Visiting a Current Volunteer Couple

This is Tomi. She is serving in the CBOD role (the same program as John's-CBOD). John went to the office with her today and was able to see her in action. One of the nice things about being a couple is that you can help each other on projects or making teaching materials or maybe an English camp. Visiting current volunteers is a great way to have a window into our future.

Here is one great teacher! Got to visit his school this morning and watch him in action with a 6th grade group. They respect him, like him, and have learned bunches in the process. Boy I hope I can do half as good a job.


Here is a good example of a product from an English camp. Derrick whitewashed the wall the day before and then had Tomi and some fellow volunteers free hand an outline of each continent. The students painted in each continent. You can't see it but on either side of the map there are handprints of each student who participated. They made their handprint using the color paint they used to paint on the map. Below each handprint is the student's name.
For each volunteer assigned to a school there is a Thai co-teacher. Derrick's co-teacher has saved the results of each project from past day camps. They are all displayed on the walls of the classrooms where Derrick teaches. I have taken copious notes in the hopes that I may be able to duplicate some of his successful ideas during my assignment.

This is a conversation board. The words can be put up out of order or just straight. Students can take parts or possibly a full sentence. And while they are doing it they are also having fun. This approach seems to help them remember the material better.