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What is Educational Travel?

What is Educational Travel? Educational travel is a carefully planned combination of tours, site visits and hands-on learning opportunities, built around clear learning objectives. An educational tour is more than a vacation. It’s a tool for learning and success with fun and excitement built in. By walking in the footsteps of emperors, seeing the art that inspired a society and speaking a foreign language to communicate, students are engaging themselves and becoming life-long, self-directed learners.

Group Leaders – Teachers Who Travel for Free

Group leaders are typically teachers (though they don’t need to be), and as the name suggests they lead their group of travelers overseas. Group leaders choose a tour itinerary or work with their international program consultant to customize one. They recruit a group, prepare them for the trip, and while on tour, provide supervision, educational leadership and handle any necessary discipline. Understanding that this is a bit of work, group leaders travel free when they have a group of six or more student participants. Most companies allow first-time group leaders to travel free with just five participants. Group leaders are also eligible to receive extra rewards such as attending global conferences (free trips abroad without their students), cash stipends and more.

Assistant Group Leaders – Additional Teachers or Parents who Travel for Free with Every Additional Six Participants

As the volume of students in groups start to grow, so does the task of supervising all of them. That’s why we offer free trips to additional teachers to help chaperon the group with every six additional students who join the trip. They’re there to help impart teachable moments, handle discipline or simply be an adult when situations occasionally call for that.