WST3500
Adopt a School
For this project I will be volunteering my time at an inner city school. Due to the tremendous cut backs I will be assigned to a specific class where I will help the teacher; prepare lessons, grade, papers, clean up, and anything else that he or she may need help with. This project is targeting age and ethnicity.
This project will be done through the elementary school. I always been about giving back to the children of the community and helping mainly in the education systems in our communities. So far I have been given the contact information to the director of this program (I am still waiting on a response form her) I am said to start Nov7th until I choose to stop. The community that this elementary school is in is the same community I grew up in. It's not the best community especially when it comes to the youth. Children are exposed to drugs, prostitution, and criminal activity (most of which goes on directly across the street for the school). I feel like by me alleviating some of the pressure off of the teachers they can focus on actually teaching their students. I also feel that I would be a good role model for these children in letting them know that just because we come form this neighborhood doesn't mean our life and dreams have to be limited.
I will be working as an individual on this project, and my goals are one to help my former teachers (my way of paying them back for some of the class clowning I use to do =) ). My second goal is to help the parents of them community, I want them to be reassured that their children are receiving a good education. My last and most important goal is to be a role model to the children of my former school and show them that I came from where they are, I sat in the same seats and lived in the same hood and I still had the same opportunity to go to college and get a very good education, and have a good paying job and explore and do new things.
This course is about getting involved with our community and being a positive active member and I truly believe that me being able to help with the youth of my old community will do just that.
Adopt a School
For this project I will be volunteering my time at an inner city school. Due to the tremendous cut backs I will be assigned to a specific class where I will help the teacher; prepare lessons, grade, papers, clean up, and anything else that he or she may need help with. This project is targeting age and ethnicity.
This project will be done through the elementary school. I always been about giving back to the children of the community and helping mainly in the education systems in our communities. So far I have been given the contact information to the director of this program (I am still waiting on a response form her) I am said to start Nov7th until I choose to stop. The community that this elementary school is in is the same community I grew up in. It's not the best community especially when it comes to the youth. Children are exposed to drugs, prostitution, and criminal activity (most of which goes on directly across the street for the school). I feel like by me alleviating some of the pressure off of the teachers they can focus on actually teaching their students. I also feel that I would be a good role model for these children in letting them know that just because we come form this neighborhood doesn't mean our life and dreams have to be limited.
I will be working as an individual on this project, and my goals are one to help my former teachers (my way of paying them back for some of the class clowning I use to do =) ). My second goal is to help the parents of them community, I want them to be reassured that their children are receiving a good education. My last and most important goal is to be a role model to the children of my former school and show them that I came from where they are, I sat in the same seats and lived in the same hood and I still had the same opportunity to go to college and get a very good education, and have a good paying job and explore and do new things.
This course is about getting involved with our community and being a positive active member and I truly believe that me being able to help with the youth of my old community will do just that.
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