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About the project
Queen Alexandra Elementary invites you to lead and support interactive projects throughout the entire school.
As a volunteer, you will work closely with students and teachers from one or two classrooms to help facilitate fun project activities using an integrated arts, science, and social sciences approach. Over the course of the three days, you will help the students with their planned activities that may include field trips, lesson plans, art, drama, and physical exercise. The themed projects will focus on sustainability, water conservation, environmental issues, social responsibility, outdoor education, art, and children’s literature.
By the end of the three days, Queen Alexandra students will have built positive relationships with you and be open to future possibilities for themselves. As inner city kids can often have a narrow outlook for their own futures, the hope is that by engaging with you through interactive activities, the students might begin to imagine themselves continuing on to post-secondary education.
This is a whole school community project. The UBC student team will be working directly with students on a variety of interactive projects.
Scheduling
| Programming | Dates |
| Kick-off Orientation | Saturday, February 8 from 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm |
| Project |
Tuesday, February 18 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Wednesday, February 19 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm Thursday, February 20 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm |
What you will do
- Create a safe and enjoyable learning environment for students
- Facilitate engaging activities with support from teachers
- Help foster positive growth for literacy by igniting curiosity
- Role-model responsible and respectful behavior in the classroom
We anticipate that the UBC students team will be energetic, enthusiastic and open to fully participating and leading the activities while making connections with the QA students. This project requires their active participation, it is not a passive project.
Qualifications
- Enthusiasm and interest in working with children (ages 5-12)
- Ability to adapt to new experiences with a positive mind-set
- Ability to exercise tact and discretion and to manage potentially difficult situations
- Willingness to act as an effective role-model, and a UBC ambassador
- A passion for any of the following topics is considered an asset: supporting aboriginal youth, environmental studies (biodiversity, oceans, climate change), fine arts, and social responsibility
Placement location
Queen Alexandra Elementary
Note
There is a possibility of going off site for a field trip within the Lower Mainland
Queen Alexandra Elementary
1300 E Broadway St
(at Clark Drive)
Vancouver, BC V5N 5P2
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Contact us
Centre for Community Engaged Learning
Centre for Community Engaged Learning
Telephone: 604 822 1678
Web: Centre for Community Engaged LearningCIRS Building, Room 2131
2260 West Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Canada