ECDC Service Project

For my service project, I will be working in the ECDC. Things have not exactly worked out as expected so far since the children have had other commitments to tend to. In the mean time, I have been working on planning and preparing to meet with the students.

An important part of this service project is sharpening our inquiry-based learning skills. I need to make sure that when I meet with the children in the ECDC, I am letting them do their project while I am only there to oversee and spur them on in the right direction. Because of this, I have been preparing many open-ended questions to ask the students so that they can describe to me what they imagine their project to become.

My job is a little different than the people who are working at CCMS because I will not be working with the students outside of the classroom and will not have parental involvement. Since we have not been able to meet the children yet, we have been trying to set up as much of the project as we can without the initial introductions. In order to make our first meeting go smoothly and efficiently, I have already set up the blog space for Ms Reynolds' class so that as soon as the children describe their project ideas to us, we can blog about them on the various blogs set up for the different animal habitats.

Although we have gotten off to a slow start, I think that the service project in the ECDC will be a great success. We will get an opportunity to work with multiple students and help them with their projects while also perfecting our technology skills that we have learned throughout the course. I look forward to meeting the students next week.