Social action: At work!!!!

1 month later.

About the course itself:

As we’ve learned in class: what we do in our free time to help others can really make the difference.

The teachers in the class remained the same: My mother Liliana montero: an experienced psychopedagogist with over 20 years of teaching, my cousin a 12 year old american school student and me. Plus there's allways at least 1 mother of the children during the duration of the class and when we take them back home.

The last four weeks have been pretty hard, Even if we make the 5 children come only 3 days a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, still they find every single thing we teach them useful. Not only for them but to share with others inside their community. They sit and try to pay attention to every single thing we said even if they are pretty playful sometimes.

The class it’s been move form 10 o'clock in the morning to 15, because we’ve noticed the children are more relaxed and calm at this time of the day (not all of them)

Brat, Nestor, Brian, Omar and Emily have spend a lot of time with us and we got to know each other pretty good. They have made some friends around my condo too and go out and play in the park in the pause time we give them.

Even if the kids have gained some confidence in themselves we still see some shy behavior and some awkward moments during class, specially when strangers come. (that’s why we try not to let other people be in the living room during class) Even though they seem to loose all this unconfidence when they are together, to help each other it only takes their presence and a smile.

About the Teachings:

As we can be seen as an official course because of the time the course we last we tried to include everything we’ve found useful for the kids in the class: vocabulary, oral expression, grammar, writing and drawing.

About the initial problems in the condo.

Things have cooled down around here as nobody has touch the course’s theme during the condo reunions and nobody has complained anymore this whole month. It all happened after we introduce the 5 children to the propietaries that showed up (I ask all of them to come but only 2 made it instead) and explained our teaching project.

About the reflections on what we are learning in class:

providing feedback in society by teaching others how to help themselves and others its crucial to our society to grow and to become more advance and auto sufficient.

For example we’ve teach the children the basic of writing, reading and talking. At the beginning we were trying to help these 5 children, and only to focus on them, but as time passed we’ve noticed that, meaby because of the interaction between us, the children and the mothers we’ve help them too.

We’ve noticed how the mom’s grammar and the way they express have improved since we started the course ( ex: they don’t make wrong use of the plural anymore : they’ve learn to say 1 dollar, 2 dollars instead of 1 dollar, 2 dollar, etc)

This means these 5 children are practicing with their mothers at home and by doing the home works that we give, we encourage the ladies to learn and to express themselves better together with their children.

This can generate a lot of good things in their community as the learning might spread fast every day as they practice with each other.

This could help them to get better works, to help them help others and to provide more opportunity to people that really needs it.