Day 8- Midlands College

  • Today I went to midlands college (mancedo) where I observed all of the different age groups possible. This school is a lot like Quilmes high school because it a private school. I spent time with the 10 year olds making posters for their book fair. Then I went to spend time with the director of the the smaller kids to talk about education systems and some of the events happening in Argentina. She explained to me that argentina was having a economic crisis which I had known about. However, she explained to me that not only are they having a economic crisis but they are having a social crisis. She said many people are fighting about the past president and the current one because they believe someone needs to take the blame. After I went to the junior 5 Spanish class where they were learning about grammar. Each class had the opportunity to ask me questions about anything they wanted to know. I told them about similarities and differences with school in the United States and here in Argentina. One of them being that they call their teachers by their first name. Then I went to the senior 3 class where we worked on analyzing text and essays. They had their own system but I taught them about DDIST for analyzing texts. We also discussed the controversy with the SAT and Cambridge exams. The kids then had be give them autographs and pictures because they say they don’t get to meet a lot of people from the United States.
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