Dream Camp Reflection Assignment

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My Reflections on the Dream Camp
During the Spring break I got a chance to volunteer in the Dream Camp at George Vanier Elementary School. Volunteering in the dream camp was learning and an inspiring experience. In this camp I got an opportunity to work with student teachers from PDP elementary module. All the participating students from Grades K-7 seemed very happy and engaged in different activities. The students liked the kinesthetic activities the most. However, some of them enjoyed art and craft more. I found that the elementary school students are much higher in energy than high school students. However, it created problems in classroom management. The classroom management is way more challenging with elementary school students rather than high school students. The camp …show more content…

I was inspired (from the elementary student teachers) to know the amount of work they had to do along with teaching the content; like channelling students’ energy in the right direction, instilling moral values and taking care of their personal problems. For example, some needy students keenly waited for the breakfast and snacks to be served since they couldn’t bring food from home. I was sad to see this but felt happy to serve them at the same time. There was a student with special needs in my group for which my fellow student teachers organized more activities of his interest. For example, he liked painting, arts and crafts instead of playing games in the gym. It seemed to work very well until one afternoon while working in a group he had a meltdown and became violent. All the other students got scared of him. The resource person from the school (who already knew him) immediately jumped in and handled the situation. After this incident I became nervous. Since, I had planned a group activity, ‘ocean in a jar’ for the next day and was worried about his behaviour. Hence, I talked to him in person to find out more about his likes and dislikes. Then, I modified

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