|
 Interested in an awesome summer cultural exchange experience? We have
two summer programs in Mexico. Maestros is an English program for teachers working in the public school system in Mexico.
A Sueños Compartidos volunteer leads a four-week intensive English workshop (20 hours/week) primarily focusing on conversation/listening/pronunciation.
Class size is up to twenty students. Our volunteer teachers receive meals and housing from the teacher group in Mexico.
Niños is a summer program for elementary school students.
A group of five Sueños Compartidos volunteers works together to plan and present a three-week summer camp experience
to students in grades one through six. The camp activities will include art, dance, drama, science, sports, games...
and, of course, English! Including a three-day planning period prior to the camp start date, Niños is a three-week
program. The volunteers will receive homestay and meal arrangements with local families. For both programs, classes are Monday-Friday, and weekends are free to relax,
travel, and practice your Spanish! Mexico is a beautiful country, and it is very easy and affordable to travel within
the country. Additionally, our programs are concentrated in the central highlands of Mexico, so you will have the opportunity
to meet up with other Sueños Compartidos volunteers for the weekend... or you can travel with friends from your teaching
community, or just get on a bus and go! If you want to get an idea of what it is like to travel in Mexico, pick up a
Lonely Planet Mexico at the bookstore and browse through!
While our program is open to volunteers from just about anywhere, we are
particularly interested in public school teachers in high Latino-population schools the United States. As the Latino
student population continues to expand in the US, developing a knowledge of the culture of the Latino community is a critical
component of teacher training, and there is simply no better way to gain this knowledge than by spending a month in Mexico
with Sueños Compartidos! As a volunteer, you will experience Mexico - the food, the music, the geography,
and the people!
Program dates are July 13-July 29, 2011 for Niños and July
13-August 5, 2011 for Maestros. The Niños locations are various towns in the states of Guanajuato and Michoacán;
the Maestros locations are various cities in central and southern Mexico. We will begin the application process on March
15, 2011. In the meantime, feel free to email us if you would like to introduce yourself and begin a conversation about
the summer programs! |
|
|