INSIGHTS FROM STUDENT WORK
Children from the elementary school wrote essay responses to
the following essay prompt: Did you know that our school is working
with [university], and how do you feel about that? Some of the younger
children drew pictures of activities they had done with university
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mentors and other university volunteers who were on school
grounds and in classrooms. Some of the younger children wrote
‘‘I like the [university] teachers.’’ Lower elementary grade children
wrote about their experiences with the university undergraduate physical
education and art majors volunteering at the school: ‘‘I have learned a
lot from [the university]. . . . We learned how to play . . .how to do exercise
. . . how to jump over the rope and throw balls . . . I like them comeing (sic) to
our calss (sic)’’ (personal communication, first-grade student, 2006).