"Study abroad!!" they said, "It'll be fun!!" they said. And they were right! I would like to believe that a good majority of students come into college at a university saying they would like to study abroad at some point. Unfortunately, many give up on that dream due to thinking there is no way financially [...]
After coming home and talking to family and friends about my experience abroad and in the schools at Cambridge, I was ale to reflect on some of the teaching styles and approaches I learned while in the field. If you did not see my first post, I was placed in a mixed Year 1/2 classroom. [...]
As week four came around, my friends and I quickly started realizing that, what once seemed like a never ending adventure, was now coming to an end and our lives back in reality was right around the corner. Therefore, we agreed that despite all the homework and assignments we had to focus on for completing [...]
The focus of the Cambridge Schools Experience program for undergraduates is to observe, practice, and reflect on effective strategies for teaching literacy. Additionally, because we are in a completely new environment, we must also take the cultural differences and differences of the school systems and curriculum into consideration. Some key things that I have noticed [...]
This weekend, four of my closest friends from the program and I traveled from our home in Cambridge to Edinburgh, Scotland. I was particularly excited about this because my ancestors from my maternal grandmother's side immigrated to the United States from Scotland. Before going on the trip, my grandmother actually told me that he was [...]
