Student Teachers

In addition to gaining invaluable curriculum planning, teaching, and research experience, the full immersion of Smith student teachers into Belizean culture offers experiences that cannot be obtained from classrooms and textbooks alone. Daily life in Belize is different in many ways from that in the United States, from communication to grocery shopping, to childcare and transportation. The relative lack of immediate access to technology challenges student teachers to be resourceful while encouraging them to utilize the natural setting of Ambergris Caye in planning and executing the Coral Reef Ed-Ventures Program.

Summer 2007

Left to right: Stephanie Moore ’07, geology major, physics minor; Maya Wei-Haas '09, geology major, chemistry minor; Andrea Gohl '08, geology major; Loretta Cheung ’09, government major, environmental science and policy minor; Penny Luo ’08, biology major, marine science minor; and Whitney Dorer '07, psychology major, environmental science and policy minor.

Summer 2006

Left to right: Emily Tyner '06 biological sciences major, marine science and policy minor; Whitney Dorer '07 psychology major and environmental science and policy minor; Sharon Beauregard AC '07, educational psychology; Katie Morrice '07 biological sciences major, marine science and policy minor; Kelsey Winsor '07J geology; Erin Benger '07 biological sciences major, environmental science and policy minor.

Summer 2005

Left to right: Katie Marlowe '05 education and child study; Maria Lazaro '07 education and child study; Emily Tyner '06 biological sciences major, marine science and policy minor; Elizabeth Thomas '05 geology; Ashley Barton '07 education and child study; Nora Beem '05 biological sciences major and environmental science and policy minor.

Summer 2004

Left to right: Emily Tyner '06 biological sciences, Beth Callaghan '04 biological sciences, Michael Tattan '04 education MA, Erica Nichols '04, and Irma Torres-Leon '05 biological sciences major and environmental science and policy minor.

Summer 2003

Left to right: Beth Callaghan AC '04 biological sciences; Lisa Rivera AC, Alicia Simonti AC geology, and Daryn Sirota '05 education and child study.

Summer 2002

From right to left: Anna Marchefka '02, Beth Callaghan '04 biological sciences, Susan Vincent '02 biological sciences, Jocelyn Brown-Saracino '03 biological sciences.

Summer 2001

Back row, left to right: Catya Harrold (formerly Cathy Parsons) '01 biological sciences major, marine science minor; Kate Buckman '01 geology major, marine science minor; Alexandra Chitty '01 biological sciences major. Front row, left to right: Kimberly Cheney '02 and Mattie Byrd McHold '03J.