To these children, there’s more to the camp environment than just learning. Being here they’re enhancing their social skills, making their time at the camp more enjoyable and fun. This morning SEEK leadership directors Woodrow Prevard and Angel Pickens visited classrooms to evaluate how the mentors run their class and observe their day to day relationships with the students. They had the students to play an improving game where they mimic one of their class mentors without telling who they were acting as. The classrooms quickly became excited and filled with laughter as the students one by one came up acting as their mentors with different dance moves and funny impersonations. The bond between the students and mentors is quite remarkable. Over the past three weeks they’ve build an essential relationship which is vital when teaching children. “We call them mentors and not teachers because they are looked at as a role model for the children.” Pickens explained. “We are here to encourage and motivate them and with that a strong relationship is highly important to be able to connect with the students.”
Article and photos by: Alexis Thames, Lancaster ISD Communications Summer Intern
Article and photos by: Alexis Thames, Lancaster ISD Communications Summer Intern