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PosTA students were assigned first hand observations and service learning field
trips to areas in the Anchorage community that needed student volunteers. The
field trips helped the students to select their areas of interest.
In order to match students to volunteer agencies, they were asked to complete
three job applications and three job interviews. Then students were hired and
placed at job sites.
During the spring semester, the PosTA students worked every Thursday afternoon.
Three students were placed in Wendler’s special needs classes and other
students were placed at locations near Wendler . Some of the locations:
Providence Horizon House, Serendipity Adult Day Care Center, Head Start,
Brother Francis Shelter, and Lake Otis Elementary classrooms.
PosTA students also completed service projects:
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Worked with 4-H Club to send 3,000 books to ten Alaskan villages
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Donated canned goods and toiletries to the Harbor Inn and the Rescue Mission
Wendler was given a State of Alaska Learn and Serve grant worth $4,000! With
that money, the students mailed out applications to Anchorage School District
middle schools and elementary schools enlisting their ideas for their own
service projects.
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As applications came back in, students had to make important decisions as to who
would receive the monies. Service Learning Grants were awarded to the following
schools:
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Central Middle school for their work with Habitat for Humanity
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Mears Middle School for two projects: one to teach school age children about
drug prevention and one to teach better family communications.
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Wendler Middle School for Alaskan Book Tub project and a Book Cart project for
the seventh and eighth graders.
Students continued to work right up until the end of the year awarding grant
monies.
It was a very rewarding first year for the PosTA students at Wendler. We look
forward to the PosTA class continuing in the 2002- 2003 school year!
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