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Students recording a teaching trench
Teaching

Field school

Students learn context recording, drawing, and finds packing. Supervisors sign every sheet. The file is written so a later crew can continue the trench without starting over. Teaching is not an excuse for an unusable archive.

Typical durationA posted season — often several weeks
Field stationJerusalem, City of David
TestCan a later crew continue the trench?
LicenseStays with the holder

What this is

A field school that cannot lodge an archive taught a holiday. Students learn to write a context, draw, photograph, and pack. Supervisors sign every sheet. The trench is a real file: a later crew should be able to continue it. The license holder stays the license holder. We do not treat students as unpaid monitors without training, and we do not leave the season in a stack of unsigned notebooks.

What you get

  • Signed context sheets, drawings, and photographs
  • Finds packed and numbered for the named archive
  • A file another crew can continue
Students recording a teaching trench
Field school · Jerusalem office
How we work

Written before the first context.

  1. 01

    Teach on the sheet

    Context, drawing, photograph, finds packing. Not a lecture that never reaches the trench.

  2. 02

    Sign

    Supervisors sign every sheet. Unsigned notes are not in the archive.

  3. 03

    Lodge

    The season closes as a file, not as a memory. Boxes and list go to the named store.

What to send

A first note does not need a full brief. This is enough to start a scope.

  • How many weeks, and how many students
  • Who holds the license
  • What the students must be able to do on the last day
  • Where the archive lodges

What we will not do

Said here so it does not have to be discovered on the trench.

  • We do not run a school with no archive at the end.
  • We do not put untrained students on a machine as monitors.
  • We do not take the license away from the holder.
Questions

On Field school

Can we bring our own students?

Yes. Write with numbers, weeks, and who holds the license. We will say what supervision the archive requires.

Is this academic credit?

Credit is your university’s decision. We produce a field file. We do not issue degrees.

Ask about Field school.

Site or district, what you already know, and a deadline. We reply by email from Jerusalem.