My Summer Job

So I’ve accepted a seasonal job for this summer, which I hope will be quite interesting and fulfilling. If not, at least it’s full time so it pays the bills…but I think it has a lot of potential to interest me. I’ll be a migrant tutor for the Indiana Department of Education Language Minority and Migrant Programs (say that three times fast). Basically, I’ll be tutoring students anywhere from kindergarten to age 21 who are in families classified as migrants. For the purposes of the state of Indiana, that means that their family has moved in the last three years in search of agricultural work.

So, I could be doing anything from helping an eight-year-old catch up in reading, math, or learning English after having moved four times the previous year, to helping a high school student get an extra credit, to helping a 21-year-old working full time get his or her GED. The program is not compulsory, so I will probably have students who mostly want to learn.

I’m excited to get to use my Spanish some more and to help a community of children that gets the short end of the stick in the educational world. I’m also a little anxious about how I will deal with the irregular schedule, lots of driving, and emotionally handling the poor living conditions of many families. I’ll keep you updated…..