I’ve started my new social project, my porpoise is to teach the basic subjects to the children (sons and daughters) of the cleaning ladies that lives in my condominium.
For now there are 4 children and they teachers are: my mother which is a educational psychologist with lots of years of experience and as her assistant my 12 year old cousin which studies in the american school of Guayaquil so she will be alphabetizing in the area near the school pretty soon.
We started a few weeks ago on Wednesday 20th by gathering these children at about 10 o'clock in the morning in my apartment's living room.
The children are brat (9yo), nestor (10yo), Omar (9yo) and Emily which is 6
On this day we introduce the teachers and they started teaching them the really basic things such as reading, the alphabet, the colors and numbers.
Eventually I will post the course's teaching program.
We make a pause about 1.30 later the class started this brake took 30 min.
After the brake we give the children some crayons and we ask them to start dawning, after about 1 hour our first class finished.
For the record this are a few things I noticed:
The children are shy, which is normal, but more than that they seem to feel uncomfortable as if they feel they don't fit in the place (they try not to touch anything or even put their hands on anything unless we tell them to do so).
Their moms wanted to pay us or to start cleaning the house even if we told them it was totally free they were uncomfortable with this idea.
The mothers were very suspicious about leaving their children in my place even if my mother, my cousin and another apartment owner were there all the time while the class lasted.
We continued with the classes for Thursday and Friday and the next week (25 - 31 may)
We ask them to come 3 days a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
On this week we had only one new child that was friends with one of the cleaning lady's son, his name is Brian and he's 10.
So the class has now 5 children
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Jean - What is your role in your project?
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ResponderEliminarSounds interesting!
ResponderEliminarWhat you think about those childrens?
well, theese children are really awesome, I'm actually learning more from them like it might seem.
ResponderEliminarTheir feelings, their ideas, and most important
they behaviour amazes me, it helps me understand why we adults act some ways instead of another, it all comes from the childhood!.
In the class I try to teach them that there's not only the world their family show them, there's a lot of differenc cultures and way to see everything, so we try to make them undrestand that, even if they are just kids, we try to do it the most basic way possible.