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While You Are Here
ARRIVAL & ORIENTATION
When you arrive, please check in at our office before unloading. The coordinator will meet your group and assist you in getting them settled. Buses are unloaded at the bottom of the gravel road leading to the dorm. Note that park regulations do not permit buses to idle. Students carry their luggage to the dorm and wait for a teacher to coordinate bunks. Any vehicles remaining at the Institute should be parked in the small lot below the dining hall.
Once settled in the dorm, the group will meet for a brief welcome and orientation. Our staff will then lead a group orientation with students while all teachers and chaperones meet with the coordinator to review the schedule, health concerns and emergency procedures.
EVALUATIONS
Your feedback is very important to us. We will be conducting pre and post surveys with a small subset of your students and your lead teacher at the very beginning and again at the end of your stay. This information is vital to our ability to develop programs that positively affect both you and your students. In addition to these surveys, we ask all visiting adults to give us feedback prior to leaving on the quality of the program.
Evaluation forms are available in the Mountain Room. Please distribute evaluation forms
to all visiting teachers and parents and return them to Tremont staff prior to departing.
MEAL TIMES AND THE TREMONT FOOD WASTE PROGRAM
Meals are served family-style at Tremont with each student choosing what to put on their own plate. A full salad bar is available at lunch and supper each day with a cereal bar at breakfast in addition to a hot breakfast. A vegetarian option is available at each meal. In order to encourage the students to learn to lessen their impact on resources, we encourage reducing wasted food at mealtimes. This is intended as an educational exercise and not a competition between schools or tables. Please work with your students to challenge themselves not to waste food, but more importantly to learn the reasons behind waste reduction.
Meals also serve as community gatherings at Tremont. Announcements of upcoming class times and locations are shared at the end of each meal. Please feel free to add to this time with any messages to your group.
WEATHER
At 7:45am, the Tremont weather data is collected. Please send 5-6 students and an adult to the weather station, near the offi ce, each morning of your stay. Tremont staff will meet you there and lead the data gathering. Students will present data during breakfast.
DEPARTURE & CLEANING
We hope that students staying at Tremont have a chance to develop an attitude of thoughtful stewardship of the environment, and that such an attitude is evident throughout their experience at Tremont. We ask groups to do their best to leave the Institute as clean as possible. Each group must clean the dorm on the last morning of their stay. Guidelines for the dorm cleanup are posted on each floor and will be explained to group leaders during orientation. A set of cleaning supplies will be distributed on the last morning of your stay and a staff member will perform an inspection after the group is finished cleaning. If the group fails to pass the inspection, they must fi nish cleaning
or pay a $100 cleaning fee. Any damages to the facility will be billed to the group. In addition to cleaning the dorm, we ask that adults check other areas to ensure items are not left behind. Tremont is not responsible for any
lost and found items. Before leaving, please report any problems.
PAYMENT
During your visit, you must stop by the office to finalize your invoice. Payments do not need to be made at that time. All payments are due within 30 days of your visit.
Supervision Guidelines
The health and safety of students is our number one concern. We hope these guidelines are helpful and that you will help us to maintain these standards.
- We recommend 1 adult for every 12 students during class and 1:8 in the dorm as adequate supervision.
- No student should ever be without adult supervision.
- Students should be in the dorm only when adults are present in each wing.
- Before dismissing students to any area, the leader should make sure there is an adult who will be responsible for supervising those students.
- Keep your group together and make sure they are aware that they are your responsibility.
- If it is necessary to send a student to get something, have him/her take a partner. Do not send students off without an adult if they are away from Tremont or if they are in an unfamiliar area.
- It is the teacher’s responsibility to ensure that adults assigned to assist and lead hikes and lessons are properly prepared and qualified to do so. Training opportunities and visits can be arranged by contacting Tremont’s School Program Director. The following guidelines should be followed when assigning adults for leading activities:
- One adult is adequate for supervising a group if the group is smaller than 12 and activities will be conducted within a mile and a half of the Institute facilities and on established trails.
- Two adults are necessary for all-day hikes and activities that are conducted off established trails.
- No adult should be alone with one student.