Survey Time

 

I have really enjoyed my work so far this week. Yesterday I sent out a survey to the many members of the Hawken community, which asked them to reflect on their Hawken middle/lower school experiences. The survey asked current students and alumni the following questions:

What was your favorite Hawken field trip and why?

On a scale from 1-10, how do you think these field trips affected your lower school experience? (1= they were a waste of time, 5=indifferent, 10= I can't imagine the lower school without them!)

What do you believe to be the greatest benefit of experiential learning?

Any funny field trip memories?

What was your favorite long school trip?

Fill in the blank: Going on field trips teaches you ______.

      I am very pleased with the level of responses so far. It has been very interesting reading all the responses and comparing the thoughts and memories of each person. It is also cool comparing responses between graduation years and seeing how impressions differ from grad year to grad year.

    Almost all the answers have been very positive, expressing that field trips allow students to learn “beyond the text books,” and truly engage in what they are studying. Others have commented that they associate their lower school trips with serious bonding time with their classmates. I have really enjoyed reading the funny field trip memory responses as well; it is amazing to me that people have such vivid and detailed memories from events that occurred so long ago!