A Tour at the Akron Art Mueum

May 5, 2008

A few weeks ago, one of my ESOL students asked if we could take a trip to the Akron Art Museum.  Now, since we don’t have buses, I am sometimes nervous about going on field trips (Plus, perhaps insanely, if I drive, I worry about being liable), but since the museum’s just across the street, […]

Challenging Students in Class

May 3, 2008

Honestly, I’ve been rather fortunate.  Almost all my students in my GEN Y GED class (basically always in my ESOL class) participate in class without question.  And if they’re reticent at the beginning, I usually win them over quickly or wear them down with constant “highly-suggested volunteering”.  But what do you do with a student […]

Summer Time!!!

April 24, 2008

Everyone loves summer time.  We try to play and avoid work as much as possible.  But then, when we come back to classes in the fall, we’ve forgotten everything we’ve worked so hard to learn.  Project Learn is offering classes throughout the summer at the Akron Summit County Public Library in downtown Akron.  We also have […]

A Trip to the Peanut Shop in Downtown Akron

April 24, 2008

Today, my morning ESOL class and I went on a field trip to the Peanut Shop on Main Street.  Initially, I’ll have to be honest, I just wanted to do something fun.  While my class, as many of Project Learn staffers will attest to, can be a laugh riot, we don’t often do things outside […]

GEN Y

March 31, 2008

Hello, all. So, beginning in February, I began teacher a GEN Y (Generation Y) Pre-GED class.  Over the past couple of years we’ve noticed that one of the largest growing groups of students has been those between the ages of 16-26.  These were also the students who dropped out of the program the quickest before […]

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