Tanner Fellowship Supports Student Teaching in Peru
Kaleigh White ’18 of Middleton, Massachusetts, was awarded a 2016 Tanner Fellowship and spent five weeks teaching in Trujillo, Peru.
Kaleigh White '18 is pictured children at a Augusto Alva Ascurra public school in Trujillo, Peru.
“Ever since I was little, I have wanted to grow up and be an elementary school teacher,” said Kaleigh, who is also a member of the Saints women’s soccer team. “And, I knew that one day I wanted to teach in a foreign country in some capacity.”
She spent five weeks in May and June, 2016, in Trujillo, Peru, teaching English to children between the ages of 9 to 15 at Augusto Alva Ascurra public school. There, she got to create lesson plans and volunteer at a local orphanage, helping with homework, tutoring girls English and playing lots of soccer games with the boys.
The Tanner Fellowship was created in 1995 by the friends and family of Tanner Cornwell and encourages students to make a positive and creative mark on the world.
“The Tanner Fellowship has allowed me to have an opportunity to do something that will always have an impact on me and my future as a teacher,” Kaleigh said. “My students and the children at the orphanage in Peru taught me so much more than I could ever teach them.”
