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| International students from Gardner-Webb University, from left, Christal
Ransome, Chloe Boucquemont, Steve Jones, and Ronia Hutterli, visited
Fallston Elementary students for cultural awareness day. Photo: Shelby Star |
The daylong event — coordinated in part by GWU Assistant Director
of International Programs Gail Peace — featured presentations by
university international students Steve Jones of Great Britain, Ronia
Hutterli of Switzerland, and Christal Ransome of Trinidad and Tobago.
Chloe Boucquemont of France, a one-year teaching assistant in the
Department of World Languages, also represented GWU.
Students in kindergarten through fourth grade took part in the
event, which was coordinated by Rebecca Lane, the English as a Second
Language Coordinator for Fallston and Casar elmentary schools and Burns
Middle School]. She began the day as a way to help students learn about
and appreciate cultural differences among a variety of groups.
Catherine Frailey is a fourth-grade teacher at Fallston, and she
thinks students benefit from participating in the awareness day in a
variety of ways. “We can connect ideas we’ve read in both fiction and
non-fiction to what we learn about a country during a presentation,”
Frailey explained. “For instance, we’ve talked about the lost colony, so
when we saw Chloe’s presentation, the kids realized it’s real. It’s not
just what they’ve seen in a book.”
Source: Shelby Star
