We specialise in providing Australian Schools with educational travel experiences much more impactful than your average school group tours. We extend students’ learning far beyond their classroom walls. With hundreds of destinations (explore them here!), there are endless possibilities.
Here at Rustic Pathways, we know that student success depends on much more than fact recall and content knowledge. To that end, we design experiences that actively develop positive character traits. These include:
We believe that purposefully designed travel experiences develop students who better understand complex issues. These students are also better prepared to take on modern global challenges. We strive to provide immersive travel experiences that shape students’ perspective of the world and foster a sense of shared humanity. It’s important to us to ensure that students go into the world making globally minded decisions.
We believe that travel experiences have a profound impact on who students become and how they view the world. This belief sits at the core of our program design. Believing that travel provides a unique opportunity for student learning, we intentionally design our programs to promote student growth.
Learn more about our Mission, Vision and Values.
We design innovative programs that help schools achieve their mission and live their values.
We admire the passion and vision of teachers. Allow us to partner with you and help create your legacy.
Our school group tours can integrate with your school curriculum and become part of the school culture. (Click here to read about our links with the Aussie curriculum.)
We help teachers to choose or design programs that meet their specific objectives. We also provide teachers with resources to help deepen their students’ engagement before, during, and after travel. We customise the activities and discussions and staff each program with the most capable Program Leaders to achieve teachers’ goals.
There are numerous ways we can work with educators to link their program to in-class goals. For example, we can suggest projects that complement our program experiences. We can also work with educators to integrate an existing project into the program experience.
Our staff are trained to facilitate thoughtful inquiry around the key questions and themes at the heart of our programs. By doing this work outside of students’ home cultures and communities, we have seen incredible learning outcomes. These include:
Our country teams work hand-in-hand with our partner communities to set up service projects. (Find out more about our community impact here.) These projects are based on a combination of community needs and students’ skill sets. We can connect your group to a program that best supports your school’s philosophy and goals. Many of our students obtain service hours through our programs. We will work with you to ensure any community service on our school group tours meets your school’s requirements. Community service often becomes a catalyst for students to reflect on larger issues. It is an opportunity to help them understand the responsibility they have as members of global and local communities.
With a shared vision for developing enthusiastic, compassionate, and empowered lifelong learners, Rustic Pathways experiences are fundamentally aligned to IB education. We believe deeply in IB’s framework of learning that encourages students to become creative, critical, and reactive thinkers.
We also believe in the power of students making connections between their classroom experiences and the global community. Rustic Pathways experiences extend students’ learning far beyond the context of their own school, community, or country.
Rustic Pathways is passionate about developing opportunities that can lead to a more productive, sustainable and compassionate society where people have the experience, tools and language to engage with and understand the world in which we live. Due to this we have developed the framework of a Grade 3 to 12 service learning program aimed at developing global citizens who have the values and cross-cultural competencies to build an equitable and sustainable future for all.
Rustic Pathways assists schools to build their own Grade 3-12 program that:
If you’re interested in exploring the option of setting up a long term service learning program at your school, let us know!
Interested, but want some more info? Check out our “How It Works” page for next steps.
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