TDW 2021 Paper Presenter 10

Esma Kartini Haji Emran has been in the teaching industry for 18 years. Cikgu Esma Kartini together with her colleague Cikgu John Fletcher were the first to introduce the Cambridge International Travel and Tourism A Level subject in Brunei Darussalam. First introduced in Pusat Tingkatan Enam Meragang in 2011, Cikgu Esma Kartini has been striving to find different ways in motivating students and finding innovative teaching techniques in teaching the subject. With this, Cikgu Esma Kartini found that experiential learning had been an effective tool in promoting the subject and achieving the subject’s lessons objectives.

Abstract

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: AN EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH IN TEACHING CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL AND TOURISM AS AND A LEVEL STUDENTS IN PLANNING AND MANAGING A TRAVEL AND TOURISM EVENT

Strand: Pedagogy

Experiential learning helps to facilitate students to critically think and to be creatively engaged both in the classroom and outside the classroom settings. This paper investigated the effectiveness of the experiential learning approach at enhancing students’ understanding of content and improving their interpersonal skill as required in the Cambridge International Travel and Tourism AS Level paper 2 coursework project. This paper documented the students’ learning journey from pre-planning stage to the execution of their project as well as reflecting the outcome from their whole experiences, which eventually helped them gain confidence in their ability to solve problems. The main finding is that there was an improvement in students’ Paper 2 AS level results after the experiential learning approach was applied. Furthermore, all the learning processes from experiential approach have helped the students to become life-long learners, who are able to self-direct their own life-path and their educational endeavours.

Keywords:
Experiential Learning, Active Engagement, Travel and Tourism.