Into my first week working with the Passaic River Institute's summer camp for 7th and 8th graders from Inner city, NJ and loving it. Did I get what I "expected" thus far? Alright so I admit that I did come in with expectations, whether intentional or not. Is it negative or positive that they were or were not fulfilled?
Neither, really. It is an experience. Both the students and myself are learning. I love it when I can learn from the students as well.
The racial population is quite different from what I had expected to see, but often the geography and social extensions of a city can affect where people of different backgrounds and cultures choose to settle and live.
So our group is fabulous on week 1 and a potentially quite controversial question: does this have anything to do wih their race?
NOT YET COMPLETE
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About Me
- UrbanEveEdublogg
- I am currently entering my second year as a Graduate Student at Montclair State University and working as a Graduate Assistant at the ADP Center for Teacher Preparation & Learning Technologies on campus. I was born and raised in North Jersey's "suburbal plain" with 1 younger sister and 1 younger brother. I graduated from the University of Delaware in 2003 with a BS in Wildlife Conservation, minor in Art and have worked for several nature centers and environmental groups since, including New Jersey Audubon Society, San Joaquin Outdoor Education, Skylands CLEAN, and Tenafly Nature Center. With a passion for nature and the environment, love of the outdoors and a strong desire to serve and work with children and provide a vehicle to change lives, I aspire to embark on a journey to learning in the realm of Earth Science with my future students.
1 comment:
So glad you are blogging again!
The group in wonderful because it just is! It could be terrible no matter what race as well.
You could believe it is wonderful and wish it to be wonderful and it would be. You could think it to be awful, you could believe it to be awful, and it would be.
You want them to be a great group and they are a great group.
Have fun.
M
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