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Sam Modest
Location:
La Honda, California, USA
University: Bowdoin
Regions of interest: Asia
Skills: work with children, teaching, photography/documentary
Volunteer Activity:
Rainbow Academy June 01, 2010 - September 01, 2010
Stories by this Volunteer
Photography as a teaching tool
Rainbow Academy, by Sam Modest
March 04, 2010 | 1 comment
My name is Sam Modest, I graduated Bowdoin College in May of 2009, and I'm from Medfield, Massachusetts. I spent three months volunteer teaching at the Rainbow Academy in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India this past fall. While the main focus of my work was on spoken English, I sought to provide incentives to learn English through an interdisciplinary classroom environment, in which art and English education melded into one. Before I left for India, I received a seed grant from Omprakash to purchase eight compact digital cameras. While the children learned valuable technical photography skills, they also used the cameras to explore and reflect on their home, their culture, and their personal identities through a "Book About Me" project. I returned to...