Trimis and Savva

I really thought the reading was inspiring and gave me a lot of motivation to involve my future students in the world around them. I hope to be in a school that is located near areas i can involve the children in, to help enrich their learning development and environment. It was a very repetitive reading, but showed a lot on how to observe a class and write about it in depth, and how to help lead a child in enriching their own education. I like that it was in Greece for the fact that we can see the unity of education techniques. I also liked the fact that the teacher was doing such a great job at observing and noting and hearing what the children wanted out of their education and time.  I do know that there is a lot of lack in funding now a-days for schooling, but i believe that we can use our world around us, freely, to teach our children. There's a school in Albany, The Albany Free School, that i know brings the children out into town and allows them to ask questions about their surroundings and experience it first hand. This can be a free activity, a nice stroll around the area in which they live in, to learn more about the history, the interactions we have with transportation, art, communication, business, community, foods etc. You can also use the child's chorotopos to help involve them in helping their surroundings and community. Like bringing them to a soup kitchen, nursing home, museum, community garden, parks or library. The only question i guess i have is; is it safe to bring the children in these uncontrolled environments, and how do you go about getting the consent to doing so? I understand that field trips are expensive and energy consuming, but i do believe there are ways to teach the children about life, surroundings, and education in a cheap, fun manner. My schooling at home did it with having the grounds of the school be placed on nice land with a woods area, pond and wide open fields. There are definitely perks to this setting, but i'd imagine there would be perks to living in a city, or near the beach as well. I believe it's important for a child to involve themselves in their surroundings and understanding what is going on around them as well as the teacher. It's easy to get sucked into our classrooms, or home and forget that there's a big beautiful world out their with lots to offer in enriching our minds and hearts.