Keeping Up With Individual Students

• This is one of the most common challenges teachers face when supervising students on a field trip. This is even more daunting if there is just one teacher on the trip, trying to oversee numerous children. Be sure to call attendance at various checkpoints throughout the day. This avoids getting on the bus to go back to school, only to find a child is missing and you aren't sure how long he has been gone.
  
  

Discipline

• When students are excited about going on a field trip, it can get the best of them. That excitement may manifest into forgetting about general rules and good decorum. They may be more hyperactive than usual or have a harder time focusing on following field trip rules. Teachers may have to continuously remind students to behave and impose harsher penalties than usual for misbehaving, since students are expected to behave better in public.
  
  

Resolving Conflict Between Students

• Because they are not in as structured an environment, students may easily have conflict among one another. Teachers may have a hard time trying to manage that conflict while keeping up with other students on the trip. To combat that, offer students an incentive, such as the most well behaved gets to choose the first seat on the bus ride back or all students that behave well on the trip get a treat in class the following day.
  
  

Ensuring a Learning Experience for All

• Because of all the extra attention that teachers must pay to students to ensure no one gets left behind or there are not conflicts on-site, it is difficult to ensure each student has a good learning experience. The best way to overcome this challenge is through the use of parent chaperons or other teacher helpers. This allows you to assign each of your adult helpers a group of children, so you can focus on the learning aspect of the field trip.