What Do You Want to Learn Today?
If you’re curious to get a glimpse into my time in the classroom, I’ve posted three videos of me and the students at my elementary school, El Verano. They’re just super short clips and not edited, but they’ll introduce you to the kids I’ve written about and how they interacted with me. The first two are from the documentary shoot.
1) Competing against the third graders in Around the World, a math game that many of us played in class as kids (32 seconds):
2) Eating lunch with my third grade posse in the cafeteria, talking to a yard duty and the film crew (43 seconds):
3) Touring you around my old kindergarten room and remembering a rare time when a teacher punished me in class (48 seconds):
Thanks to Kim Duong for taking the footage of me with the third graders.
Do these videos bring back any memories of your elementary school days?
At the age of 28, I went back to kindergarten. I needed to get my life back on track, and I wanted to start over from the very beginning.
Over several months, I repeated my education, from kindergarten to college. I spent the months that followed learning how to grow up. I'm still learning.
This site is a place for me to tell my story of education, and for you to tell yours: our experiences past and present, and our vision for how it could look in the future.
— Melia Dicker
Darren
February 24th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Around The World is awesome! I love that competitive rush. Looks like you’ve still got it.