The international projects team at Niagara College hosted a group of colleagues from the Caribbean region (Jamaica, Dominica and Guyana) and invited me to attend. They manage this project - funded by the Canadian government through Colleges and Institutes Canada - together with the projects team of Seneca College. So I got to see both my previous teams in action. Holly led a good session on inclusion and curriculum development.
The focus of the project is on eco-tourism program delivery. Two of the NC teachers explained how they developed new curriculum for "learn to camp". I was happily surprised how innovative and creative the teachers are with their new course delivery. The students - more than half of them coming from around the world where camping in many places is not very common - get real hands-on experience and need to make one minute Instagram videos of their work. The tents and camping materials are stored in the college's "sustainability office". So many new positive developments!
After lunch, Sean had to show me his new car. Something that was twenty something years on his bucket list. Afterwards I joined the group on a walk through the NC wetlands, a living laboratory for students. The Daniel J. Patterson campus is a unique place in a beautiful setting.
It was a very nice day for me. Sweet memories, fun to participate in some of the conversations again, learning about a small country such as Dominica (population 70,000), great to see some of the former colleagues again and nice weather for the cycling back home afterwards.
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