The day has come to officially start working together with the educators from South Africa and D.C. that we have been emailing with over the past few months. We all started off by getting together and working through a few issues we found in our own schools. Each of us gave a little insight into where our schools were located, what they looked like in terms of structure and how long we had been in the education system. We were all over the board which helped us find out what we could fix and focus on. It was amazing to hear about the issues that we all shared in our classroom even across the world. The education systems between the U.S. and South Africa are so similar and even though we had read about it before arriving, it had such a bigger impact hearing it from educators in their own country. There wasn't a single moment of silence, we all were sharing information and working together and even ended up doing an exercise with each other to show how important it is to collaborate with each other, which is what we ended up focusing on.
We worked until lunch and then tried to wrap up how we wanted to present our information and tried to sift through the many solutions and problems we discussed. We all left feeling so excited for the next day and I personally felt lucky to be working this wonderful group of educators. Working with them definitely jumpstarted my excitement for the rest of the trip and made me realize just how much I was going to learn from the days to come.
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Rebekka
7/29/2018 10:04:18 am
I felt privileged to be in the room with you all!
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Study AbroadThis June I have gotten the opportunity to travel to South Africa to observe policies and practices of the education systems. I will be working with students and educators from the U.S. and South Africa on a Changemaker Project. Our hope is to bring awareness to the different types of diverse learners in the U.S., South Africa and all over. Archives
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