ecological education. And all of them are identified. We should create a number of perfect local investigative study travel lines graded by grades in Yichang. Bases are responsible for development of theme courses of investigative study travel, where they should set up teams for course development, highlight the characteristics of this way of learning, close to the students and compile and print course materials provided to students.

　　All primary and secondary schools should develop a detailed investigative study program at the beginning of the school year which needs overall consideration of integration with the school curriculum and comprehensive practice activities to ensure clear purpose, lively activities, and effective learning, to avoid " travel without learning" and vice versa.

　　Travel should be carried out in grades or classes, which managements, school doctor or hire medical staff should be accompanied and each class should be equipped with 3 teachers, all arranged by schools. In general, the program will be carried out in the annual 3-5 months and 9-11 months in Yichang. The cumulative time of junior grades is 1-2 days, high grades 3-4 days in a primary school year, mainly to rural nostalgia; in Junior high school, it includes 4-5 days, mainly according to the county situation; and in high school it’s 5-7 days, mainly according to the provincial situation. This program is not arranged on holidays.

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　　How to select students for this program Travel agency and

　　City Tourism Commission and City Board of Education are to co-write Plans of Selecting Proper Travel Agencies for Yichang Primary and Secondary School Students’ Study Travel Program, which clarifying selecting criteria and assessment mechanisms. Through the declaration, review, publicity, listing and other procedures, a number of qualified travel agencies are to be selected and made known to the public.

　　Parents participate in the whole process of study travel

　　It is demanded for all local schools to strengthen and perfect the system of parents' committee, which all levels of class, grade and school should establish. And parents are invited to participate in the whole process of study travel to give full play to the role of parent committee.

　　Study travel evaluation mechanism should be established

　　A complete study travel evaluation mechanism should be established, which is to focus on student behavior, teamwork, activity design and plan, organization and management and coordination, problem solving, information collection and processing. All of these behaviors should be taken into the comprehensive quality evaluation system for students and the quality of school education evaluation system.(Journalist: Caoyu)