{"id":5418,"date":"2020-03-30T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:40:07","slug":"pre-departure-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2020\/03\/pre-departure-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-departure Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Going into this trip I really am trying to not have any preset notions about what we\u2019re going to experience. I think my focus is going to be absorbed every second but I want to learn what can while I\u2019m there. I have no idea when or if I will ever be back to this area of the world. I know some of my travel-mates are concerned about being able to understand accents, but I have family that have super strong accents from foreign countries and I\u2019ve talked with them since I was a baby so that\u2019s not a huge concern for me. I am super pumped to see what\u2019s different and similar about the elementary school in Dumfries. In my head I think that the elementary schools will be nicer than what we are used to. I\u2019m curious about how the students will pick things up and how much detail we can go into with our lessons. I know the schools tend to focus more on growing the students as a person, not necessarily testing and academics at this age. I want to see how they implement behavior management techniques and keep the kids attention. I\u2019m wondering if it will be hard for students to transition into our model of teaching or if it will be hard for us to adjust to what they are expecting. I\u2019m not sure what to expect for the culture over there. I don\u2019t know too much about Scottish culture in the first place. I know there will be some differences but I\u2019m not sure about the specifics. Overall, I really am looking forward to being able to grow in how I teach and become a more informed global citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going into this trip I really am trying to not have any preset notions about what we\u2019re going to experience. I think my focus is going to be absorbed every second but I want to learn what can while I\u2019m there. I have no idea when or if I will ever be back to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"featured_media":5420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,85,9,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-led","category-scotland","category-spring-break","category-youth-engagement-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}