Feeling Broke Lately.... me too. But then today as I was hanging up my clothes I heard some change jingle in the pocket and being to lazy to take it out I just hung the jacket up forgetting about the change. And then I got to thinking about how fortunate I am, and perspective came swooping in. The world isn't like this, fortunate like the life I live. And I don't just mean the distant world around us I mean the one right out front my local grocery store where a man trying to get off heroine sits begging for change. Pardon me for being cliche and ideal but I too am begging for change. Change in the world that is which is part of the reason I am so amped to teach social studies. To me it is a forum for societal change, and perhaps that is problematic for some and I do invite criticism. The world is a wondrous place but there are many terrible things going, deaths, murders, wars, homelessness.. and the list goes on. So my question is what are you going to do. Correction what are we going to do. How are we really going to get our SS classes involved in the world? How are we going to motivate them to be conscious world citizens, What creates that spark and how can we foster it?
I don't have all those answers and perhaps like much else in this program no matter what we TALK about about the action comes from trial and error implementation.
I was thinking that during my practicum I m going to search within my school for causes that are being explored via students groups and school programs, and get involved in those. Or find causes that are under represented and make my own club.
What are other people thinking about doing within their classrooms and as part of the larger school community??
Thank you for your time
L.
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One link to the community that I saw in my practicum last spring that I thought was a great idea, and a great initiative set forth by the school and students, was an event called the Night Walk. Twice a year this school would make bagged dinners, and then take the students down town to give the dinners to homeless, starving, or people of less fortune. I understand it is only twice a year that they do this, but I still think it is an initiative that allows students to understand their ability to have an impact on the global community, and help bring awareness about these issues to their parents and friends.
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