Hi Wendy, 

 

I appreciate the passion and heart-felt desire to help your clients in
creating a better life for themselves...  Certainly, none of us can
expect the GED to completely turn someone's life around.  Rather, this
could be viewed as the first of many steps in living a positive,
productive, fulfilling life.  There is never one pivotal moment in our
lives that defines us-I see it more as a series of experiences that
affect us in positive and negative ways...  We take these experiences to
mean something about who we are, what we can or can't have, whether we
are worthy or unworthy of things (love, success, acceptance).  Earning a
GED is a great opportunity for our students to begin (or continue)
redefining their self-concept or self-perception.   After they have that
paper in hand, they will continue to be confronted with decisions- the
great news is that we have infinite choices...  the challenge is that we
are never "finished" growing.  Perhaps we can present this to our
students in a way that instills hope for the future and a desire to
become a life-long learner? 

 

 

Warm regards,

 

Colleen Krause

Program Manager, Community & Family Strengthening 

International Rescue Committee
5348 University Avenue, Suite 205 B
San Diego, CA 92105

Phone: (619) 641-7510, ext. 242  

FAX:    (619) 641-7520

E-mail:  Colleen.Krause at theIRC.org <mailto:Colleen.Krause at theIRC.org>   

www.theIRC.org <http://www.theirc.org/> 

 

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