Why do teachers at Mott Hall place such emphasis on student presentations?
We feel that it’s important for children to feel confident and to be able to get up in front of their classrooms and talk about a social issue that they feel passionate about. We tell them that they’re ambassadors of Mott Hall and that not only do we want them to do well here at Mott Hall but to really engage them in different types of activities. Where they go to the local universities and make presentations about topics that they feel strongly about, to go to a nursing home and be able to make presentations to senior citizens, to be able to go to their local schools in the neighborhoods that they work and make presentations to younger children. And let them know how important it is for them to read, how important it is for them to do well in school so that younger children will understand that they have to work very, very hard in school so that they can go on and do well in high school and in college.
