{"id":63,"date":"2015-01-15T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education\/?p=63"},"modified":"2024-02-12T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:30:05","slug":"spc-education-student-featured-in-national-e-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/spc-education-student-featured-in-national-e-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC Education student featured in national e-newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0 Shannon Rapp, SPC Early Elementary Education student
\nPublished in the December 2014 edition of Great Shape! Inc<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\n“Teaching has always been a dream of mine. It\u2019s in my blood because both of my parents are teachers. I grew up volunteering in elementary classrooms and loving every minute of it. When it came time for college, I had no doubt in that I would be an Elementary Education major. While in the Education Program at St. Petersburg College, I have been able to see my passion for teaching grow each and every day. I recently had the opportunity to go to teach in Jamaica through SPC and Great Shape Inc. I went into this experience with absolutely no idea what to expect. Little did I know how much this trip would impact not only my career, but the way I live my life. The children in Jamaica showed me how much they loved living their lives, even with having so little. Every day I was blown away by how respectful and caring these children treated the volunteers and all they wanted to do for us. I would stop and think about how I\u2019m living my life back home and how fortunate I am. I was amazed at how these students would come to school, wearing no shoes, and be running around on hard rocks and sticks, but still managed to keep a huge smile on their faces. My last day was an emotional day to say the least. I didn’t want to let go of their warm and loving hugs but I told the kids, \u201cThis is not a goodbye, this is a see you later!\u201d I know that in my future classroom, I will strive to have that \u201cone love\u201d mindset, just as the students in Jamaica were able to teach me.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Lear more about the St. Petersburg College, College of Education Study Abroad trip to Jamaica. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By:\u00a0 Shannon Rapp, SPC Early Elementary Education student Published in the December 2014 edition of Great Shape! Inc. “Teaching has always been a dream of mine. It\u2019s in my blood because both of my parents are teachers. I grew up volunteering in elementary classrooms and loving every minute of it. When it came time for … Continue reading SPC Education student featured in national e-newsletter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-education","category-elementary-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/education-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}