Behaviour

Student Observation
In every classroom, no matter what grade or institution, there is always the loud and obnoxious student who likes being the center of attention. In my mentorship class, this kid is ‘Jesse’.  Jesse likes being in class but is always speaking across the room to his friends or telling jokes when he should be doing work. I can tell Jesse likes to be in class because he is always present and on time to class, hands in his work on time and always asks or answers questions. Where Jesse is misbehaving is when Dr. Bilaniuk is teaching a lesson and he asks questions to receive a reaction from his friends, when the class is doing an experiment and he fools around trying to make his friends laugh, or when doing work independently and always talking to others very loudly.

The Effect of The El Salvador 2015 Social Justice Experience

I wanted to go on this trip to learn how others deal with their difficulties, to learn about a new culture, to experience something new and lastly to travel to a place I had never been to. Over the course of 8 days, I accomplished each and every one of these. By learning how others dealt with their difficulties I was able to overcome some my own personal difficulties, which did change me. By overcoming these difficulties, I was able to deal with things that have been holding me back. By learning a new culture and its history, I have been able to become more compassionate towards strangers as I now realize that each person has their own set of difficulties that they are battling.

The Education System in El Salvador

I went to El Salvador with this preconceived notion that the people there had less than me. While this was true in some aspects, it was also untrue in others. These ideas were false mainly involved the education system of the El Salvadorans.

To begin with, the actual education system in El Salvador has both differences and similarities than the education system in Canada. Firstly, when we asked René, the representative from Salvaide in Ottawa travelling who travelled with us, how the education system worked he told us his story of moving to Texas and being more advanced than the students.