Prepare to facilitate a study abroad program
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Organize and lead a college study abroad trip
This website will help you organize and lead a study abroad program for your CEGEP students. If this is your first time taking students on a study abroad trip, this website will help you design your trip, create pedagogically sound activities and evaluations for your students before, during, and after travel, and provide solutions to problems teachers often face when organizing overseas trips.
Trip design process
Connect philosophy, objectives, and needs
Recognize
problems
Brainstorm
trip ideas
Build
prototypes
Choose
well
Trip progression
Planning is cognitively overwhelming
Tweaking plans and adjusting previous models
Welcoming the unexpected in plans
Language teachers who are new to organizing facilitated study abroad (FSA) stand to benefit the most from this website. However, given the few resources available on how to plan study abroad at the CEGEP level, teachers who have some experience facilitating such trips will also find several of the sections helpful, as will teachers from other disciplines.
Our purpose in creating this website was to identify issues we and our participants raised over three years of research on study abroad, and to address these issues systematically based on findings in the scientific literature as well as the results of our own study.